Frank Faylen
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.
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
The Colgate Comedy Hour
6.8
The Great Adventure
0
That Girl
6.2
The Beverly Hillbillies
6.8
Petticoat Junction
5.8
General Electric Theater
6.25
Man with a Camera
4.6
My Mother the Car
4.3
Wanted: Dead or Alive
6.894
Racket Squad
6
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
Telephone Time
6.3
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
5.8
Maverick
6.8
The Bob Hope Show
7
Quincy, M.E.
7.5
Movies
The Grapes of Wrath
7.821
It's a Wonderful Life
8.28
When the Boys Meet the Girls
3
Detective Story
7.024
The Reluctant Dragon
6.6
You Came Along
7
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
7.02
Road to Rio
6.7
The Palm Beach Story
7.013
The Sniper
6.7
Come Live with Me
7
Riot in Cell Block 11
6.957
The Lost Weekend
7.628
Terror at Midnight
4.9
Convicted
6.224
Blood on the Moon
6.153
99 River Street
6.831
7th Cavalry
5.7
The Lusty Men
6.6
Funny Girl
7.182
The Blue Dahlia
6.671
The Nevadan
5.8
It's a Wonderful World
6.4
Nick Carter, Master Detective
5.7
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
6.9
They Won't Forget
5.7
The Canterville Ghost
6.7
Away All Boats
5.1
Kid Galahad
7
Fourteen Hours
7.2
Blue Skies
6
Hangman's Knot
6.4
To Each His Own
6.8
Race Street
5.8
Whispering Ghosts
6.417
Thunder Afloat
5.9
Maisie Gets Her Man
6.5
The McConnell Story
6.3
My Favorite Spy
6
Copper Canyon
5.3
North to Alaska
6.5
Star Spangled Rhythm
5.889
Address Unknown
6.4
California
6.5
San Quentin
6.5
Variety Girl
6.1
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
5.4
The Perils of Pauline
6.2
Curtain Call
7.3
Taxi, Mister
4.2
The Affairs of Susan
6.1
The Looters
5.6
Dino
7.2
The Pride of the Yankees
7.36
Fluffy
6.5
The Lone Gun
5.4
Passage West
6.2
Road Gang
6.5
Standing Room Only
5
No Place to Go
6
King of Hockey
5
Easy Come, Easy Go
0
Three Brave Men
4.8
Everything But the Truth
8.2
And the Angels Sing
7
Welcome Stranger
6.6
Across the Pacific
6.6
Reno
6
The Monkey's Uncle
6
Two Years Before the Mast
6.2
Married and in Love
5.3
Let's Go Collegiate
5
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
6.9
Somewhere I'll Find You
5.9
Blame It on Love
2.5
Alice in Movieland
6.3
Waterfront
6.3
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
0
Silver Skates
5
Women in the Wind
6.8
The Fighting 69th
5.4
Wine, Women and Horses
4
Whispering Smith
6.4
The Invisible Menace
4.1
Hazard
8
Ever Since Eve
5.8
Cross My Heart
0
Masquerade in Mexico
5.4
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
6.8
Dance Charlie Dance
6
Idiot's Delight
6.1
The Flying Irishman
4.6
Prairie Chickens
0
Lucky Night
6.6
Five Came Back
6.2
Gone with the Wind
7.934
Steel Against the Sky
5
Francis
5.5
Thieves Fall Out
5.5
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
6.2
The Cherokee Strip
6
Midnight Court
4.8
Wake Island
5.68
Thank Your Lucky Stars
6.147
Night Waitress
5.8
Smart Blonde
6.136
Dixie Dugan
5
The Unknown Guest
0
The Gang's All Here
5.792
The Sky Parade
0
Suddenly It's Spring
4.3
Brother Orchid
6.5
Edison, the Man
6.6
All American Chump
5.8
No Time to Marry
6
Just a Cute Kid
0
Father Steps Out
3
Good Morning, Judge
0
Tanks a Million
5.333
Get Going
0
Fall In
6
Yanks Ahoy
6.333
Top Sergeant Mulligan
5
A-Haunting We Will Go
6
Red Garters
5
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
5.833
Sergeant York
7.197
City for Conquest
6.833
Saturday's Children
6.4
No Time for Comedy
5.4
Back in Circulation
5.3
East of the River
5.7
Castle on the Hudson
6.8
They Drive by Night
6.942
Pop Always Pays
0
You Can't Get Away with Murder
5.6
Young Ideas
4.6
Double Exposure
7
La Conga Nights
7.5
The Eagle and the Hawk
5.4
Tough as They Come
0
The Trouble with Women
0
Corvette K-225
6.1
Border Flight
6
Model Wife
0
About Face
6
Mokey
5
Yankee Doodle Dandy
7.065
Slightly Dangerous
6
The Go-Getter
5.8
Crime Rave
0
The Well Groomed Bride
4
Marked Woman
6.521
Bombalera
0
Bring on the Girls
6.1
A Guy Named Joe
6.558
Mission to Moscow
5.306
Slapsie Maxie's
5
Blossoms in the Dust
6.563
Nazty Nuisance
3.714
The Falcon Strikes Back
5.6
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
6
Bullets or Ballots
6.583
China Clipper
5.6
Twelve Crowded Hours
5.2
Incendiary Blonde
5.1
Invisible Stripes
6.3
See Here, Private Hargrove
6
Joe Smith, American
5.75
Footsteps in the Dark
6.9
Headin' East
0
Romance in the Air
0