Frank Faylen
Born: 1905-12-08 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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.
Rated Filmography (173)
Sorted by Score
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
1977
Good Morning, Judge
1943
Headin' East
1937
Romance in the Air
1936
The Trouble with Women
1947
Cross My Heart
1946
Tough as They Come
1942
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
Everything But the Truth
1956
No Place to Go
1939
Hazard
1948
Dance Charlie Dance
1937
Prairie Chickens
1943
The Sky Parade
1936
Gone with the Wind
1939
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
La Conga Nights
1940
The Lost Weekend
1945
Dino
1957
Double Exposure
1935
You Came Along
1945
Fourteen Hours
1951
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
And the Angels Sing
1944
Curtain Call
1940
Funny Girl
1968
Sergeant York
1941
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
1937
Riot in Cell Block 11
1954
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941
Kid Galahad
1937
Detective Story
1951
To Each His Own
1946
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939
Fluffy
1965
Road Gang
1936
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
The Unknown Guest
1943
No Time to Marry
1938
Just a Cute Kid
1940
Get Going
1943
Castle on the Hudson
1940
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
The Palm Beach Story
1942
They Drive by Night
1940
Welcome Stranger
1947
Saturday's Children
1940
The Canterville Ghost
1944
City for Conquest
1940
California
1947
Come Live with Me
1941
Edison, the Man
1940
Road to Rio
1947
99 River Street
1953
Women in the Wind
1939
Whispering Ghosts
1942
Lucky Night
1939
The McConnell Story
1955
The Perils of Pauline
1947
The Lusty Men
1952
The Sniper
1952
Reno
1939
Whispering Smith
1948
A Guy Named Joe
1944
The Blue Dahlia
1946
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942
Pop Always Pays
1940
Mokey
1942
San Quentin
1937
The Reluctant Dragon
1941
Brother Orchid
1940
Hangman's Knot
1952
Passage West
1951
Across the Pacific
1942
Yanks Ahoy
1943
About Face
1942
Blossoms in the Dust
1941
Bullets or Ballots
1936
Marked Woman
1937
It's a Wonderful World
1939
North to Alaska
1960
Variety Girl
1947
The Affairs of Susan
1945
Two Years Before the Mast
1946
Waterfront
1939
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946
The Cherokee Strip
1937
Dixie Dugan
1943
Father Steps Out
1941
Fall In
1942
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941
Back in Circulation
1937
Border Flight
1936
Model Wife
1941
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944
Joe Smith, American
1942
Alice in Movieland
1940
Smart Blonde
1937
Address Unknown
1944
Night Waitress
1936
Five Came Back
1939
Three Brave Men
1956
Silver Skates
1943
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944
East of the River
1940
Bring on the Girls
1945
Blood on the Moon
1948
All American Chump
1936
A-Haunting We Will Go
1942
A-Haunting We Will Go
1942
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
Corvette K-225
1943
The Go-Getter
1937
Blue Skies
1946
Convicted
1950
Invisible Stripes
1939
Idiot's Delight
1939
7th Cavalry
1956
The Looters
1955
Thunder Afloat
1939
Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939
Race Street
1948
My Favorite Spy
1951
Masquerade in Mexico
1945
Thieves Fall Out
1941
Slightly Dangerous
1943
Slapsie Maxie's
1939
Too Hot to Handle
1938
Wake Island
1942
The Nevadan
1950
They Won't Forget
1937
The Gang's All Here
1943
The Eagle and the Hawk
1950
The Monkey's Uncle
1965
China Clipper
1936
Ever Since Eve
1937
The Fighting 69th
1940
Francis
1950
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939
Tanks a Million
1941
Copper Canyon
1950
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942
Mission to Moscow
1943
Twelve Crowded Hours
1939
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943
Standing Room Only
1944
Married and in Love
1940
The Well Groomed Bride
1946
The Lone Gun
1954
That Certain Woman
1937
King of Hockey
1936
Let's Go Collegiate
1941
Steel Against the Sky
1941
No Time for Comedy
1940
Young Ideas
1943
Away All Boats
1956
Wine, Women and Horses
1937
Terror at Midnight
1956
Incendiary Blonde
1945
Midnight Court
1937
The Flying Irishman
1939
Red Garters
1954
When the Boys Meet the Girls
1965
Blame It on Love
1940
The Invisible Menace
1938
Suddenly It's Spring
1947
Taxi, Mister
1943
Nazty Nuisance
1943