Personal Info
- Known ForActing
- GenderMale
- Birthday1875-12-02
- Day of Death1965-01-19 (89 years)
- Place of BirthMunich, German Empire [now Germany]
- Also Known AsGeorge H. LloydFrank ReichertFranz 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...Read More
Acting Career
- 1951
Superman and the Mole Men
As: Hospital Superintendent
- 1951
The Lady and the Bandit
As: Count Eckhardt
- 1950
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
As: Darius 'Doc' Green
- 1949
Samson and Delilah
As: Village Barber
- 1949
Barbary Pirate
As: Cathcart
- 1948
The Gallant Blade
As: Major
- 1948
I, Jane Doe
As: Doctor
- 1948
Carson City Raiders
As: Razor the Barber
1948Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
As: Dr. MacKenzie
1947Escape Me Never
As: The Minister
- 1947
Monsieur 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
- 1942
To 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
- 1939
Ninotchka
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
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
- 1933
King 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)
1930Strictly Unconventional
As: Duke of Brocklehurst
1929Mister Antonio
As: Milton Jorny
1929Her Private Affair
As: State's Attorney
1929Black Waters
As: Randall
1929Strange Cargo
As: Dr. Stecker
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