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