Frank Faylen

Acting · Born 1905-12-08 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

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

• The Grapes of Wrath as Tim
• It's a Wonderful Life as Ernie
• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral as Sheriff Cotton Wilson
• The Palm Beach Story as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
• The Lost Weekend as 'Bim' Nolan
• Funny Girl as Keeney
• Gone with the Wind as Soldier Aiding Dr. Meade (uncredited)
• Sergeant York as But! Boy (uncredited)
• Yankee Doodle Dandy as Sergeant on Parade (uncredited)
• When the Boys Meet the Girls as Phin Gray

TV

• The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
• That Girl
• The Beverly Hillbillies
• Petticoat Junction as Ralph
• General Electric Theater as Farber
• Man with a Camera
• My Mother the Car
• Wanted: Dead or Alive as Sheriff Earl Tipton
• Racket Squad
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Doc Alvarez