Birthday
1875/12/02
Day of death
1965/01/19 (89 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
Also know as
George H. Lloyd, Frank Reichert, Franz Reicher
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 Br...Read more
(1940) Dr. Cyclops
as Prof. Kendall
(1942) Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Thaddeus Quentin
(1935) Charlie Chan in Egypt
as Dr. Jaipur
(1937) Night Key
as Carl - gang engineer
(1947) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Maasdam
(1942) To Be or Not to Be
as Polish Official (uncredited)
(1944) The Mummy's Ghost
as Prof. Matthew Norman
(1951) Superman and the Mole-Men
as Hospital Superintendent
(1938) The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
as Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
(1936) Second Wife
as Headmaster
(1935) The Florentine Dagger
as Von Stein
(1945) The Strange Mr. Gregory
as William Riker, the Butler
(1933) The Son of Kong
as Captain Englehorn
(1947) Violence
as Pop, apartment concierge
(1933) Employees' Entrance
as Garfinkle
(1937) Stage Door
as Stage Director
(1934) Return of the Terror
as Franz Reinhardt
(1945) The Jade Mask
as Harper
(1942) Nazi Agent
as Fritz
(1940) Sky Murder
as Dr. Crattan
(1930) Every woman's longing
as ---
(1941) Dangerously They Live
as Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
(1946) Home in Oklahoma
as Jason Cragmyle
(1935) Rendezvous
as Dr. R.A. Jackson
(1937) The Emperor's Candlesticks
as Pavloff
(1936) The Story of Louis Pasteur
as Dr. Pfeiffer
(1939) South of the Border
as Don Diego Mendoza
(1940) The Lady in Question
as President
(1936) The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
as Dr. Coate
(1943) Plan for Destruction
as Karl Ernst Haushofer
(1938) Letter of Introduction
as Second Doctor (uncredited)
(1947) Escape Me Never
as The Minister
(1942) Night Monster
as Dr. Timmons
(1934) Men in White
as Doctor (uncredited)
(1936) The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as Henry Strand (uncredited)
(1930) The Grand Parade
as ---
(1936) The Gorgeous Hussy
as Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
(1944) The Conspirators
as Casino Attendant (uncredited)
(1932) Flesh
as Warden in Germany (uncredited)
(1937) Under Cover of Night
as Rudolph Brehmer
(1944) The Big Bonanza
as Dr. Ballou
(1935) Life Returns
as Dr. James
(1933) Before Dawn
as Joe Valerie
(1946) The Shadow Returns
as Michael Hasdon
(1942) Secret Enemies
as Henry Bremmer
(1939) The Magnificent Fraud
as Mendietta Garcia
(1933) Topaze
as Dr. Stegg
(1930) Billy the Kid
as General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
(1945) The Tiger Woman
as Coroner
(1936) Girls Dormitory
as Dr. Hoffenreich
(1935) The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as 2nd Assistant Director
(1938) Torchy Gets Her Man
as The Professor - Henchman
(1948) Carson City Raiders
as Razor the Barber
(1936) Along Came Love
as Planetarium Lecturer
(1933) Captured!
as Herr Hauptman
(1940) Typhoon
as Doctor
(1934) Journal of a Crime
as Herr Winterstein
(1937) Stolen Holiday
as Rainer
(1931) Gentleman's Fate
as Francesco Tomasulo
(1937) Espionage
as Von Cram
(1943) Tornado
as Linden, Sr.
(1938) The Girl Downstairs
as Police Official (uncredited)
(1931) Suicide Fleet
as Holtzmann
(1944) Gildersleeve's Ghost
as Dr. Wells
(1936) Till We Meet Again
as Colonel Von Diegel
(1937) Fit for a King
as Kurtz
(1942) The Mystery of Marie Roget
as Magistrate
(1941) Shining Victory
as Dr. Esterhazy
(1939) Sons of Liberty
as Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
(1932) The Crooked Circle
as Rankin
(1934) The Fountain
as Doctor
(1928) The Masks of the Devil
as Count Zellner
(1940) The Man I Married
as Friehof
(1934) The Case of the Howling Dog
as Dr. Carl Cooper
(1938) Prison Nurse
as Doctor Hartman
(1938) City Streets
as Dr. Ferenc Waller
(1930) Girl of the Port
as ---
(1933) A Bedtime Story
as Aristide
(1934) I Am a Thief
as Max Bolen
(1934) British Agent
as Mr. X
(1931) Beyond Victory
as German Hospital Chief
(1929) Mister Antonio
as Milton Jorny
(1936) The Country Doctor
as Dr. Paul Luke
(1928) Four Sons
as The Schoolmaster
(1938) I'll Give a Million
as Prefect of Police
(1930) Strictly Unconventional
as Duke of Brocklehurst
(1929) His Captive Woman
as ---
(1935) Kind Lady
as Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
(1928) The Blue Danube
as Baron
(1936) Under Two Flags
as French General
(1929) Paris Bound
as ---
(1929) Her Private Affair
as State's Attorney
(1935) A Dog of Flanders
as Herr Vanderkloot
(1937) Man Of The People
as Robinson
(1931) The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Arresting Detective (uncredited)
(1939) The Escape
as Dr. Shumaker
(1934) Mills of the Gods
as Barrett
(1936) The Devil-Doll
as Doctor (uncredited)
(1936) Sutter's Gold
as Governor Felipe Vega
(1934) Hi, Nellie!
as Danny
(1937) Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
(1936) Laughing at Trouble
as Dr. Larson
(1933) Jennie Gerhardt
as Old Weaver (uncredited)
(1941) The Nurse's Secret
as Wiley Henderson
(1939) Devil's Island
as President of Assize Court
(1934) Secret of the Chateau
as Auctioneer
(1939) Never Say Die
as Man in Charge of Duel
(1939) Juarez
as Duc de Morny (uncredited)
(1933) King Kong
as Captain Englehorn
(1939) Everything Happens at Night
as Pharmacist
(1939) Nurse Edith Cavell
as Baron von Bissing
(1939) Ninotchka
as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
(1937) On Such a Night
as Horace Darwin
(1935) Star of Midnight
as Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
(1944) House of Frankenstein
as Frederick Ullman (uncredited)
(1934) No Greater Glory
as Doctor
(1937) The Great O'Malley
as Dr. Larson
(1946) Sister Kenny
as Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
(1948) The Gallant Blade
as Major
(1940) All This, and Heaven Too
as Police Official (uncredited)
(1942) Beyond the Blue Horizon
as Sneath
(1947) Yankee Fakir
as H.W. Randall
(1947) Monsieur Verdoux
as Doctor (uncredited)
(1940) Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
as Old Man
(1939) Society Smugglers
as Jones
(1937) Prescription for Romance
as Jozsef
(1937) West Bound Limited
as Pop Martin
(1945) Voice of the Whistler
as Dr. Rose (uncredited)
(1932) A Woman Commands
as The General
(1941) Underground
as Professor Baumer
(1942) The Gay Sisters
as Dr. Thomas Bigelow
(1932) Scarlet Dawn
as Plotsky (Uncredited)
(1938) Rascals
as Dr. C.M. Garvey
(1942) The Mummy's Tomb
as Professor Matthew Norman
(1945) Phantoms, Inc.
as Philip Kenneson, Sr.
(1948) I, Jane Doe
as Doctor
(1946) A Guy Could Change
as Doctor
(1936) Sinner Take All
as Theo Drukker (uncredited)
(1939) Sabotage
as (uncredited)
(1941) Four Mothers
as Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
(1928) Napoleon's Barber
as Napoleon's Barber
(1929) Black Waters
as Randall
(1941) They Dare Not Love
as Captain
(1936) Star for a Night
as Doctor Heimkin
(1934) The Countess of Monte Cristo
as Police Commissioner
(1939) Woman Doctor
as Dr. Mathews
(1931) Mata Hari
as The Cook - Spy
(1939) Mystery of the White Room
as Dr. Amos Thornton
(1938) Suez
as General Changarnier
(1928) Beau Sabreur
as Gen. de Beaujolais
(1951) The Lady and the Bandit
as Count Eckhardt
(1950) Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
as Darius 'Doc' Green
(1937) Midnight Madonna
as Vincent Long II
(1926) Her Man o' War
as Professor Krantz
(1936) Anthony Adverse
as Coachman to Paris
(1935) Magnificent Obsession
as Dr. Rochard
(1929) Strange Cargo
as Dr. Stecker
(1949) Samson and Delilah
as Village Barber
(1943) Above Suspicion
as Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
(1943) Background to Danger
as Rudick - the Assasin
(1943) Mission to Moscow
as General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
(1935) The Great Impersonation
as Dr. Trenk
(1934) Let's Talk It Over
as Richards
(1941) Flight from Destiny
as Edvaard Kreindling
(1937) The Mighty Treve
as Eben McClelland
(1948) Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
as Dr. MacKenzie
(1944) Address Unknown
as Professor Schmidt
(1949) Barbary Pirate
as Cathcart
(1945) A Medal for Benny
as Father Bly (uncredited)
(1940) South to Karanga
as Dr. Greenleaf
(1943) Bomber's Moon
as Dr. Hartman
(1936) Camille
as Creditor Agent (uncredited)
(1928) Sins of the Fathers
as The Eye Specialist
(1944) Captain America
as Lyman
(1936) The Invisible Ray
as Professor Meiklejohn
(1941) One Foot in Heaven
as Board Member (uncredited)
(1937) The Road Back
as Ernst's Father
(1928) Someone to Love
as Simmons
(1952) Adventures of Superman
as ---