Frank Faylen
Department: Acting
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
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
The Blue Dahlia
1946
Funny Girl
1968
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
My Favorite Spy
1951
Copper Canyon
1950
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
Cross My Heart
1946
Masquerade in Mexico
1945
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
The Cherokee Strip
1937
Midnight Court
1937
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
Wake Island
1942
Night Waitress
1936
Smart Blonde
1937
Dixie Dugan
1943
The Unknown Guest
1943
The Gang's All Here
1943
The Sky Parade
1936
Suddenly It's Spring
1947
Brother Orchid
1940
Edison, the Man
1940
All American Chump
1936
No Time to Marry
1938
Just a Cute Kid
1940
Father Steps Out
1941
Good Morning, Judge
1943
Tanks a Million
1941
Get Going
1943
Yanks Ahoy
1943
Fall In
1942
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941
A-Haunting We Will Go
1942
Red Garters
1954
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944
Sergeant York
1941
City for Conquest
1940
Saturday's Children
1940
No Time for Comedy
1940
Back in Circulation
1937
Castle on the Hudson
1940
East of the River
1940
They Drive by Night
1940
Pop Always Pays
1940
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939
Young Ideas
1943
Double Exposure
1935
La Conga Nights
1940
The Eagle and the Hawk
1950
Tough as They Come
1942
The Trouble with Women
1947
Corvette K-225
1943
Border Flight
1936
Model Wife
1941
About Face
1942
Mokey
1942
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
Slightly Dangerous
1943
The Go-Getter
1937
Crime Rave
1939
The Well Groomed Bride
1946
Marked Woman
1937
Bombalera
1945
Bring on the Girls
1945
A Guy Named Joe
1944
Mission to Moscow
1943
Slapsie Maxie's
1939
Blossoms in the Dust
1941
Nazty Nuisance
1943
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
Bullets or Ballots
1936
China Clipper
1936
Twelve Crowded Hours
1939
Incendiary Blonde
1945
Invisible Stripes
1939
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944
Joe Smith, American
1942
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
Headin' East
1937
Romance in the Air
1936
The Sunrise Gun
1959
Too Hot to Handle
1938
That Certain Woman
1937
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
The Great Adventure
1963
That Girl
1966
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Petticoat Junction
1963
General Electric Theater
1953
Man with a Camera
1958
My Mother the Car
1965
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
Racket Squad
1951
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Telephone Time
1956
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959
Maverick
1957
The Bob Hope Show
1950
Quincy, M.E.
1976