13 Facts About Frank Reicher

Frank Reicher is best known for playing Captain Englehorn in the 1933 film King Kong.

Frank Reicher's parents divorced in 1881 and his mother died two years later while at Trieste.

Frank Reicher immigrated to the States in 1899 and became a naturalized American citizen some twelve years later.

Frank 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.

Frank Reicher 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.

Frank 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, Frank Reicher starred in such plays as the first Broadway production of Georg Kaiser's From Morning to Midnight, the original production of Percy MacKaye's The Scarecrow, and the United States premiere of Leonid Andreyev's He Who Gets Slapped.

Frank Reicher is probably more familiar to modern audiences as a supporting character actor in films.

Frank Reicher 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.

Frank Reicher 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 and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye.

Frank Reicher married his wife Ella sometime around 1899 prior to his coming to America.

Frank Reicher died at a hospital in Inglewood, California, aged 89.

Frank Reicher was survived by his sister and a brother.