Frank Reicher

About

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...

Known for

Adventures of SupermanSeries • 1952King KongMovie • 1933Samson and DelilahMovie • 1949To Be or Not to BeMovie • 1942CamilleMovie • 1936JuarezMovie • 1939The Son of KongMovie • 1933NinotchkaMovie • 1939Monsieur VerdouxMovie • 1947The Secret Life of Walter MittyMovie • 1947House of FrankensteinMovie • 1944The Amazing Dr. ClitterhouseMovie • 1938All This, and Heaven TooMovie • 1940Superman and the Mole MenMovie • 1951Mata HariMovie • 1931The Mummy's TombMovie • 1942The Mummy's GhostMovie • 1944Stage DoorMovie • 1937Dr. Ehrlich's Magic BulletMovie • 1940The Lady in QuestionMovie • 1940The Devil-DollMovie • 1936Charlie Chan in EgyptMovie • 1935Captain AmericaMovie • 1944British AgentMovie • 1934