Frank Faylen
Born December 8, 1905 · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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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It's a Wonderful World
Away All Boats
The Pride of the Yankees
Detective Story
The Blue Dahlia
The Sky Parade
Blue Skies
The Lusty Men
The Gang's All Here
The Sniper
Kid Galahad
Blood on the Moon
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Too Hot to Handle
About Face
Edison, the Man
Across the Pacific
Variety Girl
Road Gang
They Drive by Night
Copper Canyon
See Here, Private Hargrove
Wake Island
7th Cavalry
Idiot's Delight
Welcome Stranger
Riot in Cell Block 11
The Palm Beach Story
The Fighting 69th
The Lone Gun
Hangman's Knot
Incendiary Blonde
California
The Go-Getter
Road to Rio
A Guy Named Joe
The Monkey's Uncle
Corvette K-225
The Perils of Pauline
Bullets or Ballots
My Favorite Spy
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Francis
Nazty Nuisance
Star Spangled Rhythm
Night Waitress
The Nevadan
Model Wife
The Eagle and the Hawk
Invisible Stripes
99 River Street
And the Angels Sing
A-Haunting We Will Go
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Married and in Love
To Each His Own
Somewhere I'll Find You
The Trouble with Women
East of the River
Slightly Dangerous
Whispering Smith
Dino
Brother Orchid
City for Conquest
The Canterville Ghost
Thank Your Lucky Stars
You Can't Get Away with Murder
Headin' East
Father Steps Out
Convicted
The Unknown Guest
Smart Blonde
King of Hockey
Two Years Before the Mast
Wine, Women and Horses
Mission to Moscow
Castle on the Hudson
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Steel Against the Sky
Nick Carter, Master Detective
China Clipper
Come Live with Me
Blossoms in the Dust
Border Flight
The McConnell Story
Everything But the Truth
Thunder Afloat
Joe Smith, American
No Place to Go
No Time for Comedy
Race Street
San Quentin
Alice in Movieland
Five Came Back
That Certain Woman
Red Garters
The Affairs of Susan
Curtain Call
Cross My Heart
Get Going
The Cherokee Strip
When the Boys Meet the Girls
Women in the Wind
Passage West
Bring on the Girls
Pop Always Pays
Footsteps in the Dark
Yanks Ahoy
Dance Charlie Dance
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Thieves Fall Out
Waterfront
You Came Along
Slapsie Maxie's
The Falcon Strikes Back
La Conga Nights
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Mokey
Silver Skates
They Won't Forget
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
The Flying Irishman
Young Ideas
Lucky Night
Back in Circulation
Whispering Ghosts
Maisie Gets Her Man
Ever Since Eve
Twelve Crowded Hours
Address Unknown
Easy Come, Easy Go
Three Brave Men
No Time to Marry
Taxi, Mister
Midnight Court
Dixie Dugan
Fluffy
All American Chump
Let's Go Collegiate
Good Morning, Judge
The Invisible Menace
The Looters
Standing Room Only
Prairie Chickens
Suddenly It's Spring
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
The Well Groomed Bride
Tough as They Come
Tanks a Million
Reno
Saturday's Children
Romance in the Air
Fall In
Just a Cute Kid
Terror at Midnight
Masquerade in Mexico
Blame It on Love
Hazard
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
