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Aug 5, 1985 · Times Staff Writer. Frank Faylen, a character actor whose 70-year entertainment career ranged from a Mississippi River showboat act to a role on the “Dobie Gillis” television series, is dead....
Actor Born Dec. 8, 1905 in St. Louis, MO. Died Aug. 3, 1985 of respiratory failure in Burbank, Calif. F rank Faylen was a character actor whose 70-year entertainment career ranged from a...
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 ...
Frank Faylen. Highest Rated: 100% The Lusty Men (1952) Lowest Rated: 63% Fourteen Hours (1951) Birthday: Dec 8, 1905. Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Veteran character player, who first...
December 08, 1905. Died. August 02, 1985. Biography. Read More. Veteran character player, who first appeared onstage at the age of eighteen months in parents vaudeville act. In his 20s Faylen made the transition from a vaudeville song-and-dance man to touch guys in films of the 1930s.
He was the consummate character actor who was seen in 187 films. 84% of his appearance occurred in the 30s and 40s. Movie genres included: drama (90); romance (58); comedy (87) and crime/film noir (45). Faylen's IMDb data breaks down like this: mean = 6.7, median - 6.4 and mode 7.0 (14).
Frank Faylen was an American movie and television actor. Born Frank Ruf in St. Louis, Missouri, he began his acting career as an infant appearing with his vaudeville performing parents on stage. After traveling with his showbiz parents through his childhood, Faylen became a stage actor at 18, and eventually began working in movies in the 1930s.
