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