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.
Movies
TV Shows
Petticoat Junction
★ 5.81963
Wanted: Dead or Alive
★ 7.01958
That Girl
★ 6.21966
The Colgate Comedy Hour
★ 6.91950
The Bob Hope Show
★ 7.01950
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
★ 6.31959
Telephone Time
★ 6.51956
The Great Adventure
★ 10.01963
Racket Squad
★ 6.51951
Man with a Camera
★ 5.51958
My Mother the Car
★ 4.81965
General Electric Theater
★ 6.81953
More Movies
Copper Canyon
★ 5.71950
7th Cavalry
★ 6.11956
The Reluctant Dragon
★ 6.61941
Mokey
★ 6.71942
Wake Island
★ 5.91942
Riot in Cell Block 11
★ 7.11954
The Nevadan
★ 5.91950
The Go-Getter
★ 6.21937
Blood on the Moon
★ 6.21948
Passage West
★ 6.61951
The Canterville Ghost
★ 6.91944
Variety Girl
★ 6.51947
The Palm Beach Story
★ 7.01942
Thunder Afloat
★ 6.11939
Blossoms in the Dust
★ 6.71941
Nazty Nuisance
★ 4.11943
Smart Blonde
★ 6.51937
Midnight Court
★ 5.11937
Road to Rio
★ 6.81947
Away All Boats
★ 5.41956
Five Came Back
★ 6.31939
Fourteen Hours
★ 7.31951
Francis
★ 5.81950
Bullets or Ballots
★ 6.61936
The Pride of the Yankees
★ 7.41942
The Looters
★ 6.11955
The Sniper
★ 6.71952
Kid Galahad
★ 7.01937
They Drive by Night
★ 6.91940
Waterfront
★ 6.51939
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
★ 7.01939
Dino
★ 7.41957
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
★ 6.51987
Across the Pacific
★ 6.61942
Prairie Chickens
★ 8.01943
Yankee Doodle Dandy
★ 7.11942
The Affairs of Susan
★ 6.51945
Brother Orchid
★ 6.61940
Whispering Smith
★ 6.71948
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
★ 7.11941
The Lusty Men
★ 6.71952
Footsteps in the Dark
★ 7.01941
Slightly Dangerous
★ 6.01943
To Each His Own
★ 7.01946
You Can't Get Away with Murder
★ 5.81939
It's a Wonderful World
★ 6.51939
99 River Street
★ 6.81953
Invisible Stripes
★ 6.21939
Star Spangled Rhythm
★ 6.21942
Whispering Ghosts
★ 6.81942
San Quentin
★ 6.61937
A Guy Named Joe
★ 6.71944
Fall In
★ 6.51942
Idiot's Delight
★ 6.11939
The Fighting 69th
★ 5.81940
Come Live with Me
★ 6.81941
Alice in Movieland
★ 6.41940
Edison, the Man
★ 6.81940
A-Haunting We Will Go
★ 6.11942
That Certain Woman
★ 5.61937
The Lone Gun
★ 5.61954
Yanks Ahoy
★ 6.51943
Mission to Moscow
★ 5.71943
Welcome Stranger
★ 6.91947
Terror at Midnight
★ 5.21956
Young Ideas
★ 5.31943
City for Conquest
★ 6.91940
Thank Your Lucky Stars
★ 6.21943
The Gang's All Here
★ 5.91943
Two Years Before the Mast
★ 6.51946
Hangman's Knot
★ 6.51952
Too Hot to Handle
★ 6.01938
Convicted
★ 6.21950
East of the River
★ 6.31940
Race Street
★ 6.01948
The Monkey's Uncle
★ 5.91965
Joe Smith, American
★ 6.51942
The Falcon Strikes Back
★ 5.61943
Curtain Call
★ 7.31940
No Time for Comedy
★ 5.31940
Everything But the Truth
★ 8.21956
My Favorite Spy
★ 6.01951
Road Gang
★ 7.01936
They Won't Forget
★ 5.91937
About Face
★ 6.51942
The Perils of Pauline
★ 6.71947
The Well Groomed Bride
★ 5.71946
The Unknown Guest
★ 7.01943
The Trouble with Women
★ 9.51947
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
★ 7.21937
Masquerade in Mexico
★ 6.01945
Ever Since Eve
★ 5.81937
Incendiary Blonde
★ 5.11945
Easy Come, Easy Go
★ 7.01947
The Eagle and the Hawk
★ 5.91950
And the Angels Sing
★ 7.31944
Fluffy
★ 7.01965
Taxi, Mister
★ 4.21943
Blue Skies
★ 6.21946
The Sky Parade
★ 8.01936
The McConnell Story
★ 6.81955
China Clipper
★ 5.91936
Standing Room Only
★ 5.71944
Model Wife
★ 6.51941
Get Going
★ 7.01943
Somewhere I'll Find You
★ 5.71942
Address Unknown
★ 6.51944
Corvette K-225
★ 6.21943
Reno
★ 6.71939
The Flying Irishman
★ 5.01939
Tough as They Come
★ 9.01942
No Place to Go
★ 8.01939
See Here, Private Hargrove
★ 6.51944
Suddenly It's Spring
★ 4.31947
You Came Along
★ 7.31945
Headin' East
★ 10.01937
When the Boys Meet the Girls
★ 4.81965
The Invisible Menace
★ 4.31938
Saturday's Children
★ 6.91940
Father Steps Out
★ 6.51941
Thieves Fall Out
★ 6.01941
Back in Circulation
★ 6.51937
Dixie Dugan
★ 6.51943
Three Brave Men
★ 6.31956
Red Garters
★ 5.01954
Cross My Heart
★ 9.01946
Just a Cute Kid
★ 7.01940
Nick Carter, Master Detective
★ 6.01939
Women in the Wind
★ 6.81939
Tanks a Million
★ 5.71941
Hazard
★ 8.01948
The Cherokee Strip
★ 6.51937
Maisie Gets Her Man
★ 6.71942
Let's Go Collegiate
★ 5.41941
Castle on the Hudson
★ 7.01940
Border Flight
★ 6.51936
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
★ 6.51946
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
★ 5.71943
Silver Skates
★ 6.31943
Double Exposure
★ 7.81935
Steel Against the Sky
★ 5.41941
Bring on the Girls
★ 6.31945
Married and in Love
★ 5.71940
Good Morning, Judge
★ 10.01943
Slapsie Maxie's
★ 6.01939
Pop Always Pays
★ 7.01940
Twelve Crowded Hours
★ 6.11939
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
★ 6.31944
Lucky Night
★ 6.81939
Dance Charlie Dance
★ 8.01937
No Time to Marry
★ 7.01938
The Sunrise Gun
★ 0.01959
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
★ 10.01977
La Conga Nights
★ 7.71940
Night Waitress
★ 6.41936
Top Sergeant Mulligan
★ 6.51941
King of Hockey
★ 5.41936
Wine, Women and Horses
★ 5.31937
All American Chump
★ 6.21936
Romance in the Air
★ 10.01936
Blame It on Love
★ 4.81940