Frank Faylen
Acting
Born December 8, 1905 ยท Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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.
Films (175)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
1977
Funny Girl
1968
When the Boys Meet the Girls
1965
The Monkey's Uncle
1965
Fluffy
1965
North to Alaska
1960
The Sunrise Gun
1959
Dino
1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
7th Cavalry
1956
Three Brave Men
1956
Everything But the Truth
1956
Away All Boats
1956
Terror at Midnight
1956
The McConnell Story
1955
The Looters
1955
The Lone Gun
1954
Riot in Cell Block 11
1954
Red Garters
1954
99 River Street
1953
Hangman's Knot
1952
The Lusty Men
1952
The Sniper
1952
My Favorite Spy
1951
Detective Story
1951
Passage West
1951
Fourteen Hours
1951
Copper Canyon
1950
The Eagle and the Hawk
1950
Convicted
1950
Francis
1950
The Nevadan
1950
Whispering Smith
1948
Blood on the Moon
1948
Race Street
1948
Hazard
1948
Road to Rio
1947
Variety Girl
1947
The Perils of Pauline
1947
The Trouble with Women
1947
Welcome Stranger
1947
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
California
1947
Suddenly It's Spring
1947
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
Cross My Heart
1946
Two Years Before the Mast
1946
Blue Skies
1946
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946
The Well Groomed Bride
1946
The Blue Dahlia
1946
To Each His Own
1946
Masquerade in Mexico
1945
The Lost Weekend
1945
Incendiary Blonde
1945
The Affairs of Susan
1945
You Came Along
1945
Bring on the Girls
1945
Bombalera
1945
The Canterville Ghost
1944
Address Unknown
1944
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944
And the Angels Sing
1944
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944
A Guy Named Joe
1944
Standing Room Only
1944
The Gang's All Here
1943
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943
The Unknown Guest
1943
Corvette K-225
1943
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
Nazty Nuisance
1943
Young Ideas
1943
Yanks Ahoy
1943
Get Going
1943
Prairie Chickens
1943
Good Morning, Judge
1943
Mission to Moscow
1943
Taxi, Mister
1943
Slightly Dangerous
1943
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943
Dixie Dugan
1943
Silver Skates
1943
Fall In
1942
Across the Pacific
1942
The Palm Beach Story
1942
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942
Wake Island
1942
A-Haunting We Will Go
1942
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
Tough as They Come
1942
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
Whispering Ghosts
1942
About Face
1942
Mokey
1942
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
Joe Smith, American
1942
Steel Against the Sky
1941
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941
Sergeant York
1941
Let's Go Collegiate
1941
Tanks a Million
1941
Blossoms in the Dust
1941
Father Steps Out
1941
The Reluctant Dragon
1941
Thieves Fall Out
1941
Model Wife
1941
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
Come Live with Me
1941
East of the River
1940
Just a Cute Kid
1940
City for Conquest
1940
No Time for Comedy
1940
They Drive by Night
1940
Pop Always Pays
1940
Blame It on Love
1940
Brother Orchid
1940
La Conga Nights
1940
Edison, the Man
1940
Saturday's Children
1940
Curtain Call
1940
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Alice in Movieland
1940
Castle on the Hudson
1940
The Fighting 69th
1940
Married and in Love
1940
Invisible Stripes
1939
Gone with the Wind
1939
Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939
Reno
1939
No Place to Go
1939
Slapsie Maxie's
1939
Thunder Afloat
1939
Waterfront
1939
Five Came Back
1939
It's a Wonderful World
1939
Lucky Night
1939
Women in the Wind
1939
The Flying Irishman
1939
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939
Twelve Crowded Hours
1939
Idiot's Delight
1939
Crime Rave
1939
Too Hot to Handle
1938
No Time to Marry
1938
The Invisible Menace
1938
Headin' East
1937
Wine, Women and Horses
1937
That Certain Woman
1937
Back in Circulation
1937
Ever Since Eve
1937
They Won't Forget
1937
Dance Charlie Dance
1937
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
1937
Kid Galahad
1937
San Quentin
1937
The Go-Getter
1937
The Cherokee Strip
1937
Marked Woman
1937
Midnight Court
1937
Smart Blonde
1937
King of Hockey
1936
Night Waitress
1936
All American Chump
1936
The Sky Parade
1936
China Clipper
1936
Bullets or Ballots
1936
Border Flight
1936
Romance in the Air
1936
Road Gang
1936
Double Exposure
1935