Frank Faylen

Actor

Born: December 8, 1905
Died: August 2, 1985 (age 79)
From: 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.

Filmography (174)

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987)
Self (archive footage)
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis? (1977)
Herbert T. Gillis
Funny Girl (1968)
Keeney
When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965)
Phin Gray
The Monkey's Uncle (1965)
Mr. Dearborne
Fluffy (1965)
Catfish
North to Alaska (1960)
Arnie (uncredited)
Dino (1957)
Frank Mandel
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Sheriff Cotton Wilson
7th Cavalry (1956)
Sgt. Kruger
Three Brave Men (1956)
Enos Warren
Everything But the Truth (1956)
'Mac' McMillan
Away All Boats (1956)
Chief Phillip P. 'Pappy' Moran
Terror at Midnight (1956)
Fred Hill
The McConnell Story (1955)
Sfc. Sykes
The Looters (1955)
Stan Leppich
The Lone Gun (1954)
Fairweather
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
Commissioner Haskell
Red Garters (1954)
Billy Buckett
99 River Street (1953)
Stan Hogan
Hangman's Knot (1952)
Cass Browne
The Lusty Men (1952)
Al Dawson
The Sniper (1952)
Anderson
My Favorite Spy (1951)
Newton
Detective Story (1951)
Det. Gallagher
Passage West (1951)
Curly
Fourteen Hours (1951)
Walter, room service waiter
Copper Canyon (1950)
Mullins
The Eagle and the Hawk (1950)
Red' Hyatt - Danzeeger's Foreman
Convicted (1950)
Convict Ponti