Frank Faylen

Born: 1905-12-08, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Died: 1985-08-02

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.

Filmography

• Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)
• Petticoat Junction (1963)
• That Girl (1966)
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
• Telephone Time (1956)
• Gone with the Wind (1939)
• It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
• Funny Girl (1968)
• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
• The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
• The Flying Irishman (1939)
• Sergeant York (1941)
• Fourteen Hours (1951)
• The Reluctant Dragon (1941)
• North to Alaska (1960)
• The Lusty Men (1952)
• The Lost Weekend (1945)
• The Sniper (1952)
• Marked Woman (1937)
• About Face (1942)
• The Blue Dahlia (1946)
• Blue Skies (1946)
• Blood on the Moon (1948)
• Nazty Nuisance (1943)
• Hangman's Knot (1952)
• Detective Story (1951)
• 7th Cavalry (1956)
• Welcome Stranger (1947)
• Road Gang (1936)
• Road to Rio (1947)