Personal Info
Birthday
December 8, 1905
Place of Birth
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Known For
Acting
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.
Acting Filmography (188)
6.5
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie1987
No Backdrop
10.0
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
Movie1977
7.5
Quincy, M.E.
TV Series1976
7.2
Funny Girl
Movie1968
6.2
That Girl
TV Series1966
4.8
When the Boys Meet the Girls
Movie1965
4.8
My Mother the Car
TV Series1965
5.9
The Monkey's Uncle
Movie1965
7.0
Fluffy
Movie1965
10.0
The Great Adventure
TV Series1963
5.8
Petticoat Junction
TV Series1963
6.9
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV Series1962
6.5
North to Alaska
Movie1960
6.3
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
TV Series1959
5.5
Man with a Camera
TV Series1958
7.0
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV Series1958
6.9
Maverick
TV Series1957
7.4
Dino
Movie1957
7.0
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Movie1957
6.1
7th Cavalry
Movie1956
6.3
Three Brave Men
Movie1956
8.2
Everything But the Truth
Movie1956
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV Series1956
5.2
Away All Boats
Movie1956
5.2
Terror at Midnight
Movie1956
No Backdrop
6.5
Telephone Time
TV Series1956
6.8
The McConnell Story
Movie1955
6.1
The Looters
Movie1955
5.6
The Lone Gun
Movie1954
7.1
Riot in Cell Block 11
Movie1954
5.0
Red Garters
Movie1954
6.8
99 River Street
Movie1953
6.8
General Electric Theater
TV Series1953
6.6
Hangman's Knot
Movie1952
6.7
The Lusty Men
Movie1952
6.7
The Sniper
Movie1952
6.0
My Favorite Spy
Movie1951
7.1
Detective Story
Movie1951
6.6
Passage West
Movie1951
No Backdrop
6.5
Racket Squad
TV Series1951
7.3
Fourteen Hours
Movie1951
5.7
Copper Canyon
Movie1950
5.9
The Eagle and the Hawk
Movie1950
6.9
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV Series1950
6.2
Convicted
Movie1950
No Backdrop
7.0
The Bob Hope Show
TV Series1950
5.8
Francis
Movie1950
5.9
The Nevadan
Movie1950
6.7
Whispering Smith
Movie1948
6.3
Blood on the Moon
Movie1948
6.0
Race Street
Movie1948
8.0
Hazard
Movie1948
6.8
Road to Rio
Movie1947
6.5
Variety Girl
Movie1947
6.7
The Perils of Pauline
Movie1947
9.5
The Trouble with Women
Movie1947
6.9
Welcome Stranger
Movie1947
7.0
Easy Come, Easy Go
Movie1947
6.8
California
Movie1947
4.3
Suddenly It's Spring
Movie1947
8.3
It's a Wonderful Life
Movie1946
9.0
Cross My Heart
Movie1946
6.5
Two Years Before the Mast
Movie1946
6.2
Blue Skies
Movie1946
6.5
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Movie1946
5.7
The Well Groomed Bride
Movie1946
6.7
The Blue Dahlia
Movie1946
7.0
To Each His Own
Movie1946
6.0
Masquerade in Mexico
Movie1945
7.6
The Lost Weekend
Movie1945
5.1
Incendiary Blonde
Movie1945
6.5
The Affairs of Susan
Movie1945
7.3
You Came Along
Movie1945
6.3
Bring on the Girls
Movie1945
6.9
The Canterville Ghost
Movie1944
6.5
Address Unknown
Movie1944
6.3
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Movie1944
7.3
And the Angels Sing
Movie1944
6.5
See Here, Private Hargrove
Movie1944
6.7
A Guy Named Joe
Movie1944
5.7
Standing Room Only
Movie1944
5.9
The Gang's All Here
Movie1943
5.7
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Movie1943
7.0
The Unknown Guest
Movie1943
6.2
Corvette K-225
Movie1943
6.2
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Movie1943
4.1
Nazty Nuisance
Movie1943
5.3
Young Ideas
Movie1943
6.6
Yanks Ahoy
Movie1943
7.0
Get Going
Movie1943
8.0
Prairie Chickens
Movie1943
10.0
Good Morning, Judge
Movie1943
5.7
Mission to Moscow
Movie1943
4.2
Taxi, Mister
Movie1943
6.0
Slightly Dangerous
Movie1943
5.6
The Falcon Strikes Back
Movie1943
6.5
Dixie Dugan
Movie1943
6.3
Silver Skates
Movie1943
6.5
Fall In
Movie1942
6.6
Across the Pacific
Movie1942
7.0
The Palm Beach Story
Movie1942
5.7
Somewhere I'll Find You
Movie1942
5.9
Wake Island
Movie1942
6.2
A-Haunting We Will Go
Movie1942
7.4
The Pride of the Yankees
Movie1942
9.0
Tough as They Come
Movie1942
6.7
Maisie Gets Her Man
Movie1942
7.0
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Movie1942
6.8
Whispering Ghosts
Movie1942
6.6
About Face
Movie1942
6.7
Mokey
Movie1942
6.2
Star Spangled Rhythm
Movie1942
6.5
Joe Smith, American
Movie1942
5.4
Steel Against the Sky
Movie1941
7.1
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Movie1941
6.5
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Movie1941
7.2
Sergeant York
Movie1941
5.4
Let's Go Collegiate
Movie1941
5.8
Tanks a Million
Movie1941
6.7
Blossoms in the Dust
Movie1941
6.5
Father Steps Out
Movie1941
6.6
The Reluctant Dragon
Movie1941
6.0
Thieves Fall Out
Movie1941
6.5
Model Wife
Movie1941
7.0
Footsteps in the Dark
Movie1941
6.9
Come Live with Me
Movie1941
6.3
East of the River
Movie1940
No Backdrop
7.0
Just a Cute Kid
Movie1940
6.9
City for Conquest
Movie1940
5.3
No Time for Comedy
Movie1940
6.9
They Drive by Night
Movie1940
6.5
Pop Always Pays
Movie1940
No Backdrop
4.8
Blame It on Love
Movie1940
6.6
Brother Orchid
Movie1940
7.7
La Conga Nights
Movie1940
6.8
Edison, the Man
Movie1940
6.9
Saturday's Children
Movie1940
7.3
Curtain Call
Movie1940
7.8
The Grapes of Wrath
Movie1940
6.4
Alice in Movieland
Movie1940
7.0
Castle on the Hudson
Movie1940
5.8
The Fighting 69th
Movie1940
5.7
Married and in Love
Movie1940
6.2
Invisible Stripes
Movie1939
7.9
Gone with the Wind
Movie1939
6.0
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Movie1939
6.7
Reno
Movie1939
8.0
No Place to Go
Movie1939
No Backdrop
6.0
Slapsie Maxie's
Movie1939
6.1
Thunder Afloat
Movie1939
6.5
Waterfront
Movie1939
6.3
Five Came Back
Movie1939
6.5
It's a Wonderful World
Movie1939
6.8
Lucky Night
Movie1939
6.8
Women in the Wind
Movie1939
5.0
The Flying Irishman
Movie1939
7.0
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Movie1939
5.8
You Can't Get Away with Murder
Movie1939
5.7
Twelve Crowded Hours
Movie1939
6.1
Idiot's Delight
Movie1939
6.0
Too Hot to Handle
Movie1938
7.0
No Time to Marry
Movie1938
4.3
The Invisible Menace
Movie1938
10.0
Headin' East
Movie1937
5.3
Wine, Women and Horses
Movie1937
5.7
That Certain Woman
Movie1937
6.5
Back in Circulation
Movie1937
5.8
Ever Since Eve
Movie1937
5.9
They Won't Forget
Movie1937
8.0
Dance Charlie Dance
Movie1937
7.2
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Movie1937
7.1
Kid Galahad
Movie1937
6.6
San Quentin
Movie1937
6.2
The Go-Getter
Movie1937
6.5
The Cherokee Strip
Movie1937
6.6
Marked Woman
Movie1937
5.1
Midnight Court
Movie1937
6.4
Smart Blonde
Movie1937
5.4
King of Hockey
Movie1936
6.4
Night Waitress
Movie1936
6.2
All American Chump
Movie1936
8.0
The Sky Parade
Movie1936
5.9
China Clipper
Movie1936
6.6
Bullets or Ballots
Movie1936
6.5
Border Flight
Movie1936
No Backdrop
10.0
Romance in the Air
Movie1936
7.0
Road Gang
Movie1936
7.4
Double Exposure
Movie1935