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Frank Faylen (born Charles Francis Ruf, December 8, 1905 [citation needed] – August 2, 1985) was an American film and television actor. Largely a bit player and character actor , he occasionally played more fleshed-out supporting roles during his forty-two year acting career, during which he appeared in some 223 film and television ...
Frank Faylen. Actor: It's a Wonderful Life. American character actor who specialized in average-guy parts and who could be equally effective in sympathetic or unlikeable roles. His parents, the vaudeville team of Ruf and Cusik, took him onstage with them when he was a baby, and Faylen grew up in the theatre.
December 8, 1905 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Died. August 2, 1985 · Burbank, California, USA (respiratory ailment and pneumonia) Birth name. Francis Charles Ruf. Height. 5′ 10″ (1.78 m) Mini Bio. American character actor who specialized in average-guy parts and who could be equally effective in sympathetic or unlikeable roles.
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....
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 ...
Aug 9, 2021 · Frank Faylen, a veteran character actor who played Dobie Gillis` father and appeared in more than 400 movies, including ”The Grapes of Wrath,” ”Gunfight at the OK Corral” and ”Funny Girl,” has...
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.
