TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Frank Faylen.
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Actor Facts
Birth:
December 8, 1905
Death:
August 2, 1985
Biography:
American character actor who specialized in average-guy parts and who could be equally effective in sympathetic or unlikeable roles. His parents, the vaudeville team of Ruf and Cusik, took him onstage with them when he was a baby, and Faylen grew up in the theatre. He attended St. ...more about Frank Faylen
Frank Faylen
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
1.1221
16
1940s
2.3543
54
1950s
2.2468
25
1960s
1.5992
4
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards for each movie.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.2871
2.2871Frank Faylen Movie Rankings
1
3.6805Based on the John Steinbeck novel, Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) is a man just released from prison, but when he returns home to his family farm, he finds it deserted. It seems the depression and the drought has forced the farmers to find greener pastures. ...more about Grapes of Wrath
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
2
3.6399George Bailey is a selfless man in turmoil. When he misplaces $8000 he feels it's the end and contemplates ending his life. When his guardian angel, Clarence, shows George what his town and family would have been like without him George reconsiders. ...more about It's a Wonderful Life
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
3
3.1908The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein. ...more about Funny Girl
- DVD Best Pricing:
DVDEmpire
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4
3.0014Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been "on the wagon" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen, he begins a four-day bender. ...more about Lost Weekend
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
5
2.9467On a day in the life of the 21st Precinct detective squad, we meet a batty old lady; petty embezzler Arthur, and the wonderful girl whose unrequited love may redeem him; a pair of blustering, but dangerous, burglars; a charmingly naive shoplifter who ...more about Detective Story
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
6
2.8706Producer Walter Wanger, who had just been released from a prison term after shooting a man he believed was having an affair with his wife, wanted to make a film about the appalling conditions he saw while he was incarcerated. ...more about Riot in Cell Block 11
- Not Available on DVD
7
2.7183When Johnny comes home from the navy he finds his wife Helen kissing her substitute boyfriend Eddie, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. Helen admits her drunkenness caused their son's death. He pulls a gun on her but decides she's not worth it. ...more about Blue Dahlia
- Not Available on DVD
8
2.6658A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. ...more about Fourteen Hours
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
9
2.6391During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar. ...more about To Each His Own
- Not Available on DVD
10
2.5730After the long career of lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp deciedes to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. There he would see them in feud with Clantons, local clan of thugs and cattle thieves. ...more about Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
11
2.5661A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. ...more about They Won't Forget
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.5661Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine hires a replacement for his vacation sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but Pearson is delighted to stay, once he meets teacher Trudy Mason. ...more about Welcome Stranger
- Not Available on DVD
13
2.5419When he sustains a rodeo injury, star rider Jeff McCloud returns to his hometown after many years of absence. He signs on as a hired hand with a local ranch, where he befriends fellow ranch hand Wes and his wife Louise. ...more about Lusty Men
- Not Available on DVD
14
2.5282Mac's plans to settle down and raise a family are upset by the Korean War. He goes as a fighter pilot and returns a hero, the first triple ace of the war. His neighbors have built a home for Mac and his devoted wife and their three children. ...more about McConnell Story
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.5040Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can't stay committed to anything in life for very long. ...more about Blue Skies
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
16
2.4519Playwright Gaylord Esterbrook scores a hit with his first Broadway play, both with the critics and with leading lady Linda Paige. ...more about No Time for Comedy
- Not Available on DVD
17
2.4078When a shady-looking stranger rides into town to join his old friend it is assumed he is a hired gun. ...more about Blood on the Moon
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.3866It's 1865 in Nevada and a unit of Reb soldiers attack a Union troop carrying gold. They kill the soldiers and capture the gold only to learn the war ended a month ago. ...more about Hangman's Knot
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
19
2.3347Illegal immigrant and showgirl Johnny Jones is due to be deported from the USA, her only hope is to get married, but her rich publisher boyfriend Barton Kendrick is already married! She meets down-on-his-luck author, Bill Smith, and proposes a marriage ...more about Come Live with Me
- Not Available on DVD
20
2.3035In the 1600s, cowardly Sir Simon of Canterville flees a duel and seeks solace in the family castle. His ashamed father seals him in the room where he is hiding and dooms him to life as a ghost until one of his descendants performs a brave deed. ...more about Canterville Ghost
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.2908Having lost his heavyweight championship match, boxer Ernie Driscoll now drives a taxi for a living and earns the scorn of his nagging wife, Pauline, who blames him for her lack of social status. ...more about 99 River Street
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.2556Charles Stewart, the "Pilgrim" owner's playboy son, finds himself shanghaied on his father's ship commanded by cruel Captain Thompson. When scurvy breaks out he leads a mutiny and is slapped in irons. Floggings and torture abound. ...more about Two Years Before the Mast
- Not Available on DVD
23
2.1064The boys are recruited by a gang of thugs to get a coffin containing one of their far from dead colleagues to Dayton to try and get at an inheritance. ...more about A-Haunting We Will Go
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
24
2.1035A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. ...more about Copper Canyon
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
25
2.0958When a bellhop knocks out fighter Chuck McGraw, promoter Nick Donati realizes he's a potential champ. "Kid Galahad" justifies Nick's confidence, but Nick's mistress Fluff falls for him; in turn, the Kid falls for Nick's young sister. ...more about Kid Galahad
- Not Available on DVD
26
2.0898Peanuts White, a burlesque comic, is recruited by U.S. agents to impersonate international spy Eric Augustine (whom White resembles) in a mission to purchase a million-dollar microfilm in mysterious, exotic Tangier. ...more about My Favorite Spy
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.0706College whiz-kid Merlin Jones concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a chimpanzee, then creates a flying machine of his own design, ultimately raising havoc on the campus. ...more about Monkey's Uncle
- Not Available on DVD
28
2.0031Apparently rejected by women all his life, a loner with a high-power rifle starts on a trail of murder. The police are baffled by the apparently random killings until their psychologist comes up with some ideas. ...more about Sniper
- Not Available on DVD
29
1.9314Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. ...more about Perils of Pauline
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
31
1.7442"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. ...more about California
- Not Available on DVD
32
1.6164Smith as an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railraod and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa). ...more about Whispering Smith
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
33
1.6095Benchley takes the audience on a tour through Disney studios. Alan Ladd plays one of the animators we meet along the way. The live-action footage was cut in later TV releases. ...more about Reluctant Dragon
- DVD Best Pricing:
Wal Mart
36
1.5511The story of USS 'Belinda', Attack Transport PA22, launched late 1943 with regular-navy captain Hawks and ex-merchant captain MacDougall as boat commander. ...more about Away All Boats
- Not Available on DVD
37
1.5068Another in the excellent Hope and Crosby 'Road To' series. Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. ...more about Road to Rio
- DVD Best Pricing:
DVDEmpire
38
1.5054Returning to Fort Lincoln, Captain Benson learns of Custer's defeat at the Little Big Horn. At the inquiry as Custer's Officers blame Custer for the defeat, Benson tries to defend him. ...more about 7th Cavalry
- Not Available on DVD
39
1.4993The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his ...more about Francis
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
40
1.4963Willie Taylor, small-town 4th-grade schoolboy, takes to heart his admired teacher's words about truthfulness, and repeats in public his uncle's remark about paying a kickback to the mayor. ...more about Everything But the Truth
- Not Available on DVD
43
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy (Dorothy Lamour), Bobby (Betty Hutton), Josie (Diana Lynn) and Patti (Mimi Chandler), aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel (Raymond Walburn) to buy a soy bean ...more about And the Angels Sing
- Not Available on DVD
47
In the second of this series of "Streamliner" westerns from Hal Roach (preceded by "Dudes Are Pretty People" and followed by "Prairie Chickens"), wandering cowboys Pidge Crosby (Noah Beery, Jr. ...more about Calaboose
- Not Available on DVD
48
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. ...more about Case of the Stuttering Bishop
- Not Available on DVD
49
It's the opening of the Cherokee Strip and Ling Carter has slipped in early and now controls the new town of Big Rock. His old nemesis Dick Hudson is also there but he is unsuccessful in his battle with Carter. ...more about Cherokee Strip
- Not Available on DVD
50
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is sued for plagiarism. ...more about Dance Charlie Dance
- Not Available on DVD
53
1863. Texas Ranger Todd Croyden and Union spy Whitney Randolph cross into Mexico to investigate a growing struggle for power between the French-supported Maximilian and the native-born Benito Juarez. ...more about Eagle and the Hawk
- Not Available on DVD
54
A film that possibly held the record for the most Irish-descent players in an American-produced movie before "The Quiet Man" was shot on location in Ireland, and that includes "The Informer. ...more about Easy Come
- Not Available on DVD
55
Captain Gillis (Frank Faylen) puts Sergeant "Dodo" Doubleday (William Tracy), because of his photographic memory, on a candidates list for Officer's Training School ahead of Sergeant William Ames (Joe Sawyer), much to the dismay of the Ames. ...more about Fall In
- Not Available on DVD
56
A remake of Monogram's 1934 "City Limits" with practically all of the character role names the same as in the earlier film, and the primary difference here is that the author of the original story, Jack Woodford, receives no mention here. ...more about Father Steps Out
- Not Available on DVD
61
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. ...more about Invisible Menace
- Not Available on DVD
64
Cruze arrives in town and when he stands up to the three Moran brothers, he gets appointed Marshal. First the brothers kill a rancher while framing another man. But when the jailer is murdered, Cruze gets evidence the Morans did it. ...more about Lone Gun
- Not Available on DVD
72
Andrew Plummer is content living in an old soldiers home, but he agrees to move in with his son and his wife thinking that his son needs help with his business. Andrew later finds out that he's only in the way in his new surroundings. ...more about No Place to Go
- Not Available on DVD
74
Cornelia and Emily, at college in the early 1920s, have triangle trouble with their beaus. Their affairs become entangled with those of a chance-met, kindly bootlegger. Much of the humor derives from pre-Roaring Twenties naivity. ...more about Our Hearts Were Growing Up
- Not Available on DVD
75
In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns. ...more about Passage West
- Not Available on DVD
76
Another in the Roach "streamliner" series of semi-westerns top-billing Jimmy Rogers (Jimmy) and Noah Beery, Jr.(Pidge) as out-of-work cowhands. ...more about Prairie Chickens
- Not Available on DVD
77
Nice-guy bookie Dan Gannin plans to quit the racket; he's opening a new night club with his torch-singing sister as main attraction. ...more about Race Street
- Not Available on DVD
78
A musical about a man, [START] Reb Randall [END], who rides into a frontier town looking for his brother's killer, but is surprised to find everyone in the town is celebrating his kin's death and, for that matter, gunplay in general. ...more about Red Garters
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
82
Claire (Patricia Morison), owner of an ice-show, faces bankruptcy because Belita (Belita), star of the show, is about to leave and marry her sweetheart Tom (Henry Wadsworth). ...more about Silver Skates
- Not Available on DVD
83
When a waiter accidentally KOs boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in Slapsie Maxie's nightclub, Rosenbloom arranges a boxing match between the reluctant waiter and the champ. ...more about Slapsie Maxie's
- Not Available on DVD
84
Captain Mary Morley (Paulette Goddard), WAC marital-relations expert, known as "Captain Lonelyhearts", returns from overseas as escort to some G.I. ...more about Suddenly
- Not Available on DVD
88
Its is NYC in 1928 and taxi-cab owners Tim McGuerin (William Bendix) and Eddie Corbett (Joe Sawyer) are making a hard-scrabble living with the one tumbledown cab they have between them, and take shifts driving. ...more about Taxi
- Not Available on DVD
90
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. ...more about Thieves Fall Out
- Not Available on DVD
94
This film is a 1949 compilation from two films in the "McGuerin" streamliners series made by Hal Roach in 1942; "The McGuerins from Brooklyn" and "Taxi, Mister" which accounts for players Lew Kelly, Clyde Fillmore and Tyler Brooke being in a 1949 movie. ...more about Two Knights from Brooklyn
- Not Available on DVD
95
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick ...more about Variety Girl
- Not Available on DVD
96
Jim Dolan (Dennis Morgan) can't resist a good fight until Ann Stacey (Gloria Dickson) makes him promise to give up fighting to marry her. ...more about Waterfront
- Not Available on DVD
97
Danny Churchill is a young heir who tries to help Ginger, an attractive postal worker in rural Nevada, save her father's ranch from closing due to being heavily in debt with some Reno gangster types for her father's compulsive gambling. ...more about When the Boys Meet the Girls
- Not Available on DVD
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