Acting

Frank Faylen

Born 1905-12-08 · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Died 1985-08-02

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.

Credits

Newest first

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
1987
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
as Herbert T. Gillis
1977
Quincy, M.E.
as Janus
1976
Funny Girl
as Keeney
1968
That Girl
1966
When the Boys Meet the Girls
as Phin Gray
1965
My Mother the Car
1965
The Monkey's Uncle
as Mr. Dearborne
1965
Fluffy
as Catfish
1965
The Great Adventure
as O'Brien
1963
Petticoat Junction
as Ralph
1963
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
North to Alaska
as Arnie (uncredited)
1960
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
as Herbert T. Gillis
1959
Man with a Camera
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Sheriff Earl Tipton
1958
Maverick
as Red Harrison
1957
Dino
as Frank Mandel
1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
as Sheriff Cotton Wilson
1957
7th Cavalry
as Sgt. Kruger
1956
Three Brave Men
as Enos Warren
1956
Everything But the Truth
as 'Mac' McMillan
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Doc Alvarez
1956
Away All Boats
as Chief Phillip P. 'Pappy' Moran
1956
Terror at Midnight
as Fred Hill
1956
Telephone Time
1956
The McConnell Story
as Sfc. Sykes
1955
The Looters
as Stan Leppich
1955
The Lone Gun
as Fairweather
1954
Riot in Cell Block 11
as Commissioner Haskell
1954
Red Garters
as Billy Buckett
1954
99 River Street
as Stan Hogan
1953
General Electric Theater
as Farber
1953
Hangman's Knot
as Cass Browne
1952
The Lusty Men
as Al Dawson
1952
The Sniper
as Anderson
1952
My Favorite Spy
as Newton
1951
Detective Story
as Det. Gallagher
1951
Passage West
as Curly
1951
Racket Squad
1951
Fourteen Hours
as Walter, room service waiter
1951
Copper Canyon
as Mullins
1950
The Eagle and the Hawk
as Red' Hyatt - Danzeeger's Foreman
1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
Convicted
as Convict Ponti
1950
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
Francis
as Sergeant Chillingbacker
1950
The Nevadan
as Jeff
1950
Whispering Smith
as Whitey Du Sang
1948
Blood on the Moon
as Jake Pindalest
1948
Race Street
as Phil Dickson
1948
Hazard
as Oscar
1948
Road to Rio
as Trigger
1947
Variety Girl
as Frank Faylen
1947
The Perils of Pauline
as Mr. Joe Gurt
1947
The Trouble with Women
as Geeger
1947
Welcome Stranger
as Bill Walters
1947
Easy Come, Easy Go
as Boss
1947
California
as Whitey
1947
Suddenly It's Spring
as Harold Michaels
1947
It's a Wonderful Life
as Ernie
1946
Cross My Heart
as Fingerprint Expert
1946
Two Years Before the Mast
as Hansen
1946
Blue Skies
as Mack (uncredited)
1946
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
as Federal Agent
1946
The Well Groomed Bride
as Cabbie
1946
The Blue Dahlia
as Man Recommending Motel
1946
To Each His Own
as Babe
1946
Masquerade in Mexico
as Brooklyn (uncredited)
1945
The Lost Weekend
as 'Bim' Nolan
1945
Incendiary Blonde
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1945
The Affairs of Susan
as Brooklyn Boy (uncredited)
1945
You Came Along
as Bellboy (uncredited)
1945
Bring on the Girls
as Sailor
1945
Bombalera
as Houlihan
1945
The Canterville Ghost
as Lieutenant John Kane
1944
Address Unknown
as Jimmie Blake
1944
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
as Taxi Driver #2 (uncredited)
1944
And the Angels Sing
as Holman
1944
See Here, Private Hargrove
as M.P. (uncredited)
1944