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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.

Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
as Self - (archive footage)

Adventures of Superman

Superman and the Mole Men
as Hospital Superintendent

The Lady and the Bandit
as Count Eckhardt

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
as Darius 'Doc' Green

Samson and Delilah
as Village Barber

Barbary Pirate
as Cathcart

The Gallant Blade
as Major

I, Jane Doe
as Doctor

Carson City Raiders
as Razor the Barber

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
as Dr. MacKenzie

Escape Me Never
as The Minister

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Maasdam

Monsieur Verdoux
as Doctor (uncredited)

Violence
as Pop, apartment concierge

Yankee Fakir
as H.W. Randall

Home in Oklahoma
as Jason Cragmyle

Sister Kenny
as Dr. Chuter (uncredited)

The Shadow Returns
as Michael Hasdon

A Guy Could Change
as Doctor

The Tiger Woman
as Coroner

Voice of the Whistler
as Dr. Rose (uncredited)

Phantoms, Inc.
as Philip Kenneson, Sr.
Blonde Ransom
as Judge

A Medal for Benny
as Father Bly (uncredited)

The Jade Mask
as Harper

The Strange Mr. Gregory
as William Riker, the Butler

The Big Bonanza
as Dr. Ballou

House of Frankenstein
as Frederick Ullman

The Conspirators
as Casino Attendant (uncredited)

The Mummy's Ghost
as Prof. Matthew Norman

Gildersleeve's Ghost
as Dr. Wells

Address Unknown
as Professor Schmidt

Captain America
as Lyman

Tornado
as Linden, Sr.

Bomber's Moon
as Dr. Hartman

Background to Danger
as Rudick - the Assasin

Yanks Ahoy
as German Soldier (uncredited)

Above Suspicion
as Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)

Mission to Moscow
as General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)

Plan for Destruction
as Karl Ernst Haushofer

Night Monster
as Dr. Timmons

The Mummy's Tomb
as Professor Matthew Norman

Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Thaddeus Quentin

Secret Enemies
as Henry Bremmer

The Gay Sisters
as Dr. Thomas Bigelow

Beyond the Blue Horizon
as Sneath

The Mystery of Marie Roget
as Magistrate

To Be or Not to Be
as Polish Official (uncredited)

Nazi Agent
as Fritz

Dangerously They Live
as Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler

One Foot in Heaven
as Board Member (uncredited)

Underground
as Professor Baumer

Shining Victory
as Dr. Esterhazy

The Nurse's Secret
as Wiley Henderson

They Dare Not Love
as Captain

Flight from Destiny
as Edvaard Kreindling

The Face Behind the Mask
as Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)

Four Mothers
as Festival Committee Member (uncredited)

Sky Murder
as Dr. Crattan