Frank Faylen
ActingFrank 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.
Movies
Self (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
Herbert T. Gillis
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
1977
Keeney
Funny Girl
1968
Phin Gray
When the Boys Meet the Girls
1965
Mr. Dearborne
The Monkey's Uncle
1965
Catfish
Fluffy
1965
Arnie (uncredited)
North to Alaska
1960
Frank Mandel
Dino
1957
Sheriff Cotton Wilson
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
Sgt. Kruger
7th Cavalry
1956
Enos Warren
Three Brave Men
1956
'Mac' McMillan
Everything But the Truth
1956
Chief Phillip P. 'Pappy' Moran
Away All Boats
1956
Fred Hill
Terror at Midnight
1956
Sfc. Sykes
The McConnell Story
1955
Stan Leppich
The Looters
1955
Fairweather
The Lone Gun
1954
Commissioner Haskell
Riot in Cell Block 11
1954
Billy Buckett
Red Garters
1954
Stan Hogan
99 River Street
1953
TV Shows
Janus
Quincy, M.E.
1976
That Girl
1966
My Mother the Car
1965
O'Brien
The Great Adventure
1963
Ralph
Petticoat Junction
1963
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Herbert T. Gillis
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959
Man with a Camera
1958
Sheriff Earl Tipton
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
Red Harrison
Maverick
1957
Doc Alvarez
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Telephone Time
1956
Farber
General Electric Theater
1953
Racket Squad
1951
Self
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
Self
The Bob Hope Show
1950
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