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.
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
8 December 1905
Death Day
2 August 1985
Place of Birth
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Also Known As
Francis Charles Ruf, Frank Ruf, Charles Francis Ruf
MEDIA
FILMOGRAPHY
The Grapes of Wrath
1940-03-15Actor
It's a Wonderful Life
1946-12-20Actor
When the Boys Meet the Girls
1965-10-10Actor
Detective Story
1951-10-24Actor
The Reluctant Dragon
1941-06-19Actor
You Came Along
1945-07-04Actor
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957-05-30Actor
Road to Rio
1947-12-25Actor
The Palm Beach Story
1942-08-28Actor
The Sniper
1952-05-09Actor
Come Live with Me
1941-01-31Actor
Riot in Cell Block 11
1954-02-18Actor
The Lost Weekend
1945-11-29Actor
Terror at Midnight
1956-04-27Actor
Convicted
1950-08-01Actor
Blood on the Moon
1948-11-11Actor
99 River Street
1953-08-21Actor
7th Cavalry
1956-12-01Actor
The Lusty Men
1952-10-24Actor
Funny Girl
1968-09-19Actor
The Blue Dahlia
1946-04-16Actor
The Nevadan
1950-01-11Actor
It's a Wonderful World
1939-05-19Actor
Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939-12-13Actor
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939-03-29Actor
They Won't Forget
1937-07-14Actor
The Canterville Ghost
1944-07-20Actor
Away All Boats
1956-08-16Actor
Kid Galahad
1937-05-29Actor
Fourteen Hours
1951-04-01Actor
Blue Skies
1946-10-15Actor
Hangman's Knot
1952-11-15Actor
To Each His Own
1946-03-12Actor
Race Street
1948-09-11Actor
Whispering Ghosts
1942-05-17Actor
Thunder Afloat
1939-09-15Actor
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942-06-01Actor
The McConnell Story
1955-09-29Actor
My Favorite Spy
1951-12-25Actor
Copper Canyon
1950-11-15Actor
North to Alaska
1960-11-07Actor
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942-03-05Actor
Address Unknown
1944-06-01Actor
California
1947-02-21Actor
San Quentin
1937-05-24Actor
Variety Girl
1947-08-29Actor
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943-11-05Actor
The Perils of Pauline
1947-07-04Actor
Curtain Call
1940-04-18Actor
Taxi, Mister
1943-04-16Actor
The Affairs of Susan
1945-07-08Actor
The Looters
1955-04-30Actor
Dino
1957-07-21Actor
The Pride of the Yankees
1942-07-14Actor
Fluffy
1965-06-27Actor
The Lone Gun
1954-04-25Actor
Passage West
1951-10-01Actor
Road Gang
1936-03-28Actor
Standing Room Only
1944-01-07Actor
No Place to Go
1939-09-23Actor
King of Hockey
1936-12-19Actor
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947-03-07Actor
Three Brave Men
1956-12-01Actor
Everything But the Truth
1956-12-01Actor
And the Angels Sing
1944-04-25Actor
Welcome Stranger
1947-06-13Actor
Across the Pacific
1942-09-04Actor
Reno
1939-12-01Actor
The Monkey's Uncle
1965-08-18Actor
Two Years Before the Mast
1946-11-22Actor
Married and in Love
1940-01-19Actor
Let's Go Collegiate
1941-09-12Actor
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941-12-04Actor
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942-08-27Actor
Blame It on Love
1940-06-18Actor
Alice in Movieland
1940-03-03Actor
Waterfront
1939-07-15Actor
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
1977-05-10Actor
Silver Skates
1943-02-26Actor
Women in the Wind
1939-04-15Actor
The Fighting 69th
1940-01-27Actor
Wine, Women and Horses
1937-09-11Actor
Whispering Smith
1948-12-09Actor
The Invisible Menace
1938-01-11Actor
Hazard
1948-05-28Actor
Ever Since Eve
1937-07-15Actor
Cross My Heart
1946-12-18Actor
Masquerade in Mexico
1945-12-03Actor
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
1937-06-08Actor
Dance Charlie Dance
1937-07-06Actor
Idiot's Delight
1939-01-27Actor
The Flying Irishman
1939-04-07Actor
Prairie Chickens
1943-05-21Actor
Lucky Night
1939-05-05Actor
Five Came Back
1939-06-23Actor
Gone with the Wind
1939-12-15Actor
Steel Against the Sky
1941-12-13Actor
Francis
1950-02-08Actor
Thieves Fall Out
1941-05-03Actor
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946-06-14Actor
The Cherokee Strip
1937-05-15Actor
Midnight Court
1937-03-06Actor
Wake Island
1942-08-11
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943-09-25Actor
Night Waitress
1936-12-18Actor
Smart Blonde
1937-01-02Actor
Dixie Dugan
1943-03-12Actor
The Unknown Guest
1943-10-22Actor
The Gang's All Here
1943-12-24Actor
The Sky Parade
1936-10-09Actor
Suddenly It's Spring
1947-02-13Actor
Brother Orchid
1940-06-07Actor
Edison, the Man
1940-05-10Actor
All American Chump
1936-10-16Actor
No Time to Marry
1938-02-05Actor
Just a Cute Kid
1940-10-05Actor
Father Steps Out
1941-07-19Actor
Good Morning, Judge
1943-05-07Actor
Tanks a Million
1941-09-12Actor
Get Going
1943-06-21Actor
Fall In
1942-11-20Actor
Yanks Ahoy
1943-06-29Actor
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941-10-16Actor
A-Haunting We Will Go
1942-08-07Actor
Red Garters
1954-02-09Actor
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944-05-04Actor
Sergeant York
1941-09-27Actor
City for Conquest
1940-09-21Actor
Saturday's Children
1940-05-04Actor
No Time for Comedy
1940-09-14Actor
Back in Circulation
1937-08-27Actor
East of the River
1940-11-09Actor
Castle on the Hudson
1940-02-17Actor
They Drive by Night
1940-07-26Actor
Pop Always Pays
1940-06-21Actor
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939-03-23Actor
Young Ideas
1943-08-02Actor
Double Exposure
1935-11-23Actor
La Conga Nights
1940-05-31Actor
The Eagle and the Hawk
1950-10-01Actor
Tough as They Come
1942-06-05Actor
The Trouble with Women
1947-06-25Actor
Corvette K-225
1943-09-29Actor
Border Flight
1936-05-29Actor
Model Wife
1941-04-17Actor
About Face
1942-04-16Actor
Mokey
1942-04-01Actor
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942-05-29Actor
Slightly Dangerous
1943-04-01Actor
The Go-Getter
1937-05-22Actor
Crime Rave
1939-01-13
The Well Groomed Bride
1946-05-17Actor
Marked Woman
1937-04-10Actor
Bombalera
1945-02-09Actor
Bring on the Girls
1945-03-30Actor
A Guy Named Joe
1949-01-08Actor
Mission to Moscow
1943-04-29Actor
Slapsie Maxie's
1939-09-16Actor
Blossoms in the Dust
1941-08-15Actor
Nazty Nuisance
1943-08-06Actor
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943-04-01Actor
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987-03-13Actor
Bullets or Ballots
1936-06-06Actor
China Clipper
1936-08-11Actor
Twelve Crowded Hours
1939-02-23Actor
Incendiary Blonde
1945-07-25Actor
Invisible Stripes
1939-12-30Actor
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944-03-18Actor
Joe Smith, American
1942-02-01Actor
Footsteps in the Dark
1941-03-08Actor
Headin' East
1937-12-13Actor
Romance in the Air
1936-05-16Actor
The Sunrise Gun
1959-04-16Actor
Too Hot to Handle
1938-09-16Actor
That Certain Woman
1937-08-30Actor
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950-09-10Actor
The Great Adventure
1963-09-27Actor
That Girl
1966-09-08
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962-09-26
Petticoat Junction
1963-09-24Actor
General Electric Theater
1953-02-01Actor
Man with a Camera
1958-10-10
My Mother the Car
1965-09-14
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958-09-06Actor
Racket Squad
1951-06-07
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956-10-05Actor
Telephone Time
1956-04-08
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959-09-29Actor
Maverick
1957-09-22Actor
The Bob Hope Show
1950-04-09Actor
Quincy, M.E.
1976-10-03Actor
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