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 (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.
Maverick
Quincy, M.E.
Petticoat Junction
The Beverly Hillbillies
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Wanted: Dead or Alive
It's a Wonderful Life
Telephone Time
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Gone with the Wind
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
That Girl
The Bob Hope Show
Racket Squad
The Great Adventure
My Mother the Car
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
The Grapes of Wrath
Funny Girl
Sergeant York
Man with a Camera
North to Alaska
Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Reluctant Dragon