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Acting
Tom Ewell
Also known as: Samuel Yewell Tompkins, Tommy 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.
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 29, 1909
Day of Death
September 12, 1994
Age at Death
85 years old
Place of Birth
Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Popularity Score
0.7
Filmography
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2018Movie
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Richard Sherman (archive footage)
2016Movie
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
Self (archive footage)
2015Movie
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
(archive footage)
1990Movie
Murder, She Wrote
Josh Corbin
1984TV
Easy Money
Scrappleton
1983Movie
Terror at Alcatraz
Johnson
1982Movie
Best of the West
Jerome Kullens
1981TV
Tropic of Desire
Hadley Crabtree
1979Movie
The Return of Mod Squad
Cook
1979Movie
Trapper John, M.D.
1979TV
Eischied
1979TV
Flying High
1978TV
Taxi
Dr. Richmond
1978TV
Fantasy Island
Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
1978TV
Promise Him Anything
Judge
1975Movie
Baretta
1975TV
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
Lubow
1974Movie
The Great Gatsby
Mourner (uncredited)
1974Movie
They Only Kill Their Masters
Walter
1972Movie
To Find a Man
Dr. Hargrove
1972Movie
Temperatures Rising
Harry Butler
1972TV
Alias Smith and Jones
1971TV
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Billy Joe Davis
1970Movie
The Name of the Game
District Attorney Simpson
1968TV
The World of Abbott and Costello
Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
1965Movie
Marilyn
archive footage
1963Movie
Burke's Law
Leander Clement
1963TV
State Fair
Abel Frake
1962Movie
Tender Is the Night
Abe North
1962Movie
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962TV
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961TV
The Tom Ewell Show
1960TV
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Max Rutgers
1958Movie
The Girl Can't Help It
Tom Miller
1956Movie
The Great American Pastime
Bruce Hallerton
1956Movie
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Gregory Whitcomb
1956Movie
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
1956TV
The Seven Year Itch
Richard Sherman
1955Movie
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Albert Pelham
1955TV
Playwrights '56
1955TV
General Electric Theater
John Emmet Owens
1953TV
Finders Keepers
Tiger Kipps
1952Movie
Back at the Front
Willie
1952Movie
Lost in Alaska
Nugget Joe McDermott
1952Movie
Up Front
Willie
1951Movie
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Jim Mitchell
1950Movie
Mr. Music
'Cupcake' Haggerty
1950Movie
A Life of Her Own
Tom Caraway
1950Movie
Your Show of Shows
1950TV
Robert Montgomery Presents
Tom Howard
1950TV
What's My Line?
Self
1950TV
Adam's Rib
Warren Attinger
1949Movie
Concerning a Woman of Sin
1949Movie
Lights Out
1949TV
Studio One
Willie Mason
1948TV
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
1947Movie
Desert Bandit
Texas Ranger Ordway
1941Movie
They Knew What They Wanted
New Hired Hand (uncredited)
1940Movie