Personal Info
Birth date
1875-12-02 (149 Years)
Day of death
1965-01-19
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
Also known as
George H. Lloyd
Frank Reichert
Franz Reicher
Frank Reicher
Biography
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.
Filmography
Adventures of Superman
6.67
Overview:
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."Samson and Delilah
6.511
Overview:
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
6.7
Overview:
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.King Kong
7.6
Overview:
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.The Invisible Ray
6.3
Overview:
Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.Ninotchka
7.503
Overview:
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.Camille
6.993
Overview:
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.House of Frankenstein
6.017
Overview:
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.Four Sons
7.227
Overview:
A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.Letter of Introduction
5.667
Overview:
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.To Be or Not to Be
7.835
Overview:
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.Superman and the Mole Men
5.3
Overview:
Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, furry people who then come to the surface at night to look around. The fact that they glow in the dark scares the townfolk, who form a mob, led by the vicious Luke Benson, intent on killing the strange people. Only Superman has a chance to prevent this tragedy.Underground
6.1
Overview:
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.Stage Door
7
Overview:
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel.Dr. Cyclops
6.2
Overview:
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.Life Returns
4.2
Overview:
A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently deceased dog.The Son of Kong
5.4
Overview:
Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.Monsieur Verdoux
7.697
Overview:
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.Juarez
6.478
Overview:
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.Anthony Adverse
5.8
Overview:
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.One Foot in Heaven
6.605
Overview:
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.Home in Oklahoma
6.2
Overview:
In this Roy Rogers entry, featuring a song written by Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner (making him and Lousiania's Jimmie Davis and Texas' W.E. "Pappy" O'Daniel possibly the only state governors to write songs used in a western), Flying U ranch owner Sam Talbot is killed by a fall from a horse. St. Louis reporter Connie Edwards comes to check a rumor that he might have been murdered. She goes to Roy Rogers, editor of the local newspaper, and he takes her to the reading of Talbot's will. The ranch is left to Talbot's 12-year-old ward, Duke Lowery, much to the dismay of Talbot's niece, Jan Holloway. After some attempts on Duke's life, Roy finally proves that Jan, Steve McClory and coroner Jim Judnick had Talbot killed and are conspiring to do the same for Duke, making Jan the last heir.Mata Hari
6.2
Overview:
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.Topaze
6.143
Overview:
An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
7.2
Overview:
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from its extremely resentful leader.The Gorgeous Hussy
5.3
Overview:
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.The Devil-Doll
6.8
Overview:
Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When the scientist dies during the escape, Lavond heads for his lab, using the shrinking technology to get even with those who framed him and vindicate himself in both the public eye and the eyes of his daughter, Lorraine. When an accident leaves a crazed assistant dead, however, Lavond must again make an escape.The Story of Louis Pasteur
6.8
Overview:
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.All This, and Heaven Too
7.1
Overview:
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.The Case of the Howling Dog
6.5
Overview:
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.Acting
1952Adventures of Superman (1 Episode) as Unknown
1951Superman and the Mole Men as Hospital Superintendent
1951The Lady and the Bandit as Count Eckhardt
1950Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye as Darius 'Doc' Green
1949Samson and Delilah as Village Barber
1949Barbary Pirate as Cathcart
1948The Gallant Blade as Major
1948I, Jane Doe as Doctor
1948Carson City Raiders as Razor the Barber
1948Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad as Dr. MacKenzie
1947Escape Me Never as The Minister
1947Monsieur Verdoux as Doctor (uncredited)
1947The Secret Life of Walter Mitty as Maasdam
1947Violence as Pop, apartment concierge
1947Yankee Fakir as H.W. Randall
1946Home in Oklahoma as Jason Cragmyle
1946Sister Kenny as Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
1946The Shadow Returns as Michael Hasdon
1946A Guy Could Change as Doctor
1945The Tiger Woman as Coroner
1945Voice of the Whistler as Dr. Rose (uncredited)
1945Phantoms, Inc. as Philip Kenneson, Sr.
1945A Medal for Benny as Father Bly (uncredited)
1945The Jade Mask as Harper
1945The Strange Mr. Gregory as William Riker, the Butler
1944The Big Bonanza as Dr. Ballou
1944House of Frankenstein as Frederick Ullman (uncredited)
1944The Conspirators as Casino Attendant (uncredited)
1944The Mummy's Ghost as Prof. Matthew Norman
1944Gildersleeve's Ghost as Dr. Wells
1944Address Unknown as Professor Schmidt
1944Captain America as Lyman
1943Tornado as Linden, Sr.
1943Bomber's Moon as Dr. Hartman
1943Background to Danger as Rudick - the Assasin
1943Above Suspicion as Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
1943Mission to Moscow as General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
1943Plan for Destruction as Karl Ernst Haushofer
1942The Mummy's Tomb as Professor Matthew Norman
1942Night Monster as Dr. Timmons
1942Scattergood Survives a Murder as Thaddeus Quentin
1942Secret Enemies as Henry Bremmer
1942The Gay Sisters as Dr. Thomas Bigelow
1942Beyond the Blue Horizon as Sneath
1942The Mystery of Marie Roget as Magistrate
1942To Be or Not to Be as Polish Official (uncredited)
1942Nazi Agent as Fritz
1941Dangerously They Live as Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
1941One Foot in Heaven as Board Member (uncredited)
1941Underground as Professor Baumer
1941Shining Victory as Dr. Esterhazy
1941The Nurse's Secret as Wiley Henderson
1941They Dare Not Love as Captain
1941Flight from Destiny as Edvaard Kreindling
1941The Face Behind the Mask as Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
1941Four Mothers as Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
1940Sky Murder as Dr. Crattan
1940The Man I Married as Friehof
1940The Lady in Question as President
1940South to Karanga as Dr. Greenleaf
1940All This, and Heaven Too as Police Official (uncredited)
1940Typhoon as Doctor
1940Dr. Cyclops as Prof. Kendall
1940Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet as Old Man
1939Everything Happens at Night as Pharmacist
1939South of the Border as Don Diego Mendoza
1939Our Neighbors - The Carters as Dr. Proser
1939Ninotchka as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
1939Sabotage as (uncredited)
1939The Escape as Dr. Shumaker
1939Nurse Edith Cavell as Baron von Bissing
1939The Magnificent Fraud as Mendietta Garcia
1939Juarez as Duc de Morny (uncredited)
1939Sons of Liberty as Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
1939Mystery of the White Room as Dr. Amos Thornton
1939Never Say Die as Man in Charge of Duel
1939Society Smugglers as Jones
1939Woman Doctor as Dr. Mathews
1939Devil's Island as President of Assize Court
1938The Girl Downstairs as Police Official (uncredited)
1938Torchy Gets Her Man as The Professor - Henchman
1938Suez as General Changarnier
1938Letter of Introduction as Second Doctor (uncredited)
1938I'll Give a Million as Prefect of Police
1938The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse as Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
1938City Streets as Dr. Ferenc Waller
1938Rascals as Dr. C.M. Garvey
1938Prison Nurse as Doctor Hartman
1937Prescription for Romance as Jozsef
1937Beg, Borrow or Steal as Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
1937Stage Door as Stage Director
1937Fit for a King as Kurtz
1937On Such a Night as Horace Darwin
1937West Bound Limited as Pop Martin
1937The Emperor's Candlesticks as Pavloff
1937Midnight Madonna as Vincent Long II
1937The Road Back as Ernst's Father
1937Night Key as Carl - gang engineer
1937Espionage as Von Cram
1937The Great O'Malley as Dr. Larson
1937Stolen Holiday as Rainer
1937Man Of The People as Robinson
1937The Mighty Treve as Eben McClelland
1937Under Cover of Night as Rudolph Brehmer
1936Camille as Creditor Agent (uncredited)
1936Sinner Take All as Theo Drukker (uncredited)
1936Laughing at Trouble as Dr. Larson
1936Along Came Love as Planetarium Lecturer
1936The Gorgeous Hussy as Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
1936Star for a Night as Doctor Heimkin
1936Anthony Adverse as Coachman to Paris
1936Second Wife as Headmaster
1936Girls' Dormitory as Dr. Hoffenreich
1936The Devil-Doll as Doctor (uncredited)
1936Under Two Flags as French General
1936The Ex-Mrs. Bradford as Henry Strand (uncredited)
1936Murder on a Bridle Path as Dr. Peters (Gregg's)
1936Till We Meet Again as Colonel Von Diegel
1936The Country Doctor as Dr. Paul Luke
1936Sutter's Gold as Governor Felipe Vega
1936The Story of Louis Pasteur as Dr. Pfeiffer
1936The Invisible Ray as Professor Meiklejohn
1936The Murder of Dr. Harrigan as Dr. Coate
1935Magnificent Obsession as Dr. Rochard
1935The Great Impersonation as Dr. Trenk
1935Kind Lady as Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
1935The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo as 2nd Assistant Director
1935Rendezvous as Dr. R.A. Jackson
1935Charlie Chan in Egypt as Dr. Jaipur
1935Star of Midnight as Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
1935The Florentine Dagger as Von Stein
1935A Dog of Flanders as Herr Vanderkloot
1935Straight from the Heart as Coroner
1935Life Returns as Dr. James
1934Mills of the Gods as Barrett
1934Secret of the Chateau as Auctioneer
1934I Am a Thief as Max Bolen
1934The Case of the Howling Dog as Dr. Carl Cooper
1934British Agent as Mr. X
1934The Fountain as Doctor
1934Return of the Terror as Franz Reinhardt
1934Let's Talk It Over as Richards
1934Men in White as Doctor (uncredited)
1934No Greater Glory as Doctor
1934The Countess of Monte Cristo as Police Commissioner
1934Journal of a Crime as Herr Winterstein
1934Hi, Nellie! as Danny
1933The Son of Kong as Captain Englehorn
1933Captured! as Herr Hauptman
1933Before Dawn as Joe Valerie
1933Jennie Gerhardt as Old Weaver (uncredited)
1933A Bedtime Story as Aristide
1933King Kong as Captain Englehorn
1933Topaze as Dr. Stegg
1933Employees' Entrance as Garfinkle
1932Flesh as Warden in Germany (uncredited)
1932Scarlet Dawn as Plotsky (Uncredited)
1932The Crooked Circle as Rankin
1932A Woman Commands as The General
1931Mata Hari as The Cook - Spy
1931Suicide Fleet as Holtzmann
1931The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Arresting Detective (uncredited)
1931Beyond Victory as German Hospital Chief
1931Gentleman's Fate as Francesco Tomasulo
1930Billy the Kid as General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
1930Every Woman's Longing as Unknown
1930Strictly Unconventional as Duke of Brocklehurst
1930The Grand Parade as Unknown
1930Girl of the Port as Unknown
1929Mister Antonio as Milton Jorny
1929Her Private Affair as State's Attorney
1929Paris Bound as Unknown
1929Black Waters as Randall
1929Strange Cargo as Dr. Stecker
1929His Captive Woman as Unknown
1928Sins of the Fathers as The Eye Specialist
1928Someone to Love as Simmons
1928Napoleon's Barber as Napoleon's Barber
1928The Masks of the Devil as Count Zellner
1928The Blue Danube as Baron
1928Four Sons as The Schoolmaster
1928Beau Sabreur as Gen. de Beaujolais
1926Her Man o' War as Professor Krantz
Directing
1931We're switching to Hollywood ... Director
1929Mister Antonio ... Director
1921Behind Masks ... Director
1919The Black Circle ... Director
1919The Trap ... Director
1919The American Way ... Director
1919Suspense ... Director
1918The Sea Waif ... Director
1918The Prodigal Wife ... Director
1918The Only Road ... Director
1917An American Widow ... Director
1917The Eternal Mother ... Director
1917The Inner Shrine ... Director
1917Unconquered ... Director
1917Castles for Two ... Director
1917The Sacrifice ... Director
1917The Black Wolf ... Director
1917Lost and Won ... Director
1917Betty to the Rescue ... Director
1916Witchcraft ... Director
1916The Love Mask ... Director
1916For the Defense ... Director
1916Pudd'nhead Wilson ... Director
1915Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo ... Director
1915The Secret Sin ... Director
1915The Chorus Lady ... Director
1915The Case of Becky ... Director
1915The Clue ... Director
Crew
1916Witchcraft ... Presenter