Frank Faylen
Born: 1905-12-08 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Died: 1985-08-02
Known For: Acting
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
1987
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
1977
- Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis? as Herbert T. Gillis
1976
- Quincy, M.E. as Janus
1968
- Funny Girl as Keeney
1966
1965
- Fluffy as Catfish
- My Mother the Car
- The Monkey's Uncle as Mr. Dearborne
- When the Boys Meet the Girls as Phin Gray
1963
- Petticoat Junction as Ralph
- The Great Adventure as O'Brien
1960
- North to Alaska as Arnie (uncredited)
1959
- The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis as Herbert T. Gillis
- The Sunrise Gun as Doc Alvarez
1958
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Sheriff Earl Tipton
- Man with a Camera
1957
- Maverick as Red Harrison
- Dino as Frank Mandel
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral as Sheriff Cotton Wilson
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Doc Alvarez
- 7th Cavalry as Sgt. Kruger
- Telephone Time
- Everything But the Truth as 'Mac' McMillan
- Terror at Midnight as Fred Hill
- Away All Boats as Chief Phillip P. 'Pappy' Moran
- Three Brave Men as Enos Warren
1955
- The Looters as Stan Leppich
- The McConnell Story as Sfc. Sykes
1954
- Red Garters as Billy Buckett
- Riot in Cell Block 11 as Commissioner Haskell
- The Lone Gun as Fairweather
1953
- 99 River Street as Stan Hogan
- General Electric Theater as Farber
1952
- The Sniper as Anderson
- The Lusty Men as Al Dawson
- Hangman's Knot as Cass Browne
1951
- Detective Story as Det. Gallagher
- Racket Squad
- Passage West as Curly
- My Favorite Spy as Newton
- Fourteen Hours as Walter, room service waiter
1950
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
- Francis as Sergeant Chillingbacker
- The Nevadan as Jeff
- Convicted as Convict Ponti
- Copper Canyon as Mullins
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Red' Hyatt - Danzeeger's Foreman
1949
- A Guy Named Joe as Major (uncredited)
1948
- Race Street as Phil Dickson
- Hazard as Oscar
- Whispering Smith as Whitey Du Sang
- Blood on the Moon as Jake Pindalest
1947
- California as Whitey
- Welcome Stranger as Bill Walters
- Road to Rio as Trigger
- Variety Girl as Frank Faylen
- The Trouble with Women as Geeger
- Easy Come, Easy Go as Boss
- Suddenly It's Spring as Harold Michaels
- The Perils of Pauline as Mr. Joe Gurt
1946
- It's a Wonderful Life as Ernie
- Blue Skies as Mack
- Two Years Before the Mast as Hansen
- To Each His Own as Babe
- The Well Groomed Bride as Cabbie
- The Blue Dahlia as Man Recommending Motel
- Cross My Heart as Fingerprint Expert
- Our Hearts Were Growing Up as Federal Agent
1945
- Incendiary Blonde as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- The Lost Weekend as 'Bim' Nolan
- The Affairs of Susan as Brooklyn Boy (Uncredited)
- Bombalera as Houlihan
- Masquerade in Mexico as Brooklyn (uncredited)
- You Came Along as Bellboy (uncredited)
- Bring on the Girls as Sailor
1944
- Address Unknown as Jimmie Blake
- And the Angels Sing as Holman
- Standing Room Only as Cabbie
- The Canterville Ghost as Lieutenant John Kane
- See Here, Private Hargrove as M.P. (uncredited)
- Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble as Taxi Driver #2 (uncredited)
1943
- Young Ideas as Reporter (uncredited)
- Get Going as Hank
- Taxi, Mister as Henchman Silk
- Prairie Chickens as Clem
- Silver Skates as Eddie
- Slightly Dangerous as Gateman (uncredited)
- Yanks Ahoy as Quartermaster Jenkins
- The Mystery of the 13th Guest as Speed Dugan
- The Falcon Strikes Back as Cecil, a Hobo (uncredited)
- Good Morning, Judge as Ben Pollard
- Mission to Moscow as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Gang's All Here as Marine Sergeant (uncredited)
- The Unknown Guest as Truck Driver (uncredited)
- Corvette K-225 as Shipyard Painter
- Thank Your Lucky Stars as Sailor (uncredited)
- Nazty Nuisance as Seaman Benson
- Dixie Dugan as Soldier (uncredited)
1942
- Wake Island
- Whispering Ghosts as Curly
- Mokey as Police Desk Sergeant
- Fall In as Capt. Gillis
- About Face as Bartender Jerry
- The Pride of the Yankees as Yankee Third Base Coach (uncredited)
- Across the Pacific as Sidewalk Toy Vendor (uncredited)
- A-Haunting We Will Go as Train Detective (uncredited)
- The Palm Beach Story as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy as Sergeant on Parade (uncredited)
- Somewhere I'll Find You as Soldier Driving Jeep
- Tough as They Come as Collector
- Star Spangled Rhythm as Soldier (uncredited)
- Joe Smith, American as Man in Waiting Room with Matches (uncredited)
- Maisie Gets Her Man as Stage Manager (Uncredited)
1941
- Sergeant York as But! Boy (uncredited)
- The Reluctant Dragon as Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
- H.M. Pulham, Esq. as Marine Sergeant (uncredited)
- Blossoms in the Dust as Man with Man Carrying Dead Child
- Come Live with Me as Waiter
- Tanks a Million as Pvt. Skivic
- Model Wife as Master of Ceremonies
- Thieves Fall Out as Pick
- Top Sergeant Mulligan as Pat Dolan
- Let's Go Collegiate as Speed Dorman
- Footsteps in the Dark as Gus a Taxi Driver (uncredited)
- Father Steps Out as Tall Hobo 'King', aka The King of Siam
- Steel Against the Sky as Egg Man in Diner (uncredited)
1940
- The Grapes of Wrath as Tim
- Brother Orchid as Parkway Biltmore Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- Curtain Call as Spike Malone
- East of the River as Tour Guide (uncredited)
- Edison, the Man as Galbreath
- No Time for Comedy as Cab Driver
- Married and in Love as Jim Carter, Man in Bar
- Saturday's Children as Cab Driver (uncredited)
- Alice in Movieland as Master of Ceremonies (uncredited)
- The Fighting 69th as Engineer Sergeant (uncredited)
- They Drive by Night as Driver in Cafe (uncredited)
- Pop Always Pays as Minerva Auto Loan Cashier
- La Conga Nights as Jeepers Peepers
- Blame It on Love as Studio Electrician
- Just a Cute Kid as Benny
- City for Conquest as Band Conductor and Emcee (uncredited)
- Castle on the Hudson as Guard Who is Slugged (uncredited)
1939
- Gone with the Wind as Soldier Aiding Dr. Meade (uncredited)
- Invisible Stripes as Steve - Henchman on Bank Job (uncredited)
- Waterfront as Skids Riley
- Reno as J. Hezmer Briggs
- Lucky Night as Play Palace Announcer (uncredited)
- Thunder Afloat as Recruiting Officer (uncredited)
- It's a Wonderful World as Peters - Stagehand (uncredited)
- Five Came Back as Photographer (uncredited)
- Idiot's Delight as Ed
- Nick Carter, Master Detective as Pete Foley - 1st pilot
- No Place to Go as Pete Shaffer
- Women in the Wind as Chuck - the Mechanic (uncredited)
- You Can't Get Away with Murder as Boat Tour Guide (uncredited)
- Slapsie Maxie's as Tiger Dorsey
- The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle as Adjutant (uncredited)
- The Flying Irishman as New York Mechanic
- Twelve Crowded Hours as Henchman (uncredited)
- Crime Rave
1938
- Too Hot to Handle as Assistant Dubber (uncredited)
- The Invisible Menace as Private of the Guard
- No Time to Marry as Waxler
1937
- San Quentin as Convict Envying Hoffman (uncredited)
- Marked Woman as Cabbie #2 (uncredited)
- That Certain Woman as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Case of the Stuttering Bishop as Charlie Downs
- Dance Charlie Dance as Ted Parks
- Kid Galahad as Barney
- They Won't Forget as Reporter
- The Cherokee Strip as Joe Brady
- Ever Since Eve as Bandit Leader at Monteray Tavern (uncredited)
- Headin' East as Joe
- The Go-Getter as Country Club Man #2 (uncredited)
- Smart Blonde as Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
- Back in Circulation as James Maxwell - a Reporter (uncredited)
- Wine, Women and Horses as Horse Buyer
- Midnight Court as Reporter
1936
- Border Flight as Jimmie
- Night Waitress as Policeman at Torre's
- Road Gang as Radio Dispatcher (uncredited)
- China Clipper as Weatherman (uncredited)
- The Sky Parade as Pilot (uncredited)
- King of Hockey as Swede
- Bullets or Ballots as Gatley - Pinball Racketeer (uncredited)
- Romance in the Air as Sure-Fire
- All American Chump as Reporter (uncredited)
1935
- Double Exposure as Press Photographer (uncredited)