Tom Ewell
Birthday
1909/04/29
Day of death
1994/09/12 (85 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Also know 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.
Acting
(1955) The Seven Year Itch
as Richard Sherman
(1990) Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
as (archive footage)
(1952) Finders Keepers
as Tiger Kipps
(1949) Adam's Rib
as Warren Attinger
(1962) State Fair
as Abel Frake
(1956) The Girl Can't Help It
as Tom Miller
(1972) They Only Kill Their Masters
as Walter
(1983) Easy Money
as Scrappleton
(1950) American Guerrilla in the Philippines
as Jim Mitchell
(1956) The Great American Pastime
as Bruce Hallerton
(1956) The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
as Gregory Whitcomb
(1950) Mr. Music
as 'Cupcake' Haggerty
(1958) A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
as Max Rutgers
(1972) To Find a Man
as Dr. Hargrove
(2018) Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(1950) A Life of Her Own
as Tom Caraway
(1986) Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self (from The Seven Year Itch [1955]) (archive footage)
(1970) Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
as Billy Joe Davis
(1951) Up Front
as Willie
(1952) Back at the Front
as Willie
(1982) Terror at Alcatraz
as Johnson
(1947) Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
as ---
(1974) The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
as Lubow
(1979) Tropic of Desire
as Hadley Crabtree
(1940) They Knew What They Wanted
as New Hired Hand (uncredited)
(1941) Desert Bandit
as Texas Ranger Ordway
(1975) Promise Him Anything
as Judge
(1952) Lost in Alaska
as Nugget Joe McDermott
(2016) All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
as Richard Sherman (archive footage)
(1979) The Return of Mod Squad
as Cook
(1963) Marilyn
as Self ("The Seven Year Itch") (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1962) Tender Is the Night
as Abe North
(1965) The World of Abbott and Costello
as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
(1949) Concerning a Woman of Sin
as ---
(1974) The Great Gatsby
as Mourner (uncredited)
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Josh Corbin
(1963) Burke's Law
as Leander Clement
(1979) Trapper John, M.D.
as ---
(1962) The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
(1981) Best of the West
as Jerome Kullens
(1975) Baretta
as ---
(1971) Alias Smith and Jones
as ---
(1953) General Electric Theater
as John Emmet Owens
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Albert Pelham
(1950) Your Show of Shows
as ---
(1956) The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
(1950) Robert Montgomery Presents
as Tom Howard
(1955) Playwrights '56
as ---
(1979) Eischied
as ---
(1949) Lights Out
as ---
(1978) Flying High
as ---
(1960) The Tom Ewell Show
as ---
(1978) Taxi
as Dr. Richmond
(1961) The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
(1948) Studio One
as Willie Mason
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(1972) Temperatures Rising
as Harry Butler
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
(1968) The Name of the Game
as District Attorney Simpson
(1978) Fantasy Island
as Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan