

Cast & creator
Best known for Adventures of Superman, King Kong, Samson and Delilah
Frank Reicher (December 2, 1875 – January 19, 1965) was a German-born American stage and film actor, director and producer. He is best known for playing Captain Englehorn in the 1933 film King Kong. Reicher made his Broadway debut the year he came to America playing Lord Tarquin in Harrison Fiske's production of Becky Sharp, a comedy by Langdon Mitchell based on William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. His early career was spent in legitimate theater on and off Broadway. He was head of the Brooklyn Stock Company when Jacob P. Adler performed The Merchant of Venice in Yiddish while the rest of the cast remained in English. Reicher was for a number of years affiliated with the Little Theatre on West Forty-Fourth Street as an actor and manager and would remain active on Broadway as actor, director or producer well into the 1920s. On stage, Reicher starred in such plays as the first Broadway production of Georg Kaiser's From Morning to Midnight (as the cashier), and the original production of Percy MacKaye's The Scarecrow (in the title role). Frank Reicher is probably more familiar to modern audiences as a supporting character actor in films. He began his cinema career with an uncredited role in the 1915 film The Case for Becky and would go on to work in over two hundred motion pictures. He is probably best remembered for playing the character of Captain Englehorn in King Kong and The Son of Kong, and for his work in such films as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950). His last Hollywood role was in the very first theatrical Superman movie, Superman and the Mole Men, in 1951. Frank Reicher died at a hospital in Inglewood, California, aged 89. He was survived by his sister and a brother. His interment was at Inglewood Park Cemetery.
Also known as: George H. Lloyd, Frank Reichert, Franz Reicher
232
film credits
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television credits
190
1914–2021 · acting roles
6.6
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Across film & television
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Captain Englehorn
1933
Village Barber
1949
Polish Official (uncredited)
1942
Frederick Ullman
1944Director
1918
Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
1939
Captain Englehorn
1933
Maasdam
1947
The Cook - Spy
1931
Creditor Agent (uncredited)
1936
Police Official (uncredited)
1940
Doctor (uncredited)
1947
Stage Director
1937
Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
1938
Hospital Superintendent
1951
Duc de Morny (uncredited)
1939
Mr. X
1934
Lyman
1944
Self - (archive footage)
2021
Robinson
1937
Admiral (uncredited)
1943
Danny
1934
Professor Matthew Norman
1942
Joe Valerie
1933
Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
1946
Dr. Pfeiffer
1936
Self
1914
Prof. Matthew Norman
1944
President
1940
Barrett
1934
Darius 'Doc' Green
1950
Henry Strand (uncredited)
1936
General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
1943
Don Diego Mendoza
1939
Old Man
1940Director
1916
Dr. Larson
1937
Captain
1941
Board Member (uncredited)
1941
Pavloff
1937
Prefect of Police
1938
Father Bly (uncredited)
1945
Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
1941
Dr. Rose (uncredited)
1945
Director
1919
Dr. Thomas Bigelow
1942
Coachman to Paris
1936
Professor Meiklejohn
1936
Doctor (uncredited)
1936
Kurtz
1937
Dr. R.A. Jackson
1935
Dr. Carl Cooper
1934
Director
1919
Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
1937
Casino Attendant (uncredited)
1944
The Professor - Henchman
1938
Herr Vanderkloot
1935
Coroner
1935
Arresting Detective (uncredited)
1931
Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
1943
The Eye Specialist
1928
Prof. Kendall
1940
2nd Assistant Director
1935
Sneath
1942
Magistrate
1942
Dr. Peters
1936
Assistant Coroner (uncredited)
1935
Dr. Hoffenreich
1936
Screenplay
1930
Pharmacist
1939
Max Bolen
1934
Philip Kenneson, Sr.
1945
Count Eckhardt
1951
President of Assize Court
1939

Dialogue
1930
Herr Winterstein
1934
Horace Darwin
1937
Director
1921
Producer
1921
Director
1917
Second Doctor (uncredited)
1938
Dr. Coate
1936
Auctioneer
1934
Friehof
1940
Professor Schmidt
1944
Doctor Heimkin
1936
Garfinkle
1933
Ernst's Father
1937
Thaddeus Quentin
1942
Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
1941
Professor Krantz
1926
Richards
1934
Dr. Jaipur
1935
Dr. MacKenzie
1948
Police Commissioner
1934
Dr. Ferenc Waller
1938
Dr. Amos Thornton
1939
Baron von Bissing
1939
Franz Reinhardt
1934
Director
1917
Producer
1917
Doctor
1946
Rudick (uncredited)
1943
Doctor
1948
General Changarnier
1938
Carl - gang engineer
1937

Writer
1929
Wiley Henderson
1941
Dr. Ballou
1944
Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
1936
The Minister
1947
Fritz
1942
Director
1919
Producer
1919
Dr. Mathews
1939
Rudolph Brehmer
1937
Dr. Timmons
1942
Milton Jorny
1929
Director
1929
Count Zellner
1928
Colonel Von Diegel
1936
Man in Charge of Duel
1939
Cathcart
1949
Theo Drukker (uncredited)
1936
Director
1916
Director
1916
Von Stein
1935

Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
1941
Police Official (uncredited)
1938
Doctor
1934
Dr. Trenk
1935
French General
1936
Dr. Proser
1939
Professor Baumer
1941
Dr. Paul Luke
1936
Von Cram
1937
Edvaard Kreindling
1941
(uncredited)
1939
Director
1915
Dr. Rochard
1935
William Riker, the Butler
1945
Director
1931
Aristide
1933
Dr. Stegg
1933
Dr. Esterhazy
1941
Doctor (uncredited)
1934
The Schoolmaster
1928
Old Weaver (uncredited)
1933
Holtzmann
1931
Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
1935
Rainer
1937
Coroner
1945
Razor the Barber
1948Director
1918
Dr. Shumaker
1939
General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
1930
Plotsky (Uncredited)
1932
Napoleon's Barber
1928
Jason Cragmyle
1946Director
1915
Dr. Hartman
1943
Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
1935
Henry Bremmer
1942
Herr Hauptman
1933
Warden in Germany (uncredited)
1932
Simmons
1928
Baron
1928
Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
1939
Dr. C.M. Garvey
1938
Dr. Crattan
1940
Abraham Schultz (uncredited)
1934
German Hospital Chief
1931
The General
1932
Director
1915
Governor Felipe Vega
1936
Headmaster
1936
Dr. James
1935
Pop Martin
1937
Dr. Wells
1944
Doctor
1934
Doctor Hartman
1938
Harper
1945
Director
1916
Presenter
1916
Dr. Greenleaf
1940
Francesco Tomasulo
1931
Linden, Sr.
1943
German Soldier (uncredited)
1943
Duke of Brocklehurst
1930
H.W. Randall
1947
Director
1921
Jozsef
1937
Pop, apartment concierge
1947
Randall
1929
Director
1917
Eben McClelland
1937
Director
1917
State's Attorney
1929

Michael Hasdon
1946
Director
1916
Rankin
1932
Gen. de Beaujolais
1928
Major
1948
Planetarium Lecturer
1936
Jones
1939
Director
1917
Director
1915
Mendietta Garcia
1939
Dr. Stecker
1929
Director
1919
Vincent Long II
1937
Doctor
1940
Director
1917
Director
1915
Director
1917
Dr. Larson
1936
Director
1916
Director
1918

Director
1915
Karl Ernst Haushofer
1943
Director
1917Director
1916
Director
1917Judge
1945
Director
1916
Director
1919
Director
1917