
ActingBorn: 1905-12-08 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Frank Faylen
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.
Featured Movies (173)

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10.0Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
1977

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10.0Good Morning, Judge
1943

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10.0Headin' East
1937

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10.0Romance in the Air
1936

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9.5The Trouble with Women
1947

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9.0Cross My Heart
1946

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9.0Tough as They Come
1942

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8.3It's a Wonderful Life
1946

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8.2Everything But the Truth
1956

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8.0No Place to Go
1939

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8.0Hazard
1948

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8.0Dance Charlie Dance
1937

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8.0Prairie Chickens
1943

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8.0The Sky Parade
1936

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7.9Gone with the Wind
1939

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7.8The Grapes of Wrath
1940

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7.7La Conga Nights
1940

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7.6The Lost Weekend
1945
Television & Series (16)

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10.0The Great Adventure
1963

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7.5Quincy, M.E.
1976

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7.1Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958

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7.0The Bob Hope Show
1950

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7.0Maverick
1957

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6.9The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950

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6.9The Beverly Hillbillies
1962

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6.8General Electric Theater
1953

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6.5Racket Squad
1951

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6.5Telephone Time
1956

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6.3The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959

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6.2That Girl
1966

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6.2Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956

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5.9Petticoat Junction
1963

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5.5Man with a Camera
1958

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4.8My Mother the Car
1965