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
Top 40 Movies
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
A Guy Named Joe
1944
A-Haunting We Will Go
1942
Gone with the Wind
1939
The Lost Weekend
1945
Mission to Moscow
1943
No Time for Comedy
1940
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
Across the Pacific
1942
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939
Tough as They Come
1942
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943
The Trouble with Women
1947
The Invisible Menace
1938
Slightly Dangerous
1943
The Palm Beach Story
1942
No Place to Go
1939
Detective Story
1951
Blame It on Love
1940
Funny Girl
1968
Tanks a Million
1941
Everything But the Truth
1956
The Perils of Pauline
1947
No Time to Marry
1938
Passage West
1951
Marked Woman
1937
Young Ideas
1943
The Reluctant Dragon
1941
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946
Blood on the Moon
1948
Hazard
1948
San Quentin
1937
Incendiary Blonde
1945
Two Years Before the Mast
1946
Kid Galahad
1937
Smart Blonde
1937
Whispering Ghosts
1942
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
The Pride of the Yankees
1942