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Frank Faylen, Frank Faylen (December 8, 1905 – August 2, 1985) 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. He began playing a number of unmemorable bit parts for Warner Brothers, then freelanced for other studios in gradually larger character roles. He appears as Walt Disneys musical conductor in The Reluctant Dragon, and as a stern railroad official in the Laurel and Hardy comedy A-Haunting We Will Go. Faylen and L & H supporting player Charlie Hall were teamed briefly by Monogram Pictures.Faylens breakthrough came in 1945, where he was cast as Bim, the cynical male nurse at Bellevues alcoholic ward in The Lost Weekend. He played Ernie Bishop, the friendly taxi driver in Frank Capras 1946 film Its a Wonderful Life. Faylens career also stretched to television, playing long-suffering grocer Herbert T. Gillis on the 1950s television sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. In 1968 he had a small part in the Barbra Streisand film Funny Girl. Faylen appeared in almost 200 films.[edit] Personal lifeFaylen was married to Carol Hughes, an actress. He died from pneumonia in 1985. He was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California.[edit] Selected filmographyThe Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)The Invisible Menace (1938)Sergeant York (1941)Come Live with Me (1941)Father Steps Out (1941)Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)Nazty Nuisance (1943)Address Unknown (1944)The Canterville Ghost (1944)The Lost Weekend (1945)Blue Skies (1946)Its a Wonderful Life (1946)The Blue Dahlia (1946)The Perils of Pauline (1947)Road to Rio (1947)Blood on the Moon (1948)Whispering Smith (1948)Convicted (1950)Fourteen Hours (1951)Detective Story (1951)My Favorite Spy (1951)The Sniper (1952)Hangmans Knot (1952)The Lusty Men (1952)99 River Street (1953)Red Garters (1954)7th Cavalry (1956)Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965)Funny Girl (1968)[edit] External linksBiography portalFrank Faylen at the Internet Movie DatabaseFrank Faylen at Find a GravePersondataNameFaylen, FrankAlternative namesShort descriptionActorDate of birthDecember 8, 1905Place of birthSt. Louis, Missouri, U.S.Date of deathAugust 2, 1985Place of deathBurbank, California, U.S.Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_FaylenCategories: 1905 births | 1985 deaths | Actors from Missouri | American film actors | American television actors | Deaths from pneumonia | People from St. Louis, Missouri | Vaudeville performersHidden categories: Infobox person using deprecated parameters | Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesDeutschFrançais This page was last modified on 18 February 2011 at 13:47.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimersif ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.config.set({wgCanonicalNamespace: , wgCanonicalSpecialPageName: false, wgNamespaceNumber: 0, wgPageName: Frank_Faylen, wgTitle: Frank Faylen, wgAction: view, wgArticleId: 2304048, wgIsArticle: true, wgUserName: null, wgUserGroups: [*], wgCurRevisionId: 414616425, wgCategories: [Infobox person using deprecated parameters, Articles with hCards, 1905 births, 1985 deaths, Actors from Missouri, American film actors, American television actors, Deaths from pneumonia, People from St. Louis, Missouri, Vaudeville performers], wgBreakFrames: false, wgRestrictionEdit: [], wgRestrictionMove: [], wgSearchNamespaces: [0], wgFlaggedRevsParams: {tags: {status: {levels: 1, quality: 2, pristine: 3}}}, wgStableRevisionId: null, wgRevContents: {error: Unable to get content., waiting: Waiting for content}, wgWikimediaMobileUrl: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki, wgCollapsibleNavBucketTest: false, wgCollapsibleNavForceNewVersion: false, wgArticleAssessmentJUIPath: http://bits.wikimedia.org/w/extensions-1.17/UsabilityInitiative/js/js2stopgap/jui.combined.min.js, Geo: {city: , country: }, wgNoticeProject: wikipedia});}if ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.loader.load([mediawiki.legacy.wikibits, mediawiki.util, mediawiki.legacy.ajax, mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest, ext.vector.collapsibleNav, ext.vector.collapsibleTabs, ext.vector.editWarning, ext.vector.simpleSearch]);mediaWiki.loader.go();}if ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.user.options.set({ccmeonemails:0,cols:80,contextchars:50,contextlines:5,date:default,diffonly:0,disablemail:0,disablesuggest:0,editfont:default,editondblclick:0,editsection:1,editsectiononrightclick:0,enotifminoredits:0,enotifrevealaddr:0,enotifusertalkpages:1,enotifwatchlistpages:0,extendwatchlist:0,externaldiff:0,externaleditor:0,fancysig:0,forceeditsummary:0,gender:unknown,hideminor:0,hidepatrolled:0,highlightbroken:1,imagesize:2,justify:0,math:1,minordefault:0,newpageshidepatrolled:0,nocache:0,noconvertlink:0,norollbackdiff:0,numberheadings:0,previewonfirst:0,previewontop:1,quickbar:1,rcdays:7,rclimit:50,rememberpassword:0,rows:25,searchlimit:20,showhiddencats:0,showjumplinks:1,shownumberswatching:1,showtoc:1,showtoolbar:1,skin:vector,stubthreshold:0,thumbsize:4,underline:2,uselivepreview:0,usenewrc:0,watchcreations:1,watchdefault:0,watchdeletion:0,watchlistdays:3,watchlisthideanons:0,watchlisthidebots:0,watchlisthideliu:0,watchlisthideminor:0,watchlisthideown:0,watchlisthidepatrolled:0,watchmoves:0,wllimit:250,flaggedrevssimpleui:1,flaggedrevsstable:false,flaggedrevseditdiffs:true,flaggedrevsviewdiffs:false,vector-simplesearch:1,useeditwarning:1,vector-collapsiblenav:1,usebetatoolbar:1,usebetatoolbar-cgd:1,variant:en,language:en,searchNs0:true,searchNs1:false,searchNs2:false,searchNs3:false,searchNs4:false,searchNs5:false,searchNs6:false,searchNs7:false,searchNs8:false,searchNs9:false,searchNs10:false,searchNs11:false,searchNs12:false,searchNs13:false,searchNs14:false,searchNs15:false,searchNs100:false,searchNs101:false,searchNs108:false,searchNs109:false});mediaWiki.loader.state({user.options:ready});/* cache key: enwiki:resourceloader:filter:minify-js:2:ae2156c08a06314b12473d37e57711e2 */} if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha();