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
Variety Girl
Star Spangled Rhythm
The Grapes of Wrath
Wake Island
The Palm Beach Story
Incendiary Blonde
Bring on the Girls
You Came Along
Two Years Before the Mast
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
The Affairs of Susan
The Blue Dahlia
Cross My Heart
The Well Groomed Bride
To Each His Own
Detective Story
Standing Room Only
My Favorite Spy
And the Angels Sing
Border Flight
Funny Girl
Easy Come, Easy Go
Masquerade in Mexico
The Sky Parade
The Trouble with Women
Whispering Smith
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
It's a Wonderful Life
Blue Skies
California
Red Garters
The Perils of Pauline
The Lost Weekend
The Eagle and the Hawk
Copper Canyon
Suddenly It's Spring
Road to Rio
Hazard
Welcome Stranger
Passage West
Bombalera
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
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