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