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