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Frank Reicher
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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 1…
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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.
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2021
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
Movie Self - (archive footage)
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1952
Adventures of Superman
TV show
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1951
Superman and the Mole Men
Movie Hospital Superintendent
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1951
The Lady and the Bandit
Movie Count Eckhardt
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1950
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Movie Darius 'Doc' Green
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1949
Samson and Delilah
Movie Village Barber
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1949
Barbary Pirate
Movie Cathcart
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1948
The Gallant Blade
Movie Major
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1948
I, Jane Doe
Movie Doctor
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1948
Carson City Raiders
Movie Razor the Barber
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1948
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Movie Dr. MacKenzie
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1947
Escape Me Never
Movie The Minister
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1947
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Movie Maasdam
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1947
Monsieur Verdoux
Movie Doctor (uncredited)
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1947
Violence
Movie Pop, apartment concierge
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1947
Yankee Fakir
Movie H.W. Randall
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1946
Home in Oklahoma
Movie Jason Cragmyle
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1946
Sister Kenny
Movie Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
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1946
The Shadow Returns
Movie Michael Hasdon
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1946
A Guy Could Change
Movie Doctor
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1945
The Tiger Woman
Movie Coroner
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1945
Voice of the Whistler
Movie Dr. Rose (uncredited)
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1945
Phantoms, Inc.
Movie Philip Kenneson, Sr.
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1945
Blonde Ransom
Movie Judge
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1945
A Medal for Benny
Movie Father Bly (uncredited)
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1945
The Jade Mask
Movie Harper
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1945
The Strange Mr. Gregory
Movie William Riker, the Butler
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1944
The Big Bonanza
Movie Dr. Ballou
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1944
House of Frankenstein
Movie Frederick Ullman
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1944
The Conspirators
Movie Casino Attendant (uncredited)
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1944
The Mummy's Ghost
Movie Prof. Matthew Norman
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1944
Address Unknown
Movie Professor Schmidt
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1944
Gildersleeve's Ghost
Movie Dr. Wells
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1944
Captain America
Movie Lyman
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1943
Watch on the Rhine
Movie Admiral (uncredited)
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1943
Tornado
Movie Linden, Sr.
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1943
Bomber's Moon
Movie Dr. Hartman
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1943
Background to Danger
Movie Rudick (uncredited)
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1943
Yanks Ahoy
Movie German Soldier (uncredited)
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1943
Above Suspicion
Movie Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
