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Frank Faylen

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1905 - 1985

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.

Birthday: 1905-12-08

Born At: St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

Casted In:

The Grapes of Wrath

Gone with the Wind

It's a Wonderful Life

Funny Girl

The Blue Dahlia

Sergeant York

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

Across the Pacific

The Canterville Ghost

Detective Story

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

The Reluctant Dragon

The Sniper

Castle on the Hudson

Brother Orchid

Bullets or Ballots

Riot in Cell Block 11

The Lost Weekend

Blood on the Moon

Ever Since Eve

Road to Rio

The Palm Beach Story

Too Hot to Handle

Come Live with Me

Convicted

99 River Street

Terror at Midnight

7th Cavalry

The Lusty Men

Francis

Edison, the Man

The Nevadan

It's a Wonderful World

Nick Carter, Master Detective

Kid Galahad

Blue Skies

Hangman's Knot

Fourteen Hours

To Each His Own

Whispering Smith

Idiot's Delight

A-Haunting We Will Go

Somewhere I'll Find You

Five Came Back

The Gang's All Here

The Fighting 69th

Race Street

China Clipper

Invisible Stripes

They Won't Forget

Away All Boats

Blossoms in the Dust

Hazard

The Monkey's Uncle

You Can't Get Away with Murder

Smart Blonde

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Tanks a Million

Whispering Ghosts

Thunder Afloat

Mokey

Maisie Gets Her Man

The Flying Irishman

Steel Against the Sky

Nazty Nuisance

The McConnell Story

Copper Canyon

My Favorite Spy

Star Spangled Rhythm

California

Variety Girl

Welcome Stranger

The Cherokee Strip

Incendiary Blonde

The Mystery of the 13th Guest

Twelve Crowded Hours

Address Unknown

No Time for Comedy

East of the River

Saturday's Children

Pop Always Pays

The Perils of Pauline

Red Garters

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

Mission to Moscow

Lucky Night

Slightly Dangerous

Corvette K-225

Midnight Court

Suddenly It's Spring

Wine, Women and Horses

Women in the Wind

The Invisible Menace

Dance Charlie Dance

The Affairs of Susan

The Looters

Double Exposure

The Lone Gun

Curtain Call

Married and in Love

Young Ideas

Night Waitress

Thieves Fall Out

The Eagle and the Hawk

The Go-Getter

Standing Room Only

Bombalera

No Place to Go

King of Hockey

Easy Come, Easy Go

Three Brave Men

Everything But the Truth

And the Angels Sing

Two Years Before the Mast

All American Chump

Let's Go Collegiate

Waterfront

Bring on the Girls

Cross My Heart

The Well Groomed Bride

Alice in Movieland

Back in Circulation

Dixie Dugan

Masquerade in Mexico

Prairie Chickens

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

No Time To Marry

Good Morning, Judge

Top Sergeant Mulligan

La Conga Nights

Get Going

Tough as They Come