
Frank Faylen
0 FOLLOWERS • 53 CREDITS • DEC 8, 1905 - AUG 2, 1985 • 79
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

Quincy, M.E.

General Electric Theater

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Petticoat Junction

Telephone Time

My Mother the Car

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Racket Squad

Gone with the Wind

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Star Spangled Rhythm

Variety Girl

The Grapes of Wrath

Wake Island

The Palm Beach Story

Incendiary Blonde

You Came Along

Bring on the Girls

Two Years Before the Mast

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

The Affairs of Susan

Cross My Heart

The Well Groomed Bride

To Each His Own

Standing Room Only

Detective Story

The Blue Dahlia

My Favorite Spy

And the Angels Sing

Funny Girl

Border Flight

Easy Come, Easy Go

The Sky Parade

The Trouble with Women

Whispering Smith

Masquerade in Mexico

California

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Red Garters

It's a Wonderful Life

Blue Skies

The Perils of Pauline

Copper Canyon

The Lost Weekend

The Eagle and the Hawk

Road to Rio

Hazard

Welcome Stranger

Suddenly It's Spring

Passage West

Bombalera

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
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