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
Movies
- The Grapes of Wrath
1940
- It's a Wonderful Life
1946
- When the Boys Meet the ...
1965
- Detective Story
1951
- The Reluctant Dragon
1941
- You Came Along
1945
- Gunfight at the O.K. Co...
1957
- Road to Rio
1947
- The Palm Beach Story
1942
- The Sniper
1952
- Come Live with Me
1941
- Riot in Cell Block 11
1954
- The Lost Weekend
1945
- Terror at Midnight
1956
- Convicted
1950
- Blood on the Moon
1948
- 99 River Street
1953
- 7th Cavalry
1956
- The Lusty Men
1952
- Funny Girl
1968
- The Blue Dahlia
1946
- The Nevadan
1950
- It's a Wonderful World
1939
- Nick Carter, Master Det...
1939
- The Story of Vernon and...
1939
- They Won't Forget
1937
- The Canterville Ghost
1944
- Away All Boats
1956
- Kid Galahad
1937
- Fourteen Hours
1951
- Blue Skies
1946
- Hangman's Knot
1952
- To Each His Own
1946
- Race Street
1948
- Whispering Ghosts
1942
- Thunder Afloat
1939
- Maisie Gets Her Man
1942
- The McConnell Story
1955
- Copper Canyon
1950
- My Favorite Spy
1951
- North to Alaska
1960
- Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
- Address Unknown
1944
- California
1947
- San Quentin
1937
- Variety Girl
1947
- The Mystery of the 13th...
1943
- The Perils of Pauline
1947
- Curtain Call
1940
- Taxi, Mister
1943
- The Affairs of Susan
1945
- The Looters
1955
- Dino
1957
- The Pride of the Yankees
1942
- Fluffy
1965
- The Lone Gun
1954
- Passage West
1951
- Road Gang
1936
- Standing Room Only
1944
- No Place to Go
1939
- King of Hockey
1936
- Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
- Three Brave Men
1956
- Everything But the Truth
1956
- And the Angels Sing
1944
- Welcome Stranger
1947
- Across the Pacific
1942
- Reno
1939
- The Monkey's Uncle
1965
- Two Years Before the Ma...
1946
- Married and in Love
1940
- Let's Go Collegiate
1941
- H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941
- Somewhere I'll Find You
1942
- Blame It on Love
1940
- Alice in Movieland
1940
- Waterfront
1939
- Whatever Happened to Do...
1977
- Silver Skates
1943
- Women in the Wind
1939
- The Fighting 69th
1940
- Wine, Women and Horses
1937
- Whispering Smith
1948
- The Invisible Menace
1938
- Hazard
1948
- Ever Since Eve
1937
- Masquerade in Mexico
1945
- Cross My Heart
1946
- The Case of the Stutter...
1937
- Dance Charlie Dance
1937
- Idiot's Delight
1939
- The Flying Irishman
1939
- Prairie Chickens
1943
- Lucky Night
1939
- Five Came Back
1939
- Gone with the Wind
1939
- Steel Against the Sky
1941
- Francis
1950
- Thieves Fall Out
1941
- Our Hearts Were Growing...
1946
- The Cherokee Strip
1937
- Midnight Court
1937
- Wake Island
1942
- Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
- Night Waitress
1936
- Smart Blonde
1937
- Dixie Dugan
1943
- The Unknown Guest
1943
- The Gang's All Here
1943
- The Sky Parade
1936
- Suddenly It's Spring
1947
- Brother Orchid
1940
- Edison, the Man
1940
- All American Chump
1936
- No Time to Marry
1938
- Just a Cute Kid
1940
- Father Steps Out
1941
- Good Morning, Judge
1943
- Tanks a Million
1941
- Get Going
1943
- Fall In
1942
- Yanks Ahoy
1943
- Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941
- A-Haunting We Will Go
1942
- Red Garters
1954
- Andy Hardy's Blonde Tro...
1944
- Sergeant York
1941
- City for Conquest
1940
- Saturday's Children
1940
- No Time for Comedy
1940
- Back in Circulation
1937
- East of the River
1940
- Castle on the Hudson
1940
- They Drive by Night
1940
- Pop Always Pays
1940
- You Can't Get Away with...
1939
- Young Ideas
1943
- Double Exposure
1935
- La Conga Nights
1940
- The Eagle and the Hawk
1950
- Tough as They Come
1942
- The Trouble with Women
1947
- Corvette K-225
1943
- Border Flight
1936
- Model Wife
1941
- About Face
1942
- Mokey
1942
- Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
- Slightly Dangerous
1943
- The Go-Getter
1937
- Crime Rave
1939
- The Well Groomed Bride
1946
- Marked Woman
1937
- Bombalera
1945
- Bring on the Girls
1945
- A Guy Named Joe
1943
- Mission to Moscow
1943
- Slapsie Maxie's
1939
- Blossoms in the Dust
1941
- Nazty Nuisance
1943
- The Falcon Strikes Back
1943
- James Stewart: A Wonder...
1988
- Bullets or Ballots
1936
- China Clipper
1936
- Twelve Crowded Hours
1939
- Incendiary Blonde
1945
- Invisible Stripes
1939
- See Here, Private Hargr...
1944
- Joe Smith, American
1942
- Footsteps in the Dark
1941
- Headin' East
1937
TV Shows
- The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
- The Great Adventure
1963
- That Girl
1966
- The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
- Petticoat Junction
1963
- General Electric Theater
1953
- Man with a Camera
1958
- My Mother the Car
1965
- Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
- Racket Squad
1951
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey...
1956
- Telephone Time
1956
- The Many Loves of Dobie...
1959
- Maverick
1957
- The Bob Hope Show
1950
- Quincy, M.E.
1976