Tom Ewell

Personal Info

Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
April 29, 1909

Place of Birth:
Owensboro, Kentucky, USA

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Tom Ewell

Biography

Tom Ewell (born Samuel Yewell Tompkins) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He is noted for having Starred alongside two of Classic Hollywood's Iconic Bombshells, first reprising his stage role in The Seven Year Itch (1955), which he starred Opposite Marilyn Munroe in what is considered one of her most iconic roles and then the following year The Girl Can't Help it (1956) alongside Jayne Mansfield in her breakthrough role. Ewell had 70 credits in film and television.

Known For

Filmography

Year Movie Role
2018 Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood Self (archive footage)
2016 All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone Richard Sherman (archive footage)
1990 Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (archive footage)
1986 Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend Self (from The Seven Year Itch [1955]) (archive footage)
1983 Easy Money Scrappleton
1982 Terror at Alcatraz Johnson
1979 Tropic of Desire Hadley Crabtree
1979 The Return of Mod Squad Cook
1975 Promise Him Anything Judge
1974 The Spy Who Returned from the Dead Lubow
1974 The Great Gatsby Mourner (uncredited)
1972 They Only Kill Their Masters Walter
1972 To Find a Man Dr. Hargrove
1970 Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? Billy Joe Davis
1965 The World of Abbott and Costello Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
1963 Marilyn Self ("The Seven Year Itch") (archive footage) (uncredited)
1962 State Fair Abel Frake
1962 Tender Is the Night Abe North
1958 A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed Max Rutgers
1956 The Girl Can't Help It Tom Miller
1956 The Great American Pastime Bruce Hallerton
1956 The Lieutenant Wore Skirts Gregory Whitcomb
1955 The Seven Year Itch Richard Sherman
1952 Finders Keepers Tiger Kipps
1952 Back at the Front Willie
1952 Lost in Alaska Nugget Joe McDermott
1951 Up Front Willie
1950 American Guerrilla in the Philippines Jim Mitchell
1950 Mr. Music 'Cupcake' Haggerty
1950 A Life of Her Own Tom Caraway
1949 Adam's Rib Warren Attinger
1949 Concerning a Woman of Sin
1947 Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
1941 Desert Bandit Texas Ranger Ordway
1940 They Knew What They Wanted New Hired Hand (uncredited)
Year TV Show Role
1984 Murder, She Wrote Josh Corbin
1981 Best of the West Jerome Kullens
1979 Trapper John, M.D.
1979 Eischied
1978 Flying High
1978 Taxi Dr. Richmond
1978 Fantasy Island Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
1975 Baretta
1972 Temperatures Rising Harry Butler
1971 Alias Smith and Jones
1968 The Name of the Game District Attorney Simpson
1963 Burke's Law Leander Clement
1962 The Merv Griffin Show Self
1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Self
1961 The Mike Douglas Show Self
1960 The Tom Ewell Show
1956 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show Self
1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Albert Pelham
1955 Playwrights '56
1953 General Electric Theater John Emmet Owens
1950 Your Show of Shows
1950 Robert Montgomery Presents Tom Howard
1950 What's My Line? Self - Mystery Guest
1949 Lights Out
1948 Studio One Willie Mason
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