Frank Faylen
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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
Two Years Before the Mast
You Came Along
The Affairs of Susan
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
My Favorite Spy
To Each His Own
The Well Groomed Bride
Cross My Heart
The Blue Dahlia
Standing Room Only
Detective Story
And the Angels Sing
Funny Girl
Border Flight
Easy Come, Easy Go
The Trouble with Women
The Sky Parade
Whispering Smith
Masquerade in Mexico
It's a Wonderful Life
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Red Garters
Blue Skies
California
The Perils of Pauline
The Eagle and the Hawk
Copper Canyon
The Lost Weekend
Suddenly It's Spring
Welcome Stranger
Hazard
Road to Rio
Bombalera
Passage West
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
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