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FRANK FAYLEN




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TV: North side of the 6200 block of Hollywood Boulevard

Actor

Born Dec. 8, 1905 in St. Louis, MO

Died Aug. 3, 1985 of respiratory failure in Burbank, Calif.



Frank Faylen was a character actor whose 70-year entertainment career ranged
from a Mississippi River showboat act to a role on the "Dobie Gillis" television
series.





He was a veteran of more than 400 films. His movie work included parts in "The
Grapes of Wrath," "Gunfight at the OK Corral" and "Funny Girl."





Under contract to Paramount, he portrayed scores of gangsters, policemen and
bartenders. His most-acclaimed role was in the 1945 film "The Lost Weekend." In
it, he played a sadistic nurse who tormented an alcoholic played by Ray Milland.





Faylen's other films included "Bullets or Ballots," "Kid Galahad," "Road to
Rio," "Detective Story," "Riot in Cell Block Eleven" and "North to Alaska."





He was most widely known for a television role, however. He portrayed Herbert T.
Gillis, the grocer-father of Dobie Gillis in the 1959-1963 television series
"The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" and in a subsequent Dobie Gillis TV movie.





— Bob Pool in the Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 1985



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 * Actor Frank Faylen Dies; Noted for Film, TV Roles




RELATED STARS

 * Ray Milland
   Costar
 * Bing Crosby
   Costar
 * John Payne
   Costar

Ray Milland, Jane Wyman and Frank Faylen were costars in "The Lost Weekend"
(1945).




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 1. Place of death: Burbank, Calif.
 2. Burial site: San Fernando Mission Cemetery, CA
 3. Place of birth: St. Louis, MO
 4. Hollywood Walk of Fame Star: TV


ONE THOUGHT ABOUT FRANK FAYLEN

“

Frank Faylen, my grandfather from my mother's side, - was an amazing man. My
mother is the ex-wife of Mr. Regis Philbin, my father, who also has a star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

” — Daniel J Philbin, July 21, 2011 at 8:04 a.m.




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