Frank Faylen
Acting
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.
Filmography 190
Movies (174)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life1987Self (archive footage)
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?1977Herbert T. Gillis
Funny Girl1968Keeney
When the Boys Meet the Girls1965Phin Gray
The Monkey's Uncle1965Mr. Dearborne
Fluffy1965Catfish
North to Alaska1960Arnie (uncredited)
Dino1957Frank Mandel
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral1957Sheriff Cotton Wilson
7th Cavalry1956Sgt. Kruger
Three Brave Men1956Enos Warren
Everything But the Truth1956'Mac' McMillan
Away All Boats1956Chief Phillip P. 'Pappy' Moran
Terror at Midnight1956Fred Hill
The McConnell Story1955Sfc. Sykes
The Looters1955Stan Leppich
The Lone Gun1954Fairweather
Riot in Cell Block 111954Commissioner Haskell
Red Garters1954Billy Buckett
99 River Street1953Stan Hogan
Hangman's Knot1952Cass Browne
The Lusty Men1952Al Dawson
The Sniper1952Anderson
My Favorite Spy1951Newton
Detective Story1951Det. Gallagher
Passage West1951Curly
Fourteen Hours1951Walter, room service waiter
Copper Canyon1950Mullins
The Eagle and the Hawk1950Red' Hyatt - Danzeeger's Foreman
Convicted1950Convict Ponti
Shows (16)
Quincy, M.E.1976Janus
That Girl1966
My Mother the Car1965
The Great Adventure1963O'Brien
Petticoat Junction1963Ralph
The Beverly Hillbillies1962
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis1959Herbert T. Gillis
Man with a Camera1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive1958Sheriff Earl Tipton
Maverick1957Red Harrison
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956Doc Alvarez
Telephone Time1956
General Electric Theater1953Farber
Racket Squad1951
The Colgate Comedy Hour1950Self
The Bob Hope Show1950Self