Frank Faylen

Known for Acting

Frank Faylen's portrait

Details

Birthday: December 08, 1905

Deathday: August 02, 1985

Place of birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

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.

Actor

1987

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

1977

Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?

1968

Funny Girl

1965

When the Boys Meet the Girls

1965

Fluffy

1965

The Monkey's Uncle

1960

North to Alaska

1959

The Sunrise Gun

1957

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

1957

Dino

1956

Terror at Midnight

1956

7th Cavalry

1956

Away All Boats

1956

Three Brave Men

1956

Everything But the Truth

1955

The McConnell Story

1955

The Looters

1954

Riot in Cell Block 11

1954

The Lone Gun

1954

Red Garters

1953

99 River Street

1952

The Sniper

1952

The Lusty Men

1952

Hangman's Knot

1951

Detective Story

1951

Fourteen Hours

1951

My Favorite Spy

1951

Passage West

1950

Convicted

1950

The Nevadan

1950

Copper Canyon

1950

Francis

1950

The Eagle and the Hawk

1948

Blood on the Moon

1948

Race Street

1948

Whispering Smith

1948

Hazard

1947

Road to Rio

1947

California

1947

Variety Girl

1947

The Perils of Pauline

1947

Easy Come, Easy Go

1947

Welcome Stranger

1947

Suddenly It's Spring

1947

The Trouble with Women

1946

It's a Wonderful Life

1946

The Blue Dahlia

1946

Blue Skies

1946

To Each His Own

1946

Two Years Before the Mast

1946

Cross My Heart

1946

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

1946

The Well Groomed Bride

1945

You Came Along

1945

The Lost Weekend

1945

The Affairs of Susan

1945

Masquerade in Mexico

1945

Bombalera

1945

Bring on the Girls

1945

Incendiary Blonde

1944

The Canterville Ghost

1944

Address Unknown

1944

Standing Room Only

1944

And the Angels Sing

1944

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

1944

A Guy Named Joe

1944

See Here, Private Hargrove

1943

The Mystery of the 13th Guest

1943

Taxi, Mister

1943

Silver Skates

1943

Prairie Chickens

1943

Thank Your Lucky Stars

1943

Dixie Dugan

1943

The Unknown Guest

1943

The Gang's All Here

1943

Good Morning, Judge

1943

Get Going

1943

Yanks Ahoy

1943

Young Ideas

1943

Corvette K-225

1943

Slightly Dangerous

1943

Mission to Moscow

1943

Nazty Nuisance

1943

The Falcon Strikes Back

1942

The Palm Beach Story

1942

Whispering Ghosts

1942

Maisie Gets Her Man

1942

Star Spangled Rhythm

1942

The Pride of the Yankees

1942

Across the Pacific

1942

Somewhere I'll Find You

1942

Wake Island

1942

Fall In

1942

A-Haunting We Will Go

1942

Tough as They Come

1942

About Face

1942

Mokey

1942

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942

Joe Smith, American

1941

The Reluctant Dragon

1941

Come Live with Me

1941

Let's Go Collegiate

1941

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

1941

Steel Against the Sky

1941

Thieves Fall Out

1941

Father Steps Out

1941

Tanks a Million

1941

Top Sergeant Mulligan

1941

Sergeant York

1941

Model Wife

1941

Blossoms in the Dust

1941

Footsteps in the Dark

1940

The Grapes of Wrath

1940

Curtain Call

1940

Married and in Love

1940

Blame It on Love

1940

Alice in Movieland

1940

The Fighting 69th

1940

Brother Orchid

1940

Edison, the Man

1940

Just a Cute Kid

1940

City for Conquest

1940

Saturday's Children

1940

No Time for Comedy

1940

East of the River

1940

Castle on the Hudson

1940

They Drive by Night

1940

Pop Always Pays

1940

La Conga Nights

1939

It's a Wonderful World

1939

Nick Carter, Master Detective

1939

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

1939

Thunder Afloat

1939

No Place to Go

1939

Reno

1939

Waterfront

1939

Women in the Wind

1939

Idiot's Delight

1939

The Flying Irishman

1939

Lucky Night

1939

Five Came Back

1939

Gone with the Wind

1939

You Can't Get Away with Murder

1939

Crime Rave

1939

Slapsie Maxie's

1939

Twelve Crowded Hours

1939

Invisible Stripes

1938

The Invisible Menace

1938

No Time to Marry

1938

Too Hot to Handle

1937

They Won't Forget

1937

Kid Galahad

1937

San Quentin

1937

Wine, Women and Horses

1937

Ever Since Eve

1937

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

1937

Dance Charlie Dance

1937

The Cherokee Strip

1937

Midnight Court

1937

Smart Blonde

1937

Back in Circulation

1937

The Go-Getter

1937

Marked Woman

1937

Headin' East

1937

That Certain Woman

1936

Road Gang

1936

King of Hockey

1936

Night Waitress

1936

The Sky Parade

1936

All American Chump

1936

Border Flight

1936

Bullets or Ballots

1936

China Clipper

1936

Romance in the Air

1935

Double Exposure