- 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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