Frank Faylen

Actor

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Also Known As

Frank Ruff

Birth Place

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Born

December 08, 1905

Died

August 02, 1985

Biography

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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...

Filmography

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Funny Girl (1968)

When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965)

The Monkey's Uncle (1965)

North to Alaska (1960)

Three Brave Men (1957)

Photos & Videos

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Blood On The Moon -- (Movie Clip) You'll Make Up The Difference

99 River Street (1953) -- (Movie Clip) -- Nothing But Television

Family & Companions

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Carol Hughes

Wife

Actor. Married 1936; starred as Dale Arden in the "Flash Gordon" serials.

Notes

Treasurer of the Screen Actors Guild.

President of the Masquers Club.

Biography

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).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Funny Girl (1968)

When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965)

The Monkey's Uncle (1965)

North to Alaska (1960)

Three Brave Men (1957)

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

7th Cavalry (1956)

Terror at Midnight (1956)

Away All Boats (1956)

Chief Phillip P. "Pappy" Moran

Everything but the Truth (1956)

Mac [McCormick]

The Looters (1955)

The McConnell Story (1955)

The Lone Gun (1954)

Red Garters (1954)

Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)

99 River Street (1953)

The Sniper (1952)

Inspector Anderson

Hangman's Knot (1952)

The Lusty Men (1952)

Passage West (1951)

My Favorite Spy (1951)

Detective Story (1951)

Fourteen Hours (1951)

Sgt. Chillingbacker

Convicted (1950)

The Eagle and the Hawk (1950)

Copper Canyon (1950)

The Nevadan (1950)

Whispering Smith (1949)

Blood on the Moon (1948)

Race Street (1948)

Cross My Heart (1947)

Fingerprint expert

Variety Girl (1947)

Easy Come, Easy Go (1947)

The Trouble with Women (1947)

California (1947)

Suddenly, It's Spring (1947)

Harold Michaels

The Perils of Pauline (1947)

Welcome Stranger (1947)

Road to Rio (1947)

Masquerade in Mexico (1946)

Our Hearts Were Growing Up (1946)

To Each His Own (1946)

The Blue Dahlia (1946)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Blue Skies (1946)

Two Years Before the Mast (1946)

The Well Groomed Bride (1946)

Duffy's Tavern (1945)

Incendiary Blonde (1945)

The Affairs of Susan (1945)

The Lost Weekend (1945)

You Came Along (1945)

Bring on the Girls (1945)

See Here, Private Hargrove (1944)

An American Romance (1944)

The National Barn Dance (1944)

Part of musical team

Standing Room Only (1944)

A Guy Named Joe (1944)

The Canterville Ghost (1944)

Lieutenant [John] Kane

Address Unknown (1944)

And the Angels Sing (1944)

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)

Mission to Moscow (1943)

Star Spangled Rhythm (1943)

Soldier in "That Old Black Magic" number

Slightly Dangerous (1943)

The Hard Way (1943)

Dixie Dugan (1943)

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

The Pride of the Yankees (1943)

She's for Me (1943)

Silver Skates (1943)

Prairie Chickens (1943)

Taxi, Mister (1943)

Good Morning, Judge (1943)

Get Going (1943)

The Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943)

Yanks Ahoy (1943)

The Good Fellows (1943)

The Gang's All Here (1943)

Young Ideas (1943)

Follow the Band (1943)

The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)

Corvette K-225 (1943)

Salute for Three (1943)

Soldier friend with Buzz

Nazty Nuisance (1943)

The Palm Beach Story (1942)

Wings for the Eagle (1942)

Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)

About Face (1942)

Three Hearts for Julia (1942)

Tough As They Come (1942)

Whispering Ghosts (1942)

Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942)

Ambulance driver

A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)

Railroad detective

Joe Smith, American (1942)

Across the Pacific (1942)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)

Theater manager

Wake Island (1942)

Sergeant York (1941)

H. M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)

Steel Against the Sky (1941)

Come Live with Me (1941)

Let's Go Collegiate (1941)

Tanks a Million (1941)

Top Sergeant Mulligan (1941)

Model Wife (1941)

Master of ceremonies

Thieves Fall Out (1941)

Father Steps Out (1941)

Footsteps in the Dark (1941)

Unholy Partners (1941)

Affectionately Yours (1941)

Ambulance driver

International Squadron (1941)

The Reluctant Dragon (1941)

Orchestra leader

Knockout (1941)

Blossoms in the Dust (1941)

Castle on the Hudson (1940)

Brother Orchid (1940)

Supt. of service

Curtain Call (1940)

Married and in Love (1940)

La Conga Nights (1940)

Jeepers Peepers

Pop Always Pays (1940)

No Time for Comedy (1940)

Mr. Leffingwell

Saturday's Children (1940)

Edison, the Man (1940)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Women in the Wind (1939)

Invisible Stripes (1939)

Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)

No Place to Go (1939)

Waterfront (1939)

Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)

It's a Wonderful World (1939)

The Star Maker (1939)

You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)

Lucky Night (1939)

Thunder Afloat (1939)

The Invisible Menace (1938)

Private of the guard

Too Hot to Handle (1938)

Assistant dubber

No Time to Marry (1938)

That Certain Woman (1937)

Smart Blonde (1937)

Ambulance driver

Dance Charlie Dance (1937)

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)

The Cherokee Strip (1937)

Headin' East (1937)

Kid Galahad (1937)

Talent Scout (1937)

Master of ceremonies

Back in Circulation (1937)

They Won't Forget (1937)

Reporter [Bill Price]

Marked Woman (1937)

The Golden Arrow (1936)

The Golden Arrow (1936)

Border Flight (1936)

King of Hockey (1936)

All American Chump (1936)

Bullets or Ballots (1936)

Down the Stretch (1936)

Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)

Man in washroom

The Sky Parade (1936)

Cast (Special)

Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis? (1977)

Herbert T Gillis; Dobie'S Father

Patrolman Callahan

Cast (Short)

Alice in Movieland (1940)

Slapsie Maxie's (1939)

Life Events

1935

Film debut, "Thanks a Million"

Photo Collections

7th Cavalry - Publicity Stills

7th Cavalry - Publicity Stills

It's a Wonderful Life - Lobby Card Set

Here is a lobby card set from Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Videos

Blood On The Moon -- (Movie Clip) You'll Make Up The Difference Rilling (Robert Preston) brings pal Jim (Robert Mitchum) to meet crooked partner Pindalest (Frank Faylen), explaining his proposition, in Robert Wise's high-brow Western Blood On The Moon, 1948.

99 River Street (1953) -- (Movie Clip) -- Nothing But Television Ex-fighter New York cabbie Eddie (John Payne) with buddy Stan (Frank Faylen) discussing marriage, when actress pal Linda (Evelyn Keyes) arrives, early in Phil Karlson's 99 River Street, 1953.

Sniper, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) They Said I Was Looking In Their Windows Big set piece by director Edward Dmytryk, Ralph Peters the snarky cop at the podium as suspects John Pickard, Byron Foulger and Ralph Smiley are shredded, then Richard Kiley’s first scene as shrink Kent, discouraging chief cop Anderson (Frank Faylen) and Lt. Kafka (Adolphe Menjou) in The Sniper, 1952.

Funny Girl (1968) -- (Movie Clip) I'm The Greatest Star! Not-yet famous Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) tries to explain her talents to Keeney (Frank Faylen), launching into "I'm the Greatest Star," by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, in an early scene from Funny Girl, 1968.

Funny Girl (1968) -- (Movie Clip) The Name's Arnstein Fanny (Barbra Streisand) is surprised by a backstage visit from Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif) who helps her through a speedy negotiation with Keeney (Frank Faylen) in William Wyler's Funny Girl, 1968.

Blue Dahlia, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) How Often Do They Change The Fleas? Some quick adjustments are made when two thugs (Frank Faylen, Walter Sande) deliver Johnny (Alan Ladd) to the hotel run by Corelli (Howard Freeman) and the cops appear, in The Blue Dahlia, 1946.

Across The Pacific (1942) -- (Movie Clip) You Takin' Root There? On a port of call in New York, Leland (Humphrey Bogart), having parked the babe he met on the Japanese freighter, does some urban evasion tricks for director John Huston, and we learn that he wasn’t really kicked out of the army, as he reports to Hart (Paul Stanton), in Across The Pacific, 1942.

Hangman's Knot - (Original Trailer) Rebel soldiers raid a Union gold shipment, then learn the Civil War has been over for a month in Hangman's Knot (1952) starring Randolph Scott.

Detective Story (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Just Supply The Finger Bert Freed as workaday detective Dakis and Lee Grant the shoplifter, in her Academy Award-nominated performance in the role she also played on Broadway, opening William Wyler's film from the Sidney Kingsley play, Detective Story, 1951, starring Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker.

Detective Story (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Personal Motives Desk officer (Frank Faylen) with out-of-towner (Harper Goff) when lawyer Sims (Warner Anderson) shows up to confront Monahan (Horace McMahon), who's already scolding detective McLeod (Kirk Douglas) for beating up the client/suspect, in William Wyler's Detective Story, 1951.

Come Live With Me (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Smith And Jones Having just met in passing, Bill (James Stewart) the starving writer and Johnny (Hedy Lamarr), the kept-woman suddenly threatened with deportation, seek shelter in a Manhattan diner, Frank Faylen the counter-man, Horace MacMahon the cabbie, in Clarence Brown's Come Live With Me, 1941.

Perils Of Pauline, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) The Sewing Machine Following a prologue, we meet Peal White (Betty Hutton), working for Joe Gurt (Frank Faylen) in a New York sweatshop, improvising Frank Loesser's The Sewing Machine, in the fanciful bio-pic, The Perils Of Pauline, 1947.

Lost Weekend, The - (Original Trailer) Academy Awards® for Best Picture, Actor, Director and Screenplay went to this groundbreaking study of alcoholism.

Kid Galahad (1937) - (Original Trailer) A mob-connected trainer (Edward G. Robinson) grooms a bellhop for the boxing ring. Co-starring Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart.

Saturday's Children - (Original Trailer) A young inventor's new marriage is jeopardized by financial problems. Starring John Garfield.

Unholy Partners - (Original Trailer) The editor of a tabloid (Edward G. Robinson) takes money from a gangster in Unholy Partners (1941).

Grapes of Wrath, The - (Original Trailer) Henry Fonda stars in John Ford's movie version of the John Steinbeck novel about Depression-era migrants, The Grapes of Wrath (1940).

Fourteen Hours - (Original Trailer) Richard Basehart threatens to jump off the ledge of his fourteenth floor hotel room in Fourteen Hours (1951).

Down the Stretch - (Original Trailer) A disgraced jockey's son (Mickey Rooney) fights to clear the family name in Down the Stretch (1936).

Dance, Charlie, Dance - (Original Trailer) A gullible "angel" sinks money into a doomed play in Dance, Charlie, Dance (1937).

Come Live With Me -- (Original Trailer) A Viennese refugee (Hedy Lamarr) weds a struggling author (James Stewart) platonically so she can stay in the U.S. Directed by Clarence Brown

Cherokee Strip, The - (Original Trailer) Outlaws lame singing cowboy Dick Foran's horse on the eve of the Oklahoma land rush in The Cherokee Strip (1937).

Blue Dahlia, The - (Original Trailer) Raymond Chandler's only movie written for the screen, The Blue Dahlia (1946), has Alan Ladd trying to clear his name of murder.

Waterfront - (Original Trailer) A hard-living dockworker (Dennis Morgan) finds religion until his brother is murdered on the Waterfront (1939).

Family

Kay Faylen

Daughter

Actor.

Carol Faylen

Daughter

Actor. Played eldest daughter on TV series, "The Bing Crosby SHow" (1964).

Companions

Carol Hughes

Wife

Actor. Married 1936; starred as Dale Arden in the "Flash Gordon" serials.

Bibliography

Notes

Treasurer of the Screen Actors Guild.

President of the Masquers Club.

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