Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 29, 1909
Place of Birth:
Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
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.
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 |