Frank Faylen
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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
General Electric Theater
Quincy, M.E.
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Petticoat Junction
Telephone Time
My Mother the Car
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Racket Squad
Gone with the Wind
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Star Spangled Rhythm
Variety Girl
The Grapes of Wrath
Wake Island
The Palm Beach Story
Incendiary Blonde
Two Years Before the Mast
You Came Along
Bring on the Girls
The Affairs of Susan
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Cross My Heart
Detective Story
My Favorite Spy
Standing Room Only
The Blue Dahlia
The Well Groomed Bride
To Each His Own
And the Angels Sing
Funny Girl
Border Flight
Easy Come, Easy Go
Masquerade in Mexico
Whispering Smith
The Trouble with Women
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
California
Red Garters
Blue Skies
It's a Wonderful Life
The Eagle and the Hawk
Copper Canyon
The Perils of Pauline
The Lost Weekend
Suddenly It's Spring
Road to Rio
Welcome Stranger
Hazard
Bombalera
Passage West
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
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