Known for Acting
Birthday
December 8, 1905
Place of Birth
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.

Quincy, M.E.

Maverick

The Beverly Hillbillies

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

The Bob Hope Show

Petticoat Junction

Wanted: Dead or Alive

The Colgate Comedy Hour

That Girl

The Great Adventure

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Telephone Time

Racket Squad

My Mother the Car

Man with a Camera

General Electric Theater