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.
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Movies (34)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
1987
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
as Herbert T. Gillis
1977
Funny Girl
as Keeney
1968
When the Boys Meet the Girls
as Phin Gray
1965
The Monkey's Uncle
as Mr. Dearborne
1965
Fluffy
as Catfish
1965
North to Alaska
as Arnie (uncredited)
1960
The Sunrise Gun
as Doc Alvarez
1959
Dino
as Frank Mandel
1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
as Sheriff Cotton Wilson
1957
7th Cavalry
as Sgt. Kruger
1956
Three Brave Men
as Enos Warren
1956
Everything But the Truth
as 'Mac' McMillan
1956
Away All Boats
as Chief Phillip P. 'Pappy' Moran
1956
Terror at Midnight
as Fred Hill
1956
The McConnell Story
as Sfc. Sykes
1955
The Looters
as Stan Leppich
1955
The Lone Gun
as Fairweather
1954
Riot in Cell Block 11
as Commissioner Haskell
1954
Red Garters
as Billy Buckett
1954
99 River Street
as Stan Hogan
1953
Hangman's Knot
as Cass Browne
1952
The Lusty Men
as Al Dawson
1952
The Sniper
as Anderson
1952
My Favorite Spy
as Newton
1951
Detective Story
as Det. Gallagher
1951
Passage West
as Curly
1951
Fourteen Hours
as Walter, room service waiter
1951
Copper Canyon
as Mullins
1950
The Eagle and the Hawk
as Red' Hyatt - Danzeeger's Foreman
1950
Convicted
as Convict Ponti
1950
Francis
as Sergeant Chillingbacker
1950
The Nevadan
as Jeff
1950
Whispering Smith
as Whitey Du Sang
1948
TV Shows (16)
Quincy, M.E.
as Janus
1976
That Girl
1966
My Mother the Car
1965
The Great Adventure
as O'Brien
1963
Petticoat Junction
as Ralph
1963
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
as Herbert T. Gillis
1959
Man with a Camera
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Sheriff Earl Tipton
1958
Maverick
as Red Harrison
1957
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Doc Alvarez
1956
Telephone Time
1956
General Electric Theater
as Farber
1953
Racket Squad
1951
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950