Frank Faylen

DOB: 1905-12-08

DOD: 1985-08-02

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.

Starred In

1951
Movie

Detective Story

1945
Movie

You Came Along

1947
Movie

Road to Rio

1952
Movie

The Sniper

1941
Movie

Come Live with Me

1945
Movie

The Lost Weekend

1956
Movie

Terror at Midnight

1950
Movie

Convicted

1948
Movie

Blood on the Moon

1953
Movie

99 River Street

1956
Movie

7th Cavalry

1952
Movie

The Lusty Men

1968
Movie

Funny Girl

1946
Movie

The Blue Dahlia

1950
Movie

The Nevadan

1937
Movie

They Won't Forget

1956
Movie

Away All Boats

1937
Movie

Kid Galahad

1951
Movie

Fourteen Hours

1946
Movie

Blue Skies

1952
Movie

Hangman's Knot

1946
Movie

To Each His Own

1948
Movie

Race Street

1942
Movie

Whispering Ghosts

1939
Movie

Thunder Afloat

1951
Movie

My Favorite Spy

1950
Movie

Copper Canyon

1960
Movie

North to Alaska

1944
Movie

Address Unknown

1947
Movie

California

1937
Movie

San Quentin

1947
Movie

Variety Girl

1940
Movie

Curtain Call

1943
Movie

Taxi, Mister

1955
Movie

The Looters

1957
Movie

Dino

1965
Movie

Fluffy

1954
Movie

The Lone Gun

1951
Movie

Passage West

1936
Movie

Road Gang

1944
Movie

Standing Room Only

1939
Movie

No Place to Go

1936
Movie

King of Hockey

1947
Movie

Easy Come, Easy Go

1956
Movie

Three Brave Men

1947
Movie

Welcome Stranger

1942
Movie

Across the Pacific

1939
Movie

Reno

1965
Movie

The Monkey's Uncle

1941
Movie

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

1940
Movie

Blame It on Love

1940
Movie

Alice in Movieland

1939
Movie

Waterfront

1943
Movie

Silver Skates

1939
Movie

Women in the Wind

1940
Movie

The Fighting 69th

1948
Movie

Whispering Smith

1948
Movie

Hazard

1937
Movie

Ever Since Eve

1946
Movie

Cross My Heart

1939
Movie

Idiot's Delight

1943
Movie

Prairie Chickens

1939
Movie

Lucky Night

1939
Movie

Five Came Back

1939
Movie

Gone with the Wind

1950
Movie

Francis

1941
Movie

Thieves Fall Out

1937
Movie

The Cherokee Strip

1937
Movie

Midnight Court

1942
Movie

Wake Island

1936
Movie

Night Waitress

1937
Movie

Smart Blonde

1943
Movie

Dixie Dugan

1943
Movie

The Unknown Guest

1936
Movie

The Sky Parade

1940
Movie

Brother Orchid

1940
Movie

Edison, the Man

1936
Movie

All American Chump

1938
Movie

No Time to Marry

1940
Movie

Just a Cute Kid

1941
Movie

Father Steps Out

1941
Movie

Tanks a Million

1943
Movie

Get Going

1942
Movie

Fall In

1943
Movie

Yanks Ahoy

1954
Movie

Red Garters

1941
Movie

Sergeant York

1940
Movie

City for Conquest

1940
Movie

No Time for Comedy

1940
Movie

East of the River

1940
Movie

Pop Always Pays

1943
Movie

Young Ideas

1935
Movie

Double Exposure

1940
Movie

La Conga Nights

1942
Movie

Tough as They Come

1943
Movie

Corvette K-225

1936
Movie

Border Flight

1941
Movie

Model Wife

1942
Movie

About Face

1942
Movie

Mokey

1943
Movie

Slightly Dangerous

1937
Movie

The Go-Getter

1939
Movie

Crime Rave

1937
Movie

Marked Woman

1945
Movie

Bombalera

1945
Movie

Bring on the Girls

1943
Movie

A Guy Named Joe

1943
Movie

Mission to Moscow

1939
Movie

Slapsie Maxie's

1943
Movie

Nazty Nuisance

1936
Movie

Bullets or Ballots

1936
Movie

China Clipper

1945
Movie

Incendiary Blonde

1939
Movie

Invisible Stripes

1937
Movie

Headin' East

1936
Movie

Romance in the Air

1966
Tv

That Girl

1951
Tv

Racket Squad

1957
Tv

Maverick

1976
Tv

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