Frank Faylen
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday8 December 1905
Died2 August 1985 (age 79)
Place of birthSaint Louis, Missouri, USA
Known credits190
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.
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987 · Self (archive footage)
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
1977 · Herbert T. Gillis
Quincy, M.E.
1976 · Janus
Funny Girl
1968 · Keeney
That Girl
1966
When the Boys Meet the Girls
1965 · Phin Gray
My Mother the Car
1965
The Monkey's Uncle
1965 · Mr. Dearborne
Fluffy
1965 · Catfish
The Great Adventure
1963 · O'Brien
Petticoat Junction
1963 · Ralph
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
North to Alaska
1960 · Arnie (uncredited)
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959 · Herbert T. Gillis
Man with a Camera
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958 · Sheriff Earl Tipton
Maverick
1957 · Red Harrison
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
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Doc Alvarez
Away All Boats
1956 · Chief Phillip P. 'Pappy' Moran
Terror at Midnight
1956 · Fred Hill
Telephone Time
1956
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
General Electric Theater
1953 · Farber
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
Racket Squad
1951
Fourteen Hours
1951 · Walter, room service waiter
Copper Canyon
1950 · Mullins
The Eagle and the Hawk
1950 · Red' Hyatt - Danzeeger's Foreman
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Self
Convicted
1950 · Convict Ponti
The Bob Hope Show
1950 · Self
Francis
1950 · Sergeant Chillingbacker
The Nevadan
1950 · Jeff
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