Frank Faylen
Highest Rated: 100% The Lusty Men (1952)
Lowest Rated: 67% Detective Story (1951)
Birthday: Dec 8, 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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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93% | 85% | Funny Girl | Keeney (Character) | $223.3K | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | The Monkey's Uncle | Mr. Dearborne (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | When the Boys Meet the Girls | Phin Gray (Character) | - | 1965 |
| 85% | 69% | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | Sheriff Cotton Wilson (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | 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 | Three Brave Men | Enos Warren (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Everything but the Truth | "Mac" McMillan (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Terror at Midnight | Fred Hill (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | 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 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Hangman's Knot | Cass Browne (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 80% | 64% | The Sniper | Police Insp. Anderson (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 67% | 71% | Detective Story | Det. Gallagher (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | My Favorite Spy | Newton (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 71% | 73% | Fourteen Hours | Walter, room service waiter (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Passage West | Curly (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | Convicted | Convict Ponti (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Copper Canyon | Mullins (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | The Nevadan | Jeff (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Eagle and the Hawk | Red' Hyatt (Character) | - | 1950 |
| 80% | 68% | Francis | Sgt. Chillingbacker (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Race Street | Phil Dickson (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 83% | 62% | Blood on the Moon | Jake Pindalest (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 83% | 61% | Whispering Smith | Whitey Du Sang (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | The Perils of Pauline | Mr. Joe Gurt (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 100% | 77% | Road to Rio | Trigger (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Welcome Stranger | Bill Walters (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Easy Come, Easy Go | Boss (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 81% | 85% | To Each His Own | Babe (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | California | Whitey (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 100% | 72% | 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 | 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% | 66% | Blue Skies | Mack (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 | 40% | Mystery of the 13th Guest | Speed Dugan (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Slightly Dangerous | Gateman (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Prairie Chickens | Clem (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 | No Score Yet | Taxi, Mister | Silk (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Three | Seaman Benson (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Joe Smith, American | Man in Waiting Room with Matches (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | Somewhere I'll Find You | Slim (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fall In | Captain Gillis (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Devil With Hitler | Unknown (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Footsteps in the Dark | Gus (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thieves Fall Out | Pick (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | No Time for Comedy | Cab Driver (Character) | - | 1940 |
| 100% | 88% | The Grapes of Wrath | Tim Wallace, camp commiteeman (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 |
| 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 | Dance, Charlie, Dance | Ted Parks (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Public Wedding | Trainman (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cherokee Strip | Joe Brady (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 | No Score Yet | Down the Stretch | Ben (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | Bullets or Ballots | Gatley (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 | 100% | 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 |