
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

Star Spangled Rhythm

Variety Girl

The Grapes of Wrath

Wake Island

The Palm Beach Story

Incendiary Blonde

Bring on the Girls

You Came Along

Two Years Before the Mast

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

The Affairs of Susan

Detective Story

The Blue Dahlia

Standing Room Only

The Well Groomed Bride

Cross My Heart

To Each His Own

My Favorite Spy

And the Angels Sing

Easy Come, Easy Go

Funny Girl

Border Flight

Address Unknown

The Trouble with Women

Whispering Smith

The Sky Parade

Masquerade in Mexico

It's a Wonderful Life

Red Garters

Blue Skies

California

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

The Eagle and the Hawk

The Lost Weekend

The Perils of Pauline

Copper Canyon

Road to Rio

Suddenly It's Spring

Hazard

Welcome Stranger

Passage West

Bombalera

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
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