
Frank Faylen
0 FOLLOWERS • 54 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

General Electric Theater

Quincy, M.E.

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

Variety Girl

Star Spangled Rhythm

The Grapes of Wrath

Wake Island

The Palm Beach Story

Incendiary Blonde

Bring on the Girls

You Came Along

Two Years Before the Mast

The Affairs of Susan

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

Cross My Heart

Standing Room Only

My Favorite Spy

The Blue Dahlia

Detective Story

The Well Groomed Bride

To Each His Own

And the Angels Sing

Funny Girl

Border Flight

Address Unknown

Easy Come, Easy Go

Whispering Smith

The Sky Parade

Masquerade in Mexico

The Trouble with Women

Red Garters

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

It's a Wonderful Life

Blue Skies

California

The Perils of Pauline

Copper Canyon

The Eagle and the Hawk

The Lost Weekend

Hazard

Welcome Stranger

Road to Rio

Suddenly It's Spring

Passage West

Bombalera

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
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