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Frank Faylen

Actor

Frank Faylen

8 December 1905† 2 August 1985 (aged 79) Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Movies
174
Shows
15

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.

IMDb

Known For

It's a Wonderful Life

8.31946

Gone with the Wind

7.91939

The Grapes of Wrath

7.81940

The Lost Weekend

7.61945

Funny Girl

7.11968

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

7.01957

Sergeant York

7.21941

Yankee Doodle Dandy

7.01942

The Palm Beach Story

7.01942

The Blue Dahlia

6.71946

Detective Story

7.11951

The Reluctant Dragon

6.61941

The Pride of the Yankees

7.31942

North to Alaska

6.51960

They Drive by Night

6.91940

The Beverly Hillbillies

6.91962

Quincy, M.E.

7.51976

The Lusty Men

6.71952

Across the Pacific

6.61942

The Sniper

6.71952

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

6.51987

Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?

10.01977

Funny Girl

7.11968

When the Boys Meet the Girls

4.81965

The Monkey's Uncle

5.81965

Fluffy

7.01965

North to Alaska

6.51960

Dino

7.41957

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

7.01957

7th Cavalry

6.11956

Three Brave Men

6.31956

Everything But the Truth

8.21956

Away All Boats

5.31956

Terror at Midnight

5.21956

The McConnell Story

6.81955

The Looters

6.11955

The Lone Gun

5.61954

Riot in Cell Block 11

7.11954

Red Garters

5.01954

99 River Street

6.81953

Hangman's Knot

6.51952

The Lusty Men

6.71952

The Sniper

6.71952

My Favorite Spy

6.01951

Detective Story

7.11951

Passage West

6.61951

Fourteen Hours

7.31951

Copper Canyon

5.71950

The Eagle and the Hawk

5.91950

Convicted

6.21950

Francis

5.81950

The Nevadan

5.91950

Whispering Smith

6.71948

Blood on the Moon

6.21948

Race Street

6.01948

Hazard

8.01948

Road to Rio

6.81947

Variety Girl

6.51947

The Perils of Pauline

6.71947

The Trouble with Women

9.51947

Welcome Stranger

6.91947

Easy Come, Easy Go

7.01947

California

6.81947

Suddenly It's Spring

4.21947

It's a Wonderful Life

8.31946

Cross My Heart

9.01946

Two Years Before the Mast

6.51946

Blue Skies

6.21946

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

6.51946

The Well Groomed Bride

5.71946

The Blue Dahlia

6.71946

To Each His Own

7.11946

Masquerade in Mexico

6.01945

The Lost Weekend

7.61945

Incendiary Blonde

5.11945

The Affairs of Susan

6.51945

You Came Along

7.31945

Bring on the Girls

6.21945

Bombalera

1945

The Canterville Ghost

6.91944