Frank Faylen
Acting
- Born:
- 1905-12-08
- Died:
- 1985-08-02
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
Quincy, M.E.
Funny Girl
That Girl
When the Boys Meet the Girls
My Mother the Car
The Monkey's Uncle
Fluffy
The Great Adventure
Petticoat Junction
The Beverly Hillbillies
North to Alaska
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Man with a Camera
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Maverick
Dino
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
7th Cavalry
Three Brave Men
Everything But the Truth
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Away All Boats
Terror at Midnight
Telephone Time
The McConnell Story
The Looters
The Lone Gun
Riot in Cell Block 11
Red Garters
99 River Street
General Electric Theater
Hangman's Knot
The Lusty Men
The Sniper
My Favorite Spy
Detective Story
Passage West
Racket Squad
Fourteen Hours
Copper Canyon
The Eagle and the Hawk
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Convicted
The Bob Hope Show
Francis
The Nevadan
Whispering Smith
Blood on the Moon
Race Street
Hazard
Road to Rio
Variety Girl
The Perils of Pauline
The Trouble with Women
Welcome Stranger
Easy Come, Easy Go
California
Suddenly It's Spring