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.

Born

Dec 08, 1905

Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Died

Aug 02, 1985

Known For

Acting

Movies

175 acting

0 crew

Popularity

0.7

movie

Known For

Gone with the Wind

1939

as Soldier Aiding Dr. Meade (uncredited)

It's a Wonderful Life

1946

as Ernie

North to Alaska

1960

as Arnie (uncredited)

Funny Girl

1968

as Keeney

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

1957

as Sheriff Cotton Wilson

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942

as Sergeant on Parade (uncredited)

The Grapes of Wrath

1940

as Tim

Sergeant York

1941

as But! Boy (uncredited)

The Lost Weekend

1945

as 'Bim' Nolan

The Reluctant Dragon

1941

as Orchestra Leader (uncredited)

Gone with the Wind

1939 • as Soldier Aiding Dr. Meade (uncredited)

★ 7.9

It's a Wonderful Life

1946 • as Ernie

★ 8.3

North to Alaska

1960 • as Arnie (uncredited)

★ 6.5

Funny Girl

1968 • as Keeney

★ 7.2

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

1957 • as Sheriff Cotton Wilson

★ 7.0

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942 • as Sergeant on Parade (uncredited)

★ 7.0

The Grapes of Wrath

1940 • as Tim

★ 7.8

Sergeant York

1941 • as But! Boy (uncredited)

★ 7.2

The Lost Weekend

1945 • as 'Bim' Nolan

★ 7.6

The Reluctant Dragon

1941 • as Orchestra Leader (uncredited)

★ 6.6

Riot in Cell Block 11

1954 • as Commissioner Haskell

★ 7.0

Detective Story

1951 • as Det. Gallagher

★ 7.1

Blood on the Moon

1948 • as Jake Pindalest

★ 6.2

The Palm Beach Story

1942 • as Taxi Driver (uncredited)

★ 7.0

Fourteen Hours

1951 • as Walter, room service waiter

★ 7.3

It's a Wonderful World

1939 • as Peters - Stagehand (uncredited)

★ 6.4

The Lusty Men

1952 • as Al Dawson

★ 6.7

The Pride of the Yankees

1942 • as Yankee Third Base Coach (uncredited)

★ 7.4

Kid Galahad

1937 • as Barney

★ 7.0

99 River Street

1953 • as Stan Hogan

★ 6.8

Road to Rio

1947 • as Trigger

★ 6.8

They Drive by Night

1940 • as Driver in Cafe (uncredited)

★ 6.9

A Guy Named Joe

1944 • as Major (uncredited)

★ 6.7

Across the Pacific

1942 • as Sidewalk Toy Vendor (uncredited)

★ 6.6

Marked Woman

1937 • as Cabbie #2 (uncredited)

★ 6.5

The Blue Dahlia

1946 • as Man Recommending Motel

★ 6.7

Brother Orchid

1940 • as Parkway Biltmore Desk Clerk (uncredited)

★ 6.6

California

1947 • as Whitey

★ 6.8

The Sniper

1952 • as Anderson

★ 6.7

Copper Canyon

1950 • as Mullins

★ 5.5

The Canterville Ghost

1944 • as Lieutenant John Kane

★ 6.8

Idiot's Delight

1939 • as Ed

★ 5.9

Francis

1950 • as Sergeant Chillingbacker

★ 5.6

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

1939 • as Adjutant (uncredited)

★ 7.0

Bullets or Ballots

1936 • as Gatley - Pinball Racketeer (uncredited)

★ 6.6

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

1987 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 6.0

San Quentin

1937 • as Convict Envying Hoffman (uncredited)

★ 6.5

Dance Charlie Dance

1937 • as Ted Parks

★ 6.0

Wake Island

1942

★ 5.8

Convicted

1950 • as Convict Ponti

★ 6.1

Five Came Back

1939 • as Photographer (uncredited)

★ 6.2

Somewhere I'll Find You

1942 • as Soldier Driving Jeep

★ 5.6

The Fighting 69th

1940 • as Engineer Sergeant (uncredited)

★ 5.7

Nick Carter, Master Detective

1939 • as Pete Foley - 1st pilot

★ 5.7

Invisible Stripes

1939 • as Steve - Henchman on Bank Job (uncredited)

★ 6.1

The McConnell Story

1955 • as Sfc. Sykes

★ 6.3

The Nevadan

1950 • as Jeff

★ 5.8

No Time for Comedy

1940 • as Cab Driver

★ 5.0

Edison, the Man

1940 • as Galbreath

★ 6.8

The Perils of Pauline

1947 • as Mr. Joe Gurt

★ 6.2

City for Conquest

1940 • as Band Conductor and Emcee (uncredited)

★ 6.8

The Gang's All Here

1943 • as Marine Sergeant (uncredited)

★ 6.0

Mission to Moscow

1943 • as Reporter (uncredited)

★ 5.6

Two Years Before the Mast

1946 • as Hansen

★ 6.1

Suddenly It's Spring

1947 • as Harold Michaels

★ 3.9

Easy Come, Easy Go

1947 • as Boss

You Can't Get Away with Murder

1939 • as Boat Tour Guide (uncredited)

★ 5.7

Thank Your Lucky Stars

1943 • as Sailor (uncredited)

★ 6.1

Whispering Smith

1948 • as Whitey Du Sang

★ 6.6

Reno

1939 • as J. Hezmer Briggs

★ 6.0

To Each His Own

1946 • as Babe

★ 6.9

Steel Against the Sky

1941 • as Egg Man in Diner (uncredited)

★ 5.0

Variety Girl

1947 • as Frank Faylen

★ 6.1

Hazard

1948 • as Oscar

★ 7.5

Away All Boats

1956 • as Chief Phillip P. 'Pappy' Moran

★ 5.2

Blossoms in the Dust

1941 • as Man with Man Carrying Dead Child

★ 6.6

Star Spangled Rhythm

1942 • as Soldier (uncredited)

★ 6.0

Maisie Gets Her Man

1942 • as Stage Manager (Uncredited)

★ 6.5

The Well Groomed Bride

1946 • as Cabbie

★ 4.0

The Falcon Strikes Back

1943 • as Cecil, a Hobo (uncredited)

★ 5.5

Too Hot to Handle

1938 • as Assistant Dubber (uncredited)

★ 5.8

Incendiary Blonde

1945 • as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

★ 4.6

A-Haunting We Will Go

1942 • as Train Detective (uncredited)

★ 6.0

The Monkey's Uncle

1965 • as Mr. Dearborne

★ 5.7

Blue Skies

1946 • as Mack

★ 6.1

Footsteps in the Dark

1941 • as Gus a Taxi Driver (uncredited)

★ 6.8

The Affairs of Susan

1945 • as Brooklyn Boy (uncredited)

★ 6.1

Come Live with Me

1941 • as Waiter

★ 6.8

The Eagle and the Hawk

1950 • as Red' Hyatt - Danzeeger's Foreman

★ 5.4

The Looters

1955 • as Stan Leppich

★ 5.6

See Here, Private Hargrove

1944 • as M.P. (uncredited)

★ 6.0

Slightly Dangerous

1943 • as Gateman (uncredited)

★ 6.0

The Flying Irishman

1939 • as New York Mechanic

★ 4.6

Castle on the Hudson

1940 • as Guard Who is Slugged (uncredited)

★ 6.8

Dixie Dugan

1943 • as Soldier (uncredited)

★ 5.0

You Came Along

1945 • as Bellboy (uncredited)

★ 7.0

That Certain Woman

1937 • as Reporter (uncredited)

★ 5.4

Thieves Fall Out

1941 • as Pick

★ 5.5

Back in Circulation

1937 • as James Maxwell - a Reporter (uncredited)

★ 5.3

Let's Go Collegiate

1941 • as Speed Dorman

★ 5.0

Lucky Night

1939 • as Play Palace Announcer (uncredited)

★ 6.6

Wine, Women and Horses

1937 • as Horse Buyer

★ 4.3

They Won't Forget

1937 • as Reporter

★ 5.8

My Favorite Spy

1951 • as Newton

★ 6.0

East of the River

1940 • as Tour Guide (uncredited)

★ 5.7

Masquerade in Mexico

1945 • as Brooklyn (uncredited)

★ 5.4

China Clipper

1936 • as Weatherman (uncredited)

★ 5.6

Passage West

1951 • as Curly

★ 6.2

Dino

1957 • as Frank Mandel

★ 7.2

Welcome Stranger

1947 • as Bill Walters

★ 6.6

The Lone Gun

1954 • as Fairweather

★ 5.4

Road Gang

1936 • as Radio Dispatcher (uncredited)

★ 6.5

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

1941 • as Marine Sergeant (uncredited)

★ 7.1

Night Waitress

1936 • as Policeman at Torre's

★ 5.8

Corvette K-225

1943 • as Shipyard Painter

★ 6.1

Everything But the Truth

1956 • as 'Mac' McMillan

★ 8.2

Ever Since Eve

1937 • as Bandit Leader at Monteray Tavern (uncredited)

★ 5.5

Standing Room Only

1944 • as Cabbie

★ 5.0

The Mystery of the 13th Guest

1943 • as Speed Dugan

★ 5.4

7th Cavalry

1956 • as Sgt. Kruger

★ 5.9

Bring on the Girls

1945 • as Sailor

★ 6.1

Smart Blonde

1937 • as Ambulance Driver (uncredited)

★ 6.1

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

1937 • as Charlie Downs

★ 6.8

Mokey

1942 • as Police Desk Sergeant

★ 5.0

Joe Smith, American

1942 • as Man in Waiting Room with Matches (uncredited)

★ 6.2

And the Angels Sing

1944 • as Holman

★ 7.0

Curtain Call

1940 • as Spike Malone

★ 7.3

Tanks a Million

1941 • as Pvt. Skivic

★ 5.3

Slapsie Maxie's

1939 • as Tiger Dorsey

★ 5.0

La Conga Nights

1940 • as Jeepers Peepers

★ 7.5

Hangman's Knot

1952 • as Cass Browne

★ 6.4

All American Chump

1936 • as Reporter (uncredited)

★ 5.8

The Go-Getter

1937 • as Country Club Man #2 (uncredited)

★ 5.8

Young Ideas

1943 • as Reporter (uncredited)

★ 4.6

No Place to Go

1939 • as Pete Shaffer

★ 6.0

The Trouble with Women

1947 • as Geeger

★ 9.0

Pop Always Pays

1940 • as Minerva Auto Loan Cashier

Waterfront

1939 • as Skids Riley

★ 6.3

Address Unknown

1944 • as Jimmie Blake

★ 6.4

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

1944 • as Taxi Driver #2 (uncredited)

★ 5.8

Fall In

1942 • as Capt. Gillis

★ 6.0

Alice in Movieland

1940 • as Master of Ceremonies (uncredited)

★ 6.3

Race Street

1948 • as Phil Dickson

★ 5.8

Midnight Court

1937 • as Reporter

★ 4.4

Silver Skates

1943 • as Eddie

★ 5.0

Model Wife

1941 • as Master of Ceremonies

★ 5.0

Red Garters

1954 • as Billy Buckett

★ 4.7

Thunder Afloat

1939 • as Recruiting Officer (uncredited)

★ 5.9

Women in the Wind

1939 • as Chuck - the Mechanic (uncredited)

★ 6.8

Fluffy

1965 • as Catfish

★ 6.5

About Face

1942 • as Bartender Jerry

★ 6.0

Saturday's Children

1940 • as Cab Driver (uncredited)

★ 6.6

Cross My Heart

1946 • as Fingerprint Expert

Tough as They Come

1942 • as Collector

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

1946 • as Federal Agent

★ 6.2

No Time to Marry

1938 • as Waxler

★ 6.0

The Invisible Menace

1938 • as Private of the Guard

★ 3.8

Taxi, Mister

1943 • as Henchman Silk

★ 3.6

Border Flight

1936 • as Jimmie

★ 6.0

Blame It on Love

1940 • as Studio Electrician

★ 2.5

Three Brave Men

1956 • as Enos Warren

★ 5.9

Whispering Ghosts

1942 • as Curly

★ 6.4

King of Hockey

1936 • as Swede

★ 5.0

Twelve Crowded Hours

1939 • as Henchman (uncredited)

★ 5.2

Married and in Love

1940 • as Jim Carter, Man in Bar

★ 5.4

Father Steps Out

1941 • as Tall Hobo 'King', aka The King of Siam

★ 3.0

Nazty Nuisance

1943 • as Seaman Benson

★ 3.8

Good Morning, Judge

1943 • as Ben Pollard

The Unknown Guest

1943 • as Truck Driver (uncredited)

Double Exposure

1935 • as Press Photographer (uncredited)

★ 7.0

Prairie Chickens

1943 • as Clem

Yanks Ahoy

1943 • as Quartermaster Jenkins

★ 6.3

Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?

1977 • as Herbert T. Gillis

When the Boys Meet the Girls

1965 • as Phin Gray

★ 3.0

movie

Crime Rave

1939

The Sunrise Gun

1959 • as Doc Alvarez

The Sky Parade

1936 • as Pilot (uncredited)

Top Sergeant Mulligan

1941 • as Pat Dolan

★ 5.0

The Cherokee Strip

1937 • as Joe Brady

★ 6.0

Terror at Midnight

1956 • as Fred Hill

★ 4.7

movie

Bombalera

1945 • as Houlihan

Romance in the Air

1936 • as Sure-Fire

Just a Cute Kid

1940 • as Benny

Get Going

1943 • as Hank

Headin' East

1937 • as Joe