
Acting
Born September 19, 1885 · Berlin, Germany
His father was the actor Emanuel Reicher, born in Galicia, then part of the Kingdom of Austria. Emanuel married firstly the opera singer Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann: their son was the actor Frank Reicher. After Hedwig's death, he married the actress Lina Harf and the couple had three children: Hedwiga Reicher, Ernst, and Elly, who all worked as actors. At Continental-Kunstfilm's studios Ernst Reicher acted, wrote scripts and directed films from 1912 to 1918. In December 1912 he starred in Vorglühen des Balkanbrandes, directed by Joe May. He wrote, directed and starred in two films: Das Werk in February 1913, and Die Statue in 1914, which was banned by the Berlin police censor until 1919. Starting in winter 1913/14, he wrote and starred in the first three of the 'Stuart Webbs' detective films, a popular detective series directed by Joe May for Continental. For more than a decade after 1914, Reicher continued to write and star as Stuart Webbs, and was closely identified with the part. It was not until 1918 that Reicher turned to other topics. On the first of April 1919, he moved the headquarters of his film company to Munich. At the beginning of the twenties he suffered a serious car accident, in which he suffered a vertebral and fractured skull. Only from 1926 he appeared again on the screen, but he could no longer build on previous successes. After the seizure of power in 1933 by the National Socialists, Reicher emigrated to Prague, where he fell into obscurity. His last, tiny role in the 1936 French-language remake of The Golem was cut out of the final version. Later that year, he committed suicide by hanging in a Prague hotel room.

The Golem
1936

Csárdás
1935

Rasputin, Demon of the Women
1932
One Night at the Grand Hotel
1931

The Theft of the Mona Lisa
1931

The Squeeker
1931

Road to Rio
1931

Haus Nummer 17
1928

The Armored Vault
1926

Das Geheimnis einer Stunde
1925
Das Geheimnis von Schloß Elmshöh
1925
Das schöne Abenteuer
1924

Das Rattenloch
1921

Camera obscura
1921

Der Sprung ins Dunkle
1920
Die Brüder von Sankt Parasitus
1919

Die Pagode
1919

Das Buch Esther
1919
Die Geheimnisvollen Briefe
1919
Das Gestohlene Modell
1919
Der Stier von Saldanha
1918

Der Eisenbahnmarder
1918
Die Geisterjagd
1918
Die Diamantenstiftung
1917
Die Peitsche
1916

Der Hilferuf
1916

Der Brieföffner
1916
Der Amateur
1916
Der Spuk im Hause des Professors
1915
Stuart Webbs: Die Toten erwachen
1915

Der gestreifte Domino
1915
Eines Mannes Schatten
1915
Das Mitternachtsschiff
1915