Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 08, 1905
Died
Aug 02, 1985
Place of Birth
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Credits
190 titles
Frank Faylen
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.
Known For
Filmography
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
Herbert T. Gillis
Quincy, M.E.
Janus
Funny Girl
Keeney
That Girl
When the Boys Meet the Girls
Phin Gray
My Mother the Car
The Monkey's Uncle
Mr. Dearborne
Fluffy
Catfish
The Great Adventure
O'Brien
Petticoat Junction
Ralph
The Beverly Hillbillies
North to Alaska
Arnie (uncredited)
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Herbert T. Gillis
Man with a Camera
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Sheriff Earl Tipton
Maverick
Red Harrison
Dino
Frank Mandel
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Sheriff Cotton Wilson
7th Cavalry
Sgt. Kruger
Everything But the Truth
'Mac' McMillan
Three Brave Men
Enos Warren
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Doc Alvarez
Away All Boats
Chief Phillip P. 'Pappy' Moran
Terror at Midnight
Fred Hill
Telephone Time
The McConnell Story
Sfc. Sykes
The Looters
Stan Leppich
The Lone Gun
Fairweather
Riot in Cell Block 11
Commissioner Haskell
Red Garters
Billy Buckett
99 River Street
Stan Hogan
General Electric Theater
Farber
Hangman's Knot
Cass Browne
The Lusty Men
Al Dawson
The Sniper
Anderson
My Favorite Spy
Newton
Detective Story
Det. Gallagher
Passage West
Curly
Racket Squad
Fourteen Hours
Walter, room service waiter
Copper Canyon
Mullins
The Eagle and the Hawk
Red' Hyatt - Danzeeger's Foreman
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
Convicted
Convict Ponti
The Bob Hope Show
Self
Francis
Sergeant Chillingbacker
The Nevadan
Jeff
Whispering Smith
Whitey Du Sang
Blood on the Moon
Jake Pindalest