Frank Faylen
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1905-12-08
Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Popularity: 0.9
Biography
Frank Faylen (born Francis Charles Ruf) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He is best remembered for his movie performances as the cynical male nurse in The Lost Weekend (1945) and Ernie the taxi driver in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), as well as for his portrayal of long-suffering grocer Herbert T. Gillis on the 1950s television sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
Known For Filmography
Petticoat Junction
1963
Quincy, M.E.
1976
Maverick
1957
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
That Girl
1966
The Bob Hope Show
1950
Gone with the Wind
1939
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959
Telephone Time
1956
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
The Great Adventure
1963
Racket Squad
1951
My Mother the Car
1965
Man with a Camera
1958
Two Years Before the Mast
1946
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
General Electric Theater
1953
Sergeant York
1941
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
The Lost Weekend
1945
North to Alaska
1960
Funny Girl
1968
The Reluctant Dragon
1941
A Guy Named Joe
1944
The Blue Dahlia
1946
Riot in Cell Block 11
1954
Copper Canyon
1950
Away All Boats
1956
The Palm Beach Story
1942
The Lusty Men
1952
Blood on the Moon
1948
Convicted
1950
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
Brother Orchid
1940
Marked Woman
1937
Across the Pacific
1942
Kid Galahad
1937
Detective Story
1951
99 River Street
1953
The Sniper
1952
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
And the Angels Sing
1944
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
The Gang's All Here
1943
Bullets or Ballots
1936
They Drive by Night
1940
Hangman's Knot
1952
The Canterville Ghost
1944
Wake Island
1942
Idiot's Delight
1939
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944
Five Came Back
1939
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942
The Go-Getter
1937
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939
Corvette K-225
1943
Blossoms in the Dust
1941
California
1947
Too Hot to Handle
1938
Invisible Stripes
1939
The Affairs of Susan
1945
The Lone Gun
1954
Back in Circulation
1937
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939
Road to Rio
1947
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943
7th Cavalry
1956
Whispering Smith
1948
Variety Girl
1947
My Favorite Spy
1951
The Eagle and the Hawk
1950
It's a Wonderful World
1939
City for Conquest
1940
To Each His Own
1946
Incendiary Blonde
1945
When the Boys Meet the Girls
1965
Waterfront
1939
Red Garters
1954
Francis
1950
A-Haunting We Will Go
1942
Address Unknown
1944
Thieves Fall Out
1941
Reno
1939
Pop Always Pays
1940
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
The McConnell Story
1955
China Clipper
1936
Blue Skies
1946
Fourteen Hours
1951
The Fighting 69th
1940
San Quentin
1937
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941
Let's Go Collegiate
1941
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
The Perils of Pauline
1947
No Time for Comedy
1940
Fluffy
1965
Slightly Dangerous
1943
The Looters
1955
Twelve Crowded Hours
1939
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
Welcome Stranger
1947
You Came Along
1945
Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939
Father Steps Out
1941
Race Street
1948
Mission to Moscow
1943
Edison, the Man
1940
Come Live with Me
1941
The Monkey's Uncle
1965
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943
Tough as They Come
1942
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
Hazard
1948
The Nevadan
1950
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944
Everything But the Truth
1956
Women in the Wind
1939
Fall In
1942
Model Wife
1941
The Trouble with Women
1947
Lucky Night
1939
Castle on the Hudson
1940
Masquerade in Mexico
1945
About Face
1942
Passage West
1951
The Sky Parade
1936
Three Brave Men
1956
Suddenly It's Spring
1947
The Flying Irishman
1939
Mokey
1942
Thunder Afloat
1939
Slapsie Maxie's
1939
Young Ideas
1943
The Invisible Menace
1938
Headin' East
1937
Night Waitress
1936
Midnight Court
1937
Dino
1957
The Cherokee Strip
1937
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942
Dixie Dugan
1943
Get Going
1943
Road Gang
1936
Smart Blonde
1937
Joe Smith, American
1942
Tanks a Million
1941
No Time to Marry
1938
Silver Skates
1943
East of the River
1940
King of Hockey
1936
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
1937
Alice in Movieland
1940
No Place to Go
1939
Terror at Midnight
1956
Married and in Love
1940
Bring on the Girls
1945
Prairie Chickens
1943
Whispering Ghosts
1942
Nazty Nuisance
1943
Saturday's Children
1940
Taxi, Mister
1943
Standing Room Only
1944
That Certain Woman
1937
Ever Since Eve
1937
La Conga Nights
1940
Good Morning, Judge
1943
Steel Against the Sky
1941
The Well Groomed Bride
1946
Double Exposure
1935
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941
Border Flight
1936
Romance in the Air
1936
Just a Cute Kid
1940
Dance Charlie Dance
1937
All American Chump
1936
Cross My Heart
1946
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
1977
Curtain Call
1940
Wine, Women and Horses
1937
They Won't Forget
1937No Photo
Crime Rave
1939
Yanks Ahoy
1943
The Unknown Guest
1943No Photo
Bombalera
1945