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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.

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)

Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
as Herbert T. Gillis

Quincy, M.E.
as Janus

Funny Girl
as Keeney

That Girl

When the Boys Meet the Girls
as Phin Gray

My Mother the Car

The Monkey's Uncle
as Mr. Dearborne

Fluffy
as Catfish

The Great Adventure
as O'Brien

Petticoat Junction
as Ralph

The Beverly Hillbillies

North to Alaska
as Arnie (uncredited)

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
as Herbert T. Gillis

The Sunrise Gun
as Doc Alvarez

Man with a Camera

Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Sheriff Earl Tipton

Maverick
as Red Harrison

Dino
as Frank Mandel

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
as Sheriff Cotton Wilson

7th Cavalry
as Sgt. Kruger

Three Brave Men
as Enos Warren

Everything But the Truth
as 'Mac' McMillan

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Doc Alvarez

Away All Boats
as Chief Phillip P. 'Pappy' Moran

Terror at Midnight
as Fred Hill

Telephone Time

The McConnell Story
as Sfc. Sykes

The Looters
as Stan Leppich

The Lone Gun
as Fairweather

Riot in Cell Block 11
as Commissioner Haskell

Red Garters
as Billy Buckett

99 River Street
as Stan Hogan

General Electric Theater
as Farber

Hangman's Knot
as Cass Browne

The Lusty Men
as Al Dawson

The Sniper
as Anderson

My Favorite Spy
as Newton

Detective Story
as Det. Gallagher

Passage West
as Curly

Racket Squad

Fourteen Hours
as Walter, room service waiter

Copper Canyon
as Mullins

The Eagle and the Hawk
as Red' Hyatt - Danzeeger's Foreman

The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self

Convicted
as Convict Ponti

The Bob Hope Show
as Self

Francis
as Sergeant Chillingbacker

The Nevadan
as Jeff

Whispering Smith
as Whitey Du Sang

Blood on the Moon
as Jake Pindalest

Race Street
as Phil Dickson

Hazard
as Oscar

Road to Rio
as Trigger

Variety Girl
as Frank Faylen

The Perils of Pauline
as Mr. Joe Gurt

The Trouble with Women
as Geeger

Welcome Stranger
as Bill Walters

Easy Come, Easy Go
as Boss

California
as Whitey