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.
Filmography
The Great Adventure
1963 · 10.0
Headin' East
1937 · 10.0
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
1977 · 10.0
Romance in the Air
1936 · 10.0
Good Morning, Judge
1943 · 10.0
The Trouble with Women
1947 · 9.5
Cross My Heart
1946 · 9.0
Tough as They Come
1942 · 9.0
Crime Rave
1939 · 9.0
It's a Wonderful Life
1946 · 8.3
Everything But the Truth
1956 · 8.2
The Sky Parade
1936 · 8.0
Hazard
1948 · 8.0
No Place to Go
1939 · 8.0
Dance Charlie Dance
1937 · 8.0
Prairie Chickens
1943 · 8.0
Gone with the Wind
1939 · 7.9
The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · 7.8
La Conga Nights
1940 · 7.7
The Lost Weekend
1945 · 7.6
Quincy, M.E.
1976 · 7.5
Dino
1957 · 7.4
Double Exposure
1935 · 7.4
And the Angels Sing
1944 · 7.3
The Pride of the Yankees
1942 · 7.3
You Came Along
1945 · 7.3
Fourteen Hours
1951 · 7.2
Sergeant York
1941 · 7.2
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
1937 · 7.2
Curtain Call
1940 · 7.2
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958 · 7.1
Funny Girl
1968 · 7.1
Riot in Cell Block 11
1954 · 7.1
To Each His Own
1946 · 7.1
Kid Galahad
1937 · 7.1
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941 · 7.1
Detective Story
1951 · 7.1
Maverick
1957 · 7.0
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957 · 7.0
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942 · 7.0
Road Gang
1936 · 7.0
The Palm Beach Story
1942 · 7.0
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939 · 7.0
Castle on the Hudson
1940 · 7.0
The Unknown Guest
1943 · 7.0
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947 · 7.0
Footsteps in the Dark
1941 · 7.0
No Time to Marry
1938 · 7.0
Just a Cute Kid
1940 · 7.0
Fluffy
1965 · 7.0
Get Going
1943 · 7.0
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962 · 6.9
They Drive by Night
1940 · 6.9
Welcome Stranger
1947 · 6.9
The Canterville Ghost
1944 · 6.9
City for Conquest
1940 · 6.9
Saturday's Children
1940 · 6.9
General Electric Theater
1953 · 6.8
Come Live with Me
1941 · 6.8
Edison, the Man
1940 · 6.8
99 River Street
1953 · 6.8
California
1947 · 6.8
Lucky Night
1939 · 6.8
Women in the Wind
1939 · 6.8
Road to Rio
1947 · 6.8
The McConnell Story
1955 · 6.8
Whispering Ghosts
1942 · 6.8
The Sniper
1952 · 6.7
The Lusty Men
1952 · 6.7
A Guy Named Joe
1944 · 6.7
The Blue Dahlia
1946 · 6.7
The Perils of Pauline
1947 · 6.7
Whispering Smith
1948 · 6.7
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942 · 6.7
San Quentin
1937 · 6.7
Mokey
1942 · 6.7
Pop Always Pays
1940 · 6.7
Reno
1939 · 6.7
About Face
1942 · 6.6
The Reluctant Dragon
1941 · 6.6
Bullets or Ballots
1936 · 6.6
Marked Woman
1937 · 6.6
Across the Pacific
1942 · 6.6
Blossoms in the Dust
1941 · 6.6
Brother Orchid
1940 · 6.6
Yanks Ahoy
1943 · 6.6
Passage West
1951 · 6.6
It's a Wonderful World
1939 · 6.5
Telephone Time
1956 · 6.5
Racket Squad
1951 · 6.5
Model Wife
1941 · 6.5
North to Alaska
1960 · 6.5
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944 · 6.5
The Affairs of Susan
1945 · 6.5
Two Years Before the Mast
1946 · 6.5
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946 · 6.5
Father Steps Out
1941 · 6.5
Variety Girl
1947 · 6.5
Hangman's Knot
1952 · 6.5
Border Flight
1936 · 6.5
Back in Circulation
1937 · 6.5
Dixie Dugan
1943 · 6.5
Waterfront
1939 · 6.5
Fall In
1942 · 6.5
The Cherokee Strip
1937 · 6.5
Joe Smith, American
1942 · 6.5
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941 · 6.5
Night Waitress
1936 · 6.4
Five Came Back
1939 · 6.4
Address Unknown
1944 · 6.4
Alice in Movieland
1940 · 6.4
Smart Blonde
1937 · 6.4
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959 · 6.3
Three Brave Men
1956 · 6.3
Silver Skates
1943 · 6.3
Blood on the Moon
1948 · 6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · 6.2
That Girl
1966 · 6.2
Blue Skies
1946 · 6.2
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944 · 6.2
The Go-Getter
1937 · 6.2
A-Haunting We Will Go
1942 · 6.2
Convicted
1950 · 6.2
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943 · 6.2
Corvette K-225
1943 · 6.2
Invisible Stripes
1939 · 6.2
Bring on the Girls
1945 · 6.2
East of the River
1940 · 6.2
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942 · 6.2
All American Chump
1936 · 6.2
Too Hot to Handle
1938 · 6.1
7th Cavalry
1956 · 6.1
Idiot's Delight
1939 · 6.1
Thunder Afloat
1939 · 6.1
The Looters
1955 · 6.1
Slapsie Maxie's
1939 · 6.0
My Favorite Spy
1951 · 6.0
Slightly Dangerous
1943 · 6.0
Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939 · 6.0
Thieves Fall Out
1941 · 6.0
Race Street
1948 · 6.0
Masquerade in Mexico
1945 · 6.0
Petticoat Junction
1963 · 5.9
The Gang's All Here
1943 · 5.9
The Nevadan
1950 · 5.9
The Eagle and the Hawk
1950 · 5.9
They Won't Forget
1937 · 5.9
The Fighting 69th
1940 · 5.9
Francis
1950 · 5.8
The Monkey's Uncle
1965 · 5.8
Wake Island
1942 · 5.8
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939 · 5.8
Ever Since Eve
1937 · 5.8
China Clipper
1936 · 5.8
Tanks a Million
1941 · 5.8
Copper Canyon
1950 · 5.7
Mission to Moscow
1943 · 5.7
Married and in Love
1940 · 5.7
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942 · 5.7
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943 · 5.7
The Well Groomed Bride
1946 · 5.7
Standing Room Only
1944 · 5.7
Twelve Crowded Hours
1939 · 5.7
The Lone Gun
1954 · 5.6
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943 · 5.6
That Certain Woman
1937 · 5.6
Man with a Camera
1958 · 5.5
Steel Against the Sky
1941 · 5.4
No Time for Comedy
1940 · 5.4
Let's Go Collegiate
1941 · 5.4
King of Hockey
1936 · 5.4
Away All Boats
1956 · 5.3
Young Ideas
1943 · 5.3
Wine, Women and Horses
1937 · 5.2
Terror at Midnight
1956 · 5.2
Incendiary Blonde
1945 · 5.1
Midnight Court
1937 · 5.1
The Flying Irishman
1939 · 5.0
Red Garters
1954 · 5.0
My Mother the Car
1965 · 4.8
When the Boys Meet the Girls
1965 · 4.8
Blame It on Love
1940 · 4.8
The Invisible Menace
1938 · 4.3
Suddenly It's Spring
1947 · 4.2
Taxi, Mister
1943 · 4.2
Nazty Nuisance
1943 · 4.1
Bombalera
1945 · 0.0