Frank Faylen
Acting
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.
As actor 190
Maverick
1957
Quincy, M.E.
1976
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Petticoat Junction
1963
The Bob Hope Show
1950
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
That Girl
1966
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959
Gone with the Wind
1939
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
Telephone Time
1956
The Great Adventure
1963
Racket Squad
1951
My Mother the Car
1965
Man with a Camera
1958
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
Sergeant York
1941
Funny Girl
1968
The Lost Weekend
1945
General Electric Theater
1953
Fourteen Hours
1951
Blood on the Moon
1948
The Reluctant Dragon
1941
Detective Story
1951
The Sniper
1952
Kid Galahad
1937
North to Alaska
1960
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
Across the Pacific
1942
The Palm Beach Story
1942
It's a Wonderful World
1939
Whispering Smith
1948
The Gang's All Here
1943
The Lusty Men
1952
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
Blue Skies
1946
Francis
1950
My Favorite Spy
1951
A Guy Named Joe
1944
They Drive by Night
1940
Away All Boats
1956
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941
Hangman's Knot
1952
99 River Street
1953
7th Cavalry
1956
The Blue Dahlia
1946
Riot in Cell Block 11
1954
A-Haunting We Will Go
1942
Edison, the Man
1940
The Monkey's Uncle
1965
Steel Against the Sky
1941
The Perils of Pauline
1947
Invisible Stripes
1939
Idiot's Delight
1939
To Each His Own
1946
Bullets or Ballots
1936
City for Conquest
1940
Convicted
1950
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
They Won't Forget
1937
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942
Marked Woman
1937
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946
Castle on the Hudson
1940
No Time for Comedy
1940
Come Live with Me
1941
The Lone Gun
1954
Blossoms in the Dust
1941
East of the River
1940
Incendiary Blonde
1945
The Canterville Ghost
1944
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939
Two Years Before the Mast
1946
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
And the Angels Sing
1944
The Fighting 69th
1940
The Affairs of Susan
1945
The Flying Irishman
1939
Variety Girl
1947
Wake Island
1942
Five Came Back
1939
The Eagle and the Hawk
1950
Headin' East
1937
Brother Orchid
1940
Mission to Moscow
1943
Night Waitress
1936
Welcome Stranger
1947
When the Boys Meet the Girls
1965
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944
Slightly Dangerous
1943
Corvette K-225
1943
Road Gang
1936
Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939
Dino
1957
Address Unknown
1944
Model Wife
1941
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944
Tough as They Come
1942
The Go-Getter
1937
Copper Canyon
1950
The Trouble with Women
1947
Too Hot to Handle
1938
China Clipper
1936
Ever Since Eve
1937
Road to Rio
1947
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943
San Quentin
1937
Married and in Love
1940
Bring on the Girls
1945
No Place to Go
1939
Cross My Heart
1946
The Well Groomed Bride
1946
About Face
1942
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
1937
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
California
1947
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942
The Nevadan
1950
The Unknown Guest
1943
The McConnell Story
1955
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
Lucky Night
1939
Nazty Nuisance
1943
The Invisible Menace
1938
Red Garters
1954
Fluffy
1965
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943
Alice in Movieland
1940
Three Brave Men
1956
Young Ideas
1943
Race Street
1948
Everything But the Truth
1956
Wine, Women and Horses
1937
Women in the Wind
1939
No Time to Marry
1938
That Certain Woman
1937
Smart Blonde
1937
Bombalera
1945
You Came Along
1945
Mokey
1942
Joe Smith, American
1942
Suddenly It's Spring
1947
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
1977
Fall In
1942
Let's Go Collegiate
1941
The Looters
1955
Yanks Ahoy
1943
Thunder Afloat
1939
Hazard
1948
The Sky Parade
1936
Dixie Dugan
1943
Standing Room Only
1944
Terror at Midnight
1956
Tanks a Million
1941
Saturday's Children
1940
Good Morning, Judge
1943
Father Steps Out
1941
Whispering Ghosts
1942
Passage West
1951
Dance Charlie Dance
1937
Thieves Fall Out
1941
Twelve Crowded Hours
1939
Prairie Chickens
1943
Border Flight
1936
Curtain Call
1940
Blame It on Love
1940
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941
King of Hockey
1936
Masquerade in Mexico
1945
Double Exposure
1935
Slapsie Maxie's
1939
La Conga Nights
1940
Midnight Court
1937
Silver Skates
1943
Taxi, Mister
1943
Reno
1939
Back in Circulation
1937
Get Going
1943
Pop Always Pays
1940
Just a Cute Kid
1940
The Cherokee Strip
1937
Waterfront
1939
Romance in the Air
1936
Crime Rave
1939
All American Chump
1936