Frank Faylen
Acting
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
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Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
1977
Quincy, M.E.
1976
Funny Girl
1968
That Girl
1966
When the Boys Meet the Girls
1965
My Mother the Car
1965
The Monkey's Uncle
1965
Fluffy
1965
The Great Adventure
1963
Petticoat Junction
1963
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
North to Alaska
1960
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959
Man with a Camera
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
Maverick
1957
Dino
1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
7th Cavalry
1956
Three Brave Men
1956
Everything But the Truth
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Away All Boats
1956
Terror at Midnight
1956
Telephone Time
1956
The McConnell Story
1955
The Looters
1955
The Lone Gun
1954
Riot in Cell Block 11
1954
Red Garters
1954
99 River Street
1953
General Electric Theater
1953
Hangman's Knot
1952
The Lusty Men
1952
The Sniper
1952
My Favorite Spy
1951
Detective Story
1951
Passage West
1951
Racket Squad
1951
Fourteen Hours
1951
Copper Canyon
1950
The Eagle and the Hawk
1950
Convicted
1950
Francis
1950
The Nevadan
1950
Whispering Smith
1948
Blood on the Moon
1948
Race Street
1948
Hazard
1948
Road to Rio
1947
Variety Girl
1947
The Perils of Pauline
1947
The Trouble with Women
1947
Welcome Stranger
1947
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
California
1947
Suddenly It's Spring
1947
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
Cross My Heart
1946
Two Years Before the Mast
1946
Blue Skies
1946
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946
The Well Groomed Bride
1946
The Blue Dahlia
1946
To Each His Own
1946
Masquerade in Mexico
1945
The Lost Weekend
1945
Incendiary Blonde
1945
The Affairs of Susan
1945
You Came Along
1945
Bring on the Girls
1945
Bombalera
Bombalera
1945
The Canterville Ghost
1944
Address Unknown
1944
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944
And the Angels Sing
1944
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944
A Guy Named Joe
1944
Standing Room Only
1944
The Gang's All Here
1943