Frank Faylen
Actor

Frank Faylen

1 Movies
1 Credits
Personal Info
Known For Acting
Known Credits 1
Birthday December 8, 1905 (120 years old)
Place of Birth Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Also Known As Francis Charles Ruf, Frank Ruf, Charles Francis Ruf
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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.

Filmography (191)

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