
Frank Faylen
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.
Acting (173 movies)

The Grapes of Wrath
1940

It's a Wonderful Life
1946

When the Boys Meet the Girls
1965

Detective Story
1951

The Reluctant Dragon
1941

You Came Along
1945

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957

Road to Rio
1947

The Palm Beach Story
1942

The Sniper
1952

Come Live with Me
1941

Riot in Cell Block 11
1954

The Lost Weekend
1945

Terror at Midnight
1956

Convicted
1950

Blood on the Moon
1948

99 River Street
1953

7th Cavalry
1956

The Lusty Men
1952

Funny Girl
1968

The Blue Dahlia
1946

The Nevadan
1950

It's a Wonderful World
1939

Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939

They Won't Forget
1937

The Canterville Ghost
1944

Away All Boats
1956

Kid Galahad
1937

Fourteen Hours
1951

Blue Skies
1946

Hangman's Knot
1952

To Each His Own
1946

Race Street
1948

Whispering Ghosts
1942

Thunder Afloat
1939

Maisie Gets Her Man
1942

The McConnell Story
1955

Copper Canyon
1950

My Favorite Spy
1951

North to Alaska
1960

Star Spangled Rhythm
1942

Address Unknown
1944

California
1947

San Quentin
1937

Variety Girl
1947

The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943

The Perils of Pauline
1947

Curtain Call
1940

Taxi, Mister
1943

The Affairs of Susan
1945

The Looters
1955

Dino
1957

The Pride of the Yankees
1942

Fluffy
1965

The Lone Gun
1954

Passage West
1951

Road Gang
1936

Standing Room Only
1944

No Place to Go
1939

King of Hockey
1936

Easy Come, Easy Go
1947

Three Brave Men
1956

Everything But the Truth
1956

And the Angels Sing
1944

Welcome Stranger
1947

Across the Pacific
1942

Reno
1939

The Monkey's Uncle
1965

Two Years Before the Mast
1946

Married and in Love
1940

Let's Go Collegiate
1941

H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941

Somewhere I'll Find You
1942

Blame It on Love
1940

Alice in Movieland
1940

Waterfront
1939

Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
1977

Silver Skates
1943

Women in the Wind
1939

The Fighting 69th
1940

Wine, Women and Horses
1937

Whispering Smith
1948

The Invisible Menace
1938

Hazard
1948

Ever Since Eve
1937

Masquerade in Mexico
1945

Cross My Heart
1946

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
1937

Dance Charlie Dance
1937

Idiot's Delight
1939

The Flying Irishman
1939

Prairie Chickens
1943

Lucky Night
1939

Five Came Back
1939

Gone with the Wind
1939

Steel Against the Sky
1941

Francis
1950

Thieves Fall Out
1941

Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946
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