Frank Faylen
Highest Rated: 100% 99 River Street (1953)
Lowest Rated: 75% Detective Story (1951)
Birthday: Dec 08, 1905
Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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. One of his most memorable performances is as the sadistic male nurse in "The Lost Weekend" (1945). Faylen also played archetypal 1950s teenager Dobie Gillis's father on the popular TV series, "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" (1959-63).
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93% | 85% | Funny Girl | Keeney (Character) | $223.3K | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | The Monkey's Uncle | Mr. Dearborne (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | When the Boys Meet the Girls | Phin Gray (Character) | - | 1965 |
| 83% | 69% | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | Sheriff Cotton Wilson (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Everything but the Truth | "Mac" McMillan (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Away All Boats | Chief Phillip P. "Pappy" Moran (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | 7th Cavalry | Sgt. Kruger (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Terror at Midnight | Fred Hill (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Brave Men | Enos Warren (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | The McConnell Story | Sfc. Sykes (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 100% | 76% | Riot in Cell Block 11 | Commissioner Haskell (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lone Gun | Fairweather (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Red Garters | Billy Buckett (Character) | - | 1954 |
| 100% | 80% | 99 River Street | Stan Hogan (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 100% | 83% | The Lusty Men | Al Dawson (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 88% | 63% | The Sniper | Police Insp. Anderson (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | Hangman's Knot | Cass Browne (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 83% | 74% | Fourteen Hours | Walter, room service waiter (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 75% | 72% | Detective Story | Det. Gallagher (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | My Favorite Spy | Newton (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Passage West | Curly (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | Copper Canyon | Mullins (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Eagle and the Hawk | Red' Hyatt (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Convicted | Convict Ponti (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | The Nevadan | Jeff (Character) | - | 1950 |
| 80% | 67% | Francis | Sgt. Chillingbacker (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Race Street | Phil Dickson (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 83% | 65% | Whispering Smith | Whitey Du Sang (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 100% | 62% | Blood on the Moon | Jake Pindalest (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Welcome Stranger | Bill Walters (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | The Perils of Pauline | Mr. Joe Gurt (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 100% | 76% | Road to Rio | Trigger (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Easy Come, Easy Go | Boss (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Our Hearts Were Growing Up | Federal Agent (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Two Years Before the Mast | Hansen (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 83% | 67% | Blue Skies | Mack (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 81% | 84% | To Each His Own | Babe (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 100% | 71% | The Blue Dahlia | Man recommending a motel (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 94% | 95% | It's a Wonderful Life | Ernie Bishop, Taxi Driver (Character) | $3.3M | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | California | Whitey (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 98% | 90% | The Lost Weekend | `Bim" Nolan, Male Nurse (Character) | - | 1945 |
| 86% | 72% | The Canterville Ghost | Lieutenant Kane (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Prairie Chickens | Clem (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Slightly Dangerous | Gateman (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nazty Nuisance | Seaman Benson (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Yanks Ahoy | German (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Silver Skates | Eddie (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Mystery of the 13th Guest | Speed Dugan (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Taxi, Mister | Silk (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | Somewhere I'll Find You | Slim (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Three | Seaman Benson (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fall In | Captain Gillis (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Joe Smith, American | Man in Waiting Room with Matches (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Devil With Hitler | Unknown (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thieves Fall Out | Pick (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Footsteps in the Dark | Gus (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | No Time for Comedy | Cab Driver (Character) | - | 1940 |
| 92% | 71% | They Drive by Night | Driver in cafe (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Married and in Love | Jim Carter (Character) | - | 1940 |
| 100% | 88% | The Grapes of Wrath | Tim Wallace, camp commiteeman (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nick Carter, Master Detective | Pete Foley (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Place to Go | Pete Shafter (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Slapsie Maxie's | Tiger Dorsey, the Champ (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cherokee Strip | Joe Brady (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Public Wedding | Trainman (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dance, Charlie, Dance | Ted Parks (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | Ever Since Eve | Bandit Leader (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Case of the Stuttering Bishop | Charlie Downs (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | Bullets or Ballots | Gatley (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Down the Stretch | Ben (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | King of Hockey | Unknown (Character) | - | 1936 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That Girl | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Petticoat Junction | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Beverly Hillbillies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Mother the Car | Conrad Byron (Guest Star) | 1965-1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dobie Gillis | Herbert T. Gillis (Character) | 1959-1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theater | Unknown (Character) | 1959 |
QUOTES FROM Frank Faylen CHARACTERS
Taxi driver says: Yes Maam.
Gerry Jeffers says: Where's the best place to get a divorce?
Tom Jeffers says: Gerry, for heavens sake!
Taxi driver says: Well most people go to Reno NV, but for my money it's Palm Beach. This time of the year you've got the track, you've got the ocean, you've got the palm trees...; three months, you leave from Penn Station.
Taxi driver says: Well most people go to Reno, Nevada, but for my money, it's Palm Beach. This time of the year you've got the track, you've got the ocean, you've got the palm trees. Three months, you leave from Penn Station.
Gerry Jeffers says: Look, I'm in an awful hurry. I haven't got a dime - will you take me there for nothing?
Taxi driver says: To where, Palm Beach?
Gerry Jeffers says: No-no, just to the station
Gerry Jeffers says: No no, just to the station
Taxi driver says: - oh, sure. Hop in babe.
Taxi driver says: Oh, sure. Hop in babe.