Frank Faylen

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Acting

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.

Filmography

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