🎭 Actor
Frank Faylen
🎂 Born 8 December 1905 (age 79)✝ 2 August 1985📍 Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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Popularity Score
172
Acting Credits
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
Full Filmography(172 films)
YearTitleRating
1939Gone with the Wind★ 7.91946It's a Wonderful Life★ 8.31957Gunfight at the O.K. Corral★ 7.01960North to Alaska★ 6.51940The Grapes of Wrath★ 7.81941Sergeant York★ 7.21968Funny Girl★ 7.21937Marked Woman★ 6.61945The Lost Weekend★ 7.61942Wake Island★ 5.91941The Reluctant Dragon★ 6.61946The Blue Dahlia★ 6.71950Convicted★ 6.21942Yankee Doodle Dandy★ 7.11940They Drive by Night★ 6.91952The Sniper★ 6.71952The Lusty Men★ 6.71947Variety Girl★ 6.51956Away All Boats★ 5.41951Detective Story★ 7.11946Blue Skies★ 6.21941Blossoms in the Dust★ 6.71939Invisible Stripes★ 6.21951Fourteen Hours★ 7.31948Blood on the Moon★ 6.21942The Pride of the Yankees★ 7.41936Road Gang★ 7.01942The Palm Beach Story★ 7.01945Incendiary Blonde★ 5.11937Kid Galahad★ 7.01943Thank Your Lucky Stars★ 6.21940Edison, the Man★ 6.81950Copper Canyon★ 5.71940The Fighting 69th★ 5.81946Two Years Before the Mast★ 6.519567th Cavalry★ 6.11936Bullets or Ballots★ 6.61944A Guy Named Joe★ 6.71950Francis★ 5.81951My Favorite Spy★ 6.01942About Face★ 6.61940Brother Orchid★ 6.61987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life★ 6.51937San Quentin★ 6.61940City for Conquest★ 6.91939Five Came Back★ 6.31937That Certain Woman★ 5.71954Riot in Cell Block 11★ 7.11947California★ 6.81948Race Street★ 6.01943The Gang's All Here★ 5.91952Hangman's Knot★ 6.51943Mission to Moscow★ 5.71939Idiot's Delight★ 6.11955The Looters★ 6.11939The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle★ 7.01947Road to Rio★ 6.81946To Each His Own★ 7.01947The Perils of Pauline★ 6.71940No Time for Comedy★ 5.31942Somewhere I'll Find You★ 5.71954The Lone Gun★ 5.61944And the Angels Sing★ 7.31947Welcome Stranger★ 6.91937Smart Blonde★ 6.41950The Nevadan★ 5.91939It's a Wonderful World★ 6.51936Night Waitress★ 6.41944The Canterville Ghost★ 6.91941Footsteps in the Dark★ 7.01948Hazard★ 8.01965The Monkey's Uncle★ 5.91942Across the Pacific★ 6.61941H.M. Pulham, Esq.★ 7.11937Headin' East★ 10.01942Fall In★ 6.51937The Go-Getter★ 6.21948Whispering Smith★ 6.71937Ever Since Eve★ 5.81945The Affairs of Susan★ 6.51942Star Spangled Rhythm★ 6.21940Castle on the Hudson★ 7.01938Too Hot to Handle★ 6.01941Come Live with Me★ 6.81937The Case of the Stuttering Bishop★ 7.21957Dino★ 7.41936China Clipper★ 5.91945Bring on the Girls★ 6.3195399 River Street★ 6.81946Our Hearts Were Growing Up★ 6.51942Joe Smith, American★ 6.51942A-Haunting We Will Go★ 6.21945You Came Along★ 7.31943Get Going★ 7.01955The McConnell Story★ 6.81941Thieves Fall Out★ 6.01943Slightly Dangerous★ 6.01943Taxi, Mister★ 4.21956Everything But the Truth★ 8.21939Lucky Night★ 6.81944See Here, Private Hargrove★ 6.51939Nick Carter, Master Detective★ 6.01937They Won't Forget★ 5.91939You Can't Get Away with Murder★ 5.81943Corvette K-225★ 6.21939Women in the Wind★ 6.81941Model Wife★ 6.51942Tough as They Come★ 9.01940Alice in Movieland★ 6.41944Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble★ 6.31951Passage West★ 6.61938No Time to Marry★ 7.01943Yanks Ahoy★ 6.61939Reno★ 6.71941Let's Go Collegiate★ 5.41950The Eagle and the Hawk★ 5.91941Father Steps Out★ 6.51943The Falcon Strikes Back★ 5.61944Standing Room Only★ 5.71943Nazty Nuisance★ 4.11947Easy Come, Easy Go★ 7.01939Thunder Afloat★ 6.11939Waterfront★ 6.51956Three Brave Men★ 6.31943Dixie Dugan★ 6.51939No Place to Go★ 8.01940East of the River★ 6.31965Fluffy★ 7.01942Whispering Ghosts★ 6.81941Tanks a Million★ 5.81947The Trouble with Women★ 9.51937Midnight Court★ 5.11939The Flying Irishman★ 5.01937Dance Charlie Dance★ 8.01947Suddenly It's Spring★ 4.31943The Unknown Guest★ 7.01936The Sky Parade★ 8.01943Prairie Chickens★ 8.01940Pop Always Pays★ 6.51941Steel Against the Sky★ 5.41939Twelve Crowded Hours★ 5.71965When the Boys Meet the Girls★ 4.81940Married and in Love★ 5.71942Mokey★ 6.71936Romance in the Air★ 10.01937Back in Circulation★ 6.51944Address Unknown★ 6.51946Cross My Heart★ 9.01940Saturday's Children★ 6.91942Maisie Gets Her Man★ 6.71937Wine, Women and Horses★ 5.31939Slapsie Maxie's★ 6.01956Terror at Midnight★ 5.21943The Mystery of the 13th Guest★ 5.71938The Invisible Menace★ 4.31946The Well Groomed Bride★ 5.71943Young Ideas★ 5.31936King of Hockey★ 5.41943Silver Skates★ 6.31940Just a Cute Kid★ 7.01954Red Garters★ 5.01937The Cherokee Strip★ 6.51940La Conga Nights★ 7.71936All American Chump★ 6.21941Top Sergeant Mulligan★ 6.51940Curtain Call★ 7.31936Border Flight★ 6.51945Masquerade in Mexico★ 6.01940Blame It on Love★ 4.81943Good Morning, Judge★ 10.01977Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?★ 10.01935Double Exposure★ 7.4