
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

Star Spangled Rhythm

Variety Girl

The Grapes of Wrath

Wake Island

The Palm Beach Story

Incendiary Blonde

Two Years Before the Mast

Bring on the Girls

You Came Along

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

The Affairs of Susan

The Blue Dahlia

To Each His Own

Cross My Heart

My Favorite Spy

Standing Room Only

Detective Story

The Well Groomed Bride

And the Angels Sing

Border Flight

Easy Come, Easy Go

Funny Girl

Masquerade in Mexico

The Sky Parade

Whispering Smith

The Trouble with Women

California

Red Garters

Blue Skies

It's a Wonderful Life

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

The Eagle and the Hawk

The Perils of Pauline

Copper Canyon

The Lost Weekend

Hazard

Road to Rio

Suddenly It's Spring

Welcome Stranger

Passage West

Bombalera

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
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