Frank Faylen

Frank Faylen

Birthday: 1905-12-08

Deathday: 1985-08-02

Place of birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Also known as: Francis Charles Ruf, Frank Ruf, Charles Francis Ruf

imdb_id: nm0269709

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.

Played in movies:

It's a Wonderful Life

Score: 8.3

Everything But the Truth

Score: 8.2

Hazard

Score: 8.0

Gone with the Wind

Score: 7.9

The Grapes of Wrath

Score: 7.8

The Lost Weekend

Score: 7.6

La Conga Nights

Score: 7.5

The Pride of the Yankees

Score: 7.4

Curtain Call

Score: 7.3

Dino

Score: 7.2

Funny Girl

Score: 7.2

Sergeant York

Score: 7.2

Fourteen Hours

Score: 7.2

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Score: 7.1

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Score: 7.0

The Palm Beach Story

Score: 7.0

Double Exposure

Score: 7.0

And the Angels Sing

Score: 7.0

Kid Galahad

Score: 7.0

Riot in Cell Block 11

Score: 7.0

Come Live with Me

Score: 7.0

You Came Along

Score: 7.0

Detective Story

Score: 7.0

Footsteps in the Dark

Score: 6.9

They Drive by Night

Score: 6.9

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Score: 6.9

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

Score: 6.9

City for Conquest

Score: 6.8

99 River Street

Score: 6.8

Castle on the Hudson

Score: 6.8

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

Score: 6.8

Women in the Wind

Score: 6.8

To Each His Own

Score: 6.8

Road to Rio

Score: 6.8

The Canterville Ghost

Score: 6.7

The Blue Dahlia

Score: 6.7

The Sniper

Score: 6.7

California

Score: 6.6

A Guy Named Joe

Score: 6.6

Edison, the Man

Score: 6.6

Lucky Night

Score: 6.6

Across the Pacific

Score: 6.6

Welcome Stranger

Score: 6.6

The Lusty Men

Score: 6.6

The Reluctant Dragon

Score: 6.6

Bullets or Ballots

Score: 6.6

Blossoms in the Dust

Score: 6.6

Whispering Smith

Score: 6.5

Marked Woman

Score: 6.5

Brother Orchid

Score: 6.5

Road Gang

Score: 6.5

Fluffy

Score: 6.5

San Quentin

Score: 6.5

North to Alaska

Score: 6.5

Maisie Gets Her Man

Score: 6.5

Saturday's Children

Score: 6.4

Address Unknown

Score: 6.4

Whispering Ghosts

Score: 6.4

Hangman's Knot

Score: 6.4

It's a Wonderful World

Score: 6.4

Yanks Ahoy

Score: 6.3

Invisible Stripes

Score: 6.3

Waterfront

Score: 6.3

Alice in Movieland

Score: 6.3

The McConnell Story

Score: 6.3

Convicted

Score: 6.2

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

Score: 6.2

Five Came Back

Score: 6.2

Two Years Before the Mast

Score: 6.2

Passage West

Score: 6.2

The Perils of Pauline

Score: 6.2

Blood on the Moon

Score: 6.2

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Score: 6.1

Bring on the Girls

Score: 6.1

Corvette K-225

Score: 6.1

Smart Blonde

Score: 6.1

Idiot's Delight

Score: 6.1

The Affairs of Susan

Score: 6.1

Variety Girl

Score: 6.1

Blue Skies

Score: 6.1

A-Haunting We Will Go

Score: 6.0

See Here, Private Hargrove

Score: 6.0

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Score: 6.0

Slightly Dangerous

Score: 6.0

About Face

Score: 6.0

Border Flight

Score: 6.0

Fall In

Score: 6.0

No Time to Marry

Score: 6.0

The Cherokee Strip

Score: 6.0

Dance Charlie Dance

Score: 6.0

Reno

Score: 6.0

No Place to Go

Score: 6.0

My Favorite Spy

Score: 6.0

Somewhere I'll Find You

Score: 5.9

Thunder Afloat

Score: 5.9

Star Spangled Rhythm

Score: 5.9

The Monkey's Uncle

Score: 5.9

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

Score: 5.8

The Go-Getter

Score: 5.8

All American Chump

Score: 5.8

Night Waitress

Score: 5.8

Ever Since Eve

Score: 5.8

Race Street

Score: 5.8

The Nevadan

Score: 5.8

The Gang's All Here

Score: 5.8

Joe Smith, American

Score: 5.8

East of the River

Score: 5.7

They Won't Forget

Score: 5.7

Nick Carter, Master Detective

Score: 5.7

7th Cavalry

Score: 5.7

Wake Island

Score: 5.7

China Clipper

Score: 5.6

The Falcon Strikes Back

Score: 5.6

You Can't Get Away with Murder

Score: 5.6

The Looters

Score: 5.6

Thieves Fall Out

Score: 5.5

Francis

Score: 5.5

The Eagle and the Hawk

Score: 5.4

No Time for Comedy

Score: 5.4

Masquerade in Mexico

Score: 5.4

The Fighting 69th

Score: 5.4

The Lone Gun

Score: 5.4

The Mystery of the 13th Guest

Score: 5.4

Tanks a Million

Score: 5.3

Mission to Moscow

Score: 5.3

Back in Circulation

Score: 5.3

Married and in Love

Score: 5.3

Copper Canyon

Score: 5.3

Twelve Crowded Hours

Score: 5.2

Away All Boats

Score: 5.1

Incendiary Blonde

Score: 5.1

Slapsie Maxie's

Score: 5.0

Mokey

Score: 5.0

Model Wife

Score: 5.0

Red Garters

Score: 5.0

Top Sergeant Mulligan

Score: 5.0

Dixie Dugan

Score: 5.0

Steel Against the Sky

Score: 5.0

Silver Skates

Score: 5.0

Let's Go Collegiate

Score: 5.0

King of Hockey

Score: 5.0

Standing Room Only

Score: 5.0

Terror at Midnight

Score: 4.9

Midnight Court

Score: 4.8

Three Brave Men

Score: 4.8

Young Ideas

Score: 4.6

The Flying Irishman

Score: 4.6

Wine, Women and Horses

Score: 4.3

Suddenly It's Spring

Score: 4.3

Taxi, Mister

Score: 4.2

The Invisible Menace

Score: 4.1

The Well Groomed Bride

Score: 4.0

Nazty Nuisance

Score: 3.7

Father Steps Out

Score: 3.0

When the Boys Meet the Girls

Score: 3.0

Blame It on Love

Score: 2.5

Romance in the Air

Score: 0.0

Headin' East

Score: 0.0

Bombalera

Score: 0.0

Crime Rave

Score: 0.0

The Trouble with Women

Score: 0.0

Tough as They Come

Score: 0.0

Pop Always Pays

Score: 0.0

Get Going

Score: 0.0

Good Morning, Judge

Score: 0.0

Just a Cute Kid

Score: 0.0

The Sky Parade

Score: 0.0

The Unknown Guest

Score: 0.0

Prairie Chickens

Score: 0.0

Cross My Heart

Score: 0.0

Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?

Score: 0.0

Easy Come, Easy Go

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Quincy, M.E.

Score: 7.5

The Bob Hope Show

Score: 7.0

The Beverly Hillbillies

Score: 6.9

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Score: 6.8

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Score: 6.8

Maverick

Score: 6.8

Telephone Time

Score: 6.3

That Girl

Score: 6.3

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.3

Racket Squad

Score: 6.0

Petticoat Junction

Score: 5.8

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Score: 5.8

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5

Man with a Camera

Score: 4.6

My Mother the Car

Score: 4.3

The Great Adventure

Score: 0.0