Frank Faylen
Date of Birth:
Dec 08, 1905

Place of Birth:
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

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:

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

1988

Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?

1977

1968

Fluffy

1965

When the Boys Meet the Girls

1965

The Monkey's Uncle

1965

North to Alaska

1960

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

1957

Dino

1957

1956

Terror at Midnight

1956

Everything But the Truth

1956

1956

Three Brave Men

1956

The McConnell Story

1955

1955

1954

1954

Riot in Cell Block 11

1954

99 River Street

1953

1952

1952

1952

1951

My Favorite Spy

1951

1951

Detective Story

1951

1950

The Eagle and the Hawk

1950

1950

Francis

1950

1950

Whispering Smith

1948

Blood on the Moon

1948

1948

Hazard

1948

Easy Come, Easy Go

1947

The Trouble with Women

1947

The Perils of Pauline

1947

1947

Welcome Stranger

1947

Suddenly It's Spring

1947

1947

1947

1946

Two Years Before the Mast

1946

The Well Groomed Bride

1946

The Blue Dahlia

1946

1946

To Each His Own

1946

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

1946

It's a Wonderful Life

1946

Incendiary Blonde

1945

Bring on the Girls

1945

Masquerade in Mexico

1945

1945

The Affairs of Susan

1945

The Lost Weekend

1945

1945

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

1944

Address Unknown

1944

The Canterville Ghost

1944

And the Angels Sing

1944

See Here, Private Hargrove

1944

Standing Room Only

1944

The Unknown Guest

1943

The Gang's All Here

1943

1943

The Falcon Strikes Back

1943

Thank Your Lucky Stars

1943

1943

1943

Slightly Dangerous

1943

1943

1943

A Guy Named Joe

1943

Mission to Moscow

1943

1943

Good Morning, Judge

1943

Prairie Chickens

1943

1943

The Mystery of the 13th Guest

1943

1943

1942

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942

The Palm Beach Story

1942

Tough as They Come

1942

Across the Pacific

1942

Fall In

1942

Somewhere I'll Find You

1942

A-Haunting We Will Go

1942

The Pride of the Yankees

1942

Mokey

1942

Whispering Ghosts

1942

1942

Maisie Gets Her Man

1942

Joe Smith, American

1942

Star Spangled Rhythm

1942

Footsteps in the Dark

1941

Come Live with Me

1941

Top Sergeant Mulligan

1941

Let's Go Collegiate

1941

The Reluctant Dragon

1941

Blossoms in the Dust

1941

Tanks a Million

1941

1941

1941

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

1941

Steel Against the Sky

1941

Father Steps Out

1941

Thieves Fall Out

1941

Blame It on Love

1940

1940

Pop Always Pays

1940

La Conga Nights

1940

The Fighting 69th

1940

Alice in Movieland

1940

They Drive by Night

1940

1940

Edison, the Man

1940

City for Conquest

1940

Castle on the Hudson

1940

Saturday's Children

1940

The Grapes of Wrath

1940

Just a Cute Kid

1940

No Time for Comedy

1940

Married and in Love

1940

East of the River

1940

1939

The Flying Irishman

1939

Idiot's Delight

1939

Slapsie Maxie's

1939

Gone with the Wind

1939

1939

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

1939

Nick Carter, Master Detective

1939

1939

Invisible Stripes

1939

Twelve Crowded Hours

1939

It's a Wonderful World

1939

1939

Reno

1939

1939

You Can't Get Away with Murder

1939

1939

Women in the Wind

1939

The Invisible Menace

1938

No Time To Marry

1938

1937

1937

They Won't Forget

1937

Back in Circulation

1937

1937

1937

1937

Wine, Women and Horses

1937

The Cherokee Strip

1937

1937

1937

Dance Charlie Dance

1937

1937

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

1937

1936

All American Chump

1936

1936

1936

1936

Bullets or Ballots

1936

1936

1936

Double Exposure

1935