
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

Variety Girl

Star Spangled Rhythm

The Grapes of Wrath

Wake Island

The Palm Beach Story

Incendiary Blonde

You Came Along

Two Years Before the Mast

Bring on the Girls

The Affairs of Susan

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

The Blue Dahlia

Cross My Heart

My Favorite Spy

Standing Room Only

Detective Story

To Each His Own

The Well Groomed Bride

And the Angels Sing

Border Flight

Funny Girl

Easy Come, Easy Go

The Sky Parade

Whispering Smith

The Trouble with Women

Masquerade in Mexico

Blue Skies

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Red Garters

California

It's a Wonderful Life

The Eagle and the Hawk

The Perils of Pauline

The Lost Weekend

Copper Canyon

Road to Rio

Hazard

Suddenly It's Spring

Welcome Stranger

Bombalera

Passage West

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
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