Frank Faylen
Acting

Frank Faylen

Born 8 December 1905 · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA · Died 2 August 1985

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

It's a Wonderful Life
The Grapes of Wrath
The Lost Weekend
Funny Girl
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
The Blue Dahlia
Detective Story
The Lusty Men
The Sniper
99 River Street
Riot in Cell Block 11
Blood on the Moon
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
Funny Girl
When the Boys Meet the Girls
Fluffy
The Monkey's Uncle
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Dino
Terror at Midnight
7th Cavalry
Away All Boats
Three Brave Men
Everything But the Truth
The McConnell Story
The Looters
Riot in Cell Block 11
The Lone Gun
Red Garters
99 River Street
The Sniper
The Lusty Men
Hangman's Knot
Detective Story
Fourteen Hours
My Favorite Spy
Passage West
Convicted
The Nevadan
Copper Canyon
Francis
The Eagle and the Hawk
Blood on the Moon
Race Street
Whispering Smith
Hazard
Road to Rio
California
Variety Girl
The Perils of Pauline
Easy Come, Easy Go
Welcome Stranger
Suddenly It's Spring
The Trouble with Women
It's a Wonderful Life
The Blue Dahlia
To Each His Own
Two Years Before the Mast
Cross My Heart
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
The Well Groomed Bride
The Lost Weekend
Bring on the Girls
The Canterville Ghost
Address Unknown
Standing Room Only
And the Angels Sing
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Taxi, Mister
Silver Skates
Prairie Chickens
Good Morning, Judge
Get Going
Yanks Ahoy
Corvette K-225
Nazty Nuisance
Whispering Ghosts
Somewhere I'll Find You
Wake Island
Fall In
Tough as They Come
About Face
Mokey
A-Haunting We Will Go
Come Live with Me
Let's Go Collegiate
Thieves Fall Out
Father Steps Out
Tanks a Million
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Model Wife
Blossoms in the Dust
The Grapes of Wrath
Curtain Call
Married and in Love
Blame It on Love
Edison, the Man
Just a Cute Kid
No Time for Comedy
Pop Always Pays
La Conga Nights
Nick Carter, Master Detective
No Place to Go
Reno
Waterfront
Idiot's Delight
The Flying Irishman
Slapsie Maxie's
The Invisible Menace
No Time to Marry
They Won't Forget
Kid Galahad
Wine, Women and Horses
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Dance Charlie Dance
The Cherokee Strip
Midnight Court
Headin' East
King of Hockey
Night Waitress
Border Flight
Romance in the Air
Frank Faylen · Midrow