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Frank Faylen
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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.
Known For
Quincy, M.E.
1976
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
Gone with the Wind
1939
Funny Girl
1968
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
Sergeant York
1941
North to Alaska
1960
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
The Lost Weekend
1945
Marked Woman
1937
The Blue Dahlia
1946
The Reluctant Dragon
1941
Detective Story
1951
A Guy Named Joe
1944
99 River Street
1953
The Sniper
1952
The Lusty Men
1952
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
Riot in Cell Block 11
1954
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
Across the Pacific
1942
Kid Galahad
1937
Blood on the Moon
1948
They Drive by Night
1940
The Palm Beach Story
1942
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