
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

Two Years Before the Mast

You Came Along

The Affairs of Susan

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

Standing Room Only

My Favorite Spy

Detective Story

To Each His Own

The Well Groomed Bride

The Blue Dahlia

Cross My Heart

And the Angels Sing

Address Unknown

Border Flight

Easy Come, Easy Go

Funny Girl

Whispering Smith

The Trouble with Women

Masquerade in Mexico

The Sky Parade

Blue Skies

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

California

Red Garters

It's a Wonderful Life

The Eagle and the Hawk

Copper Canyon

The Perils of Pauline

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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