
Frank Faylen
Acting
8
Movies
16
TV Shows
24
Credits
About
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.

Frank Faylen
Acting
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.

Quincy, M.E.

Maverick

The Beverly Hillbillies

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Petticoat Junction

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Gone with the Wind

That Girl

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

The Bob Hope Show

It's a Wonderful Life

Telephone Time

The Great Adventure

Racket Squad

Man with a Camera

Funny Girl

My Mother the Car

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

The Grapes of Wrath

North to Alaska

General Electric Theater

Sergeant York

The Lost Weekend