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Frank Faylen
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Former father-in-law of
Regis Philbin
.
Was in two Oscar Best Picture winners:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
and
The Lost Weekend (1945)
, and eight other Best Picture nominees:
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
,
Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
,
Sergeant York (1941)
,
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
,
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
,
Wake Island (1942)
,
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
and
Funny Girl (1968)
.
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6201 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
Wore a white wig playing "Whitey," the hired gun killed by
Alan Ladd
in
Whispering Smith (1948)
.
Played a taxi driver in
Preston Sturges
'
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
and in
Frank Capra
's
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
.
Father of actress
Carol Faylen
and
Kay Faylen
.
The muppet "Ernie" on
Sesame Street (1969)
was rumored to be named after Faylen's character (Ernie the Taxi Driver) in
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
.
His most famous line as Herbert T. Gillis from
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959)
is "I"m gonna kill that boy.".
Best remembered at TV Dad Herbert T. Gillis father of Dobie Gillis on
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959)
.
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