Frank Faylen
Known for: Acting
Born: December 8, 1905
Died: August 2, 1985
Place of birth: 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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Filmography
174 movies · 16 TV shows, newest first
6.5
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
10.0
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
1977
7.5
Quincy, M.E.
1976
7.2
Funny Girl
1968
6.2
That Girl
1966
4.8
When the Boys Meet the Girls
1965
4.8
My Mother the Car
1965
5.9
The Monkey's Uncle
1965
7.0
Fluffy
1965
10.0
The Great Adventure
1963
5.9
Petticoat Junction
1963
6.9
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
6.5
North to Alaska
1960
6.3
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959
5.5
Man with a Camera
1958
7.0
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
7.0
Maverick
1957
7.4
Dino
1957
7.0
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
6.1
7th Cavalry
1956
6.3
Three Brave Men
1956
8.2
Everything But the Truth
1956
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
5.3
Away All Boats
1956
5.2
Terror at Midnight
1956
6.5
Telephone Time
1956
6.8
The McConnell Story
1955
6.1
The Looters
1955
5.6
The Lone Gun
1954
7.1
Riot in Cell Block 11
1954
5.0
Red Garters
1954
6.8
99 River Street
1953
6.8
General Electric Theater
1953
6.6
Hangman's Knot
1952
6.7
The Lusty Men
1952
6.7
The Sniper
1952
6.0
My Favorite Spy
1951
7.0
Detective Story
1951
6.6
Passage West
1951
6.5
Racket Squad
1951
7.3
Fourteen Hours
1951
5.7
Copper Canyon
1950
5.9
The Eagle and the Hawk
1950
6.9
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
6.2
Convicted
1950
7.0
The Bob Hope Show
1950
5.8
Francis
1950
5.9
The Nevadan
1950
6.7
Whispering Smith
1948
6.2
Blood on the Moon
1948
6.0
Race Street
1948
8.0
Hazard
1948
6.8
Road to Rio
1947
6.5
Variety Girl
1947
6.7
The Perils of Pauline
1947
9.5
The Trouble with Women
1947
6.9
Welcome Stranger
1947
7.0
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
6.8
California
1947
4.3
Suddenly It's Spring
1947
8.3
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
9.0
Cross My Heart
1946
6.5
Two Years Before the Mast
1946
6.2
Blue Skies
1946
6.5
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946
5.7
The Well Groomed Bride
1946
6.7
The Blue Dahlia
1946
7.0
To Each His Own
1946
6.0
Masquerade in Mexico
1945
7.6
The Lost Weekend
1945
5.1
Incendiary Blonde
1945
6.5
The Affairs of Susan
1945
7.3
You Came Along
1945
6.3
Bring on the Girls
1945NR
Bombalera
1945
6.9
The Canterville Ghost
1944
6.4
Address Unknown
1944
6.3
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944
7.3
And the Angels Sing
1944
6.5
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944
6.7
A Guy Named Joe
1944
5.7
Standing Room Only
1944
5.9
The Gang's All Here
1943
5.7
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943
7.0
The Unknown Guest
1943
6.2
Corvette K-225
1943
6.2
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
4.1
Nazty Nuisance
1943
5.3
Young Ideas
1943
6.6
Yanks Ahoy
1943
7.0
Get Going
1943
8.0
Prairie Chickens
1943
10.0
Good Morning, Judge
1943
5.7
Mission to Moscow
1943
4.2
Taxi, Mister
1943
6.0
Slightly Dangerous
1943
5.7
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943
6.5
Dixie Dugan
1943
6.3
Silver Skates
1943
6.5
Fall In
1942
6.6
Across the Pacific
1942
7.0
The Palm Beach Story
1942
5.7
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942
5.9
Wake Island
1942
6.2
A-Haunting We Will Go
1942
7.3
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
9.0
Tough as They Come
1942
6.7
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942
7.0
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
6.8
Whispering Ghosts
1942
6.6
About Face
1942
6.7
Mokey
1942
6.2
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
6.5
Joe Smith, American
1942
5.4
Steel Against the Sky
1941
7.1
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941
6.5
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941
7.2
Sergeant York
1941
5.4
Let's Go Collegiate
1941
5.8
Tanks a Million
1941
6.6
Blossoms in the Dust
1941
6.5
Father Steps Out
1941
6.6
The Reluctant Dragon
1941
6.0
Thieves Fall Out
1941
6.5
Model Wife
1941
7.0
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
6.8
Come Live with Me
1941
6.3
East of the River
1940
7.0
Just a Cute Kid
1940
6.9
City for Conquest
1940
5.3
No Time for Comedy
1940
6.9
They Drive by Night
1940
6.7
Pop Always Pays
1940
4.8
Blame It on Love
1940
6.6
Brother Orchid
1940
7.7
La Conga Nights
1940
6.8
Edison, the Man
1940
6.9
Saturday's Children
1940
7.3
Curtain Call
1940
7.8
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
6.4
Alice in Movieland
1940
7.0
Castle on the Hudson
1940
5.8
The Fighting 69th
1940
5.7
Married and in Love
1940
6.2
Invisible Stripes
1939
7.9
Gone with the Wind
1939
6.0
Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939
6.7
Reno
1939
8.0
No Place to Go
1939
6.0
Slapsie Maxie's
1939
6.1
Thunder Afloat
1939
6.5
Waterfront
1939
6.3
Five Came Back
1939
6.5
It's a Wonderful World
1939
6.8
Lucky Night
1939
6.8
Women in the Wind
1939
5.0
The Flying Irishman
1939
7.0
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939
5.8
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939
5.7
Twelve Crowded Hours
1939
6.1
Idiot's Delight
19399.0
Crime Rave
1939
6.0
Too Hot to Handle
1938
7.0
No Time to Marry
1938
4.3
The Invisible Menace
1938
10.0
Headin' East
1937
5.3
Wine, Women and Horses
1937
5.6
That Certain Woman
1937
6.5
Back in Circulation
1937
5.8
Ever Since Eve
1937
5.9
They Won't Forget
1937
8.0
Dance Charlie Dance
1937
7.2
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
1937
7.1
Kid Galahad
1937
6.7
San Quentin
1937
6.2
The Go-Getter
1937
6.5
The Cherokee Strip
1937
6.6
Marked Woman
1937
5.1
Midnight Court
1937
6.4
Smart Blonde
1937
5.4
King of Hockey
1936
6.4
Night Waitress
1936
6.2
All American Chump
1936
8.0
The Sky Parade
1936
5.8
China Clipper
1936
6.6
Bullets or Ballots
1936
6.5
Border Flight
1936
10.0
Romance in the Air
1936
7.0
Road Gang
1936
7.4
Double Exposure
1935