Birthday: Apr 29, 1909
Place of Birth: Owensboro, Kentucky, USA

Tom Ewell

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.

Filmography

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

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