Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 29, 1909
Died
Sep 12, 1994
Place of Birth
Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Credits
60 titles
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
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Richard Sherman (archive footage)
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
(archive footage)
Murder, She Wrote
Josh Corbin
Easy Money
Scrappleton
Terror at Alcatraz
Johnson
Best of the West
Jerome Kullens
Trapper John, M.D.
Eischied
Tropic of Desire
Hadley Crabtree
The Return of Mod Squad
Cook
Flying High
Taxi
Dr. Richmond
Fantasy Island
Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
Promise Him Anything
Judge
Baretta
The Great Gatsby
Mourner (uncredited)
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
Lubow
They Only Kill Their Masters
Walter
Temperatures Rising
Harry Butler
To Find a Man
Dr. Hargrove
Alias Smith and Jones
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Billy Joe Davis
The Name of the Game
District Attorney Simpson
The World of Abbott and Costello
Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
Burke's Law
Leander Clement
Marilyn
archive footage
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
State Fair
Abel Frake
Tender Is the Night
Abe North
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
The Tom Ewell Show
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Max Rutgers
The Girl Can't Help It
Tom Miller
The Great American Pastime
Bruce Hallerton
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Gregory Whitcomb
Playwrights '56
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Albert Pelham
The Seven Year Itch
Richard Sherman
General Electric Theater
John Emmet Owens
Back at the Front
Willie
Lost in Alaska
Nugget Joe McDermott
Finders Keepers
Tiger Kipps
Up Front
Willie
Mr. Music
'Cupcake' Haggerty
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Jim Mitchell
A Life of Her Own
Tom Caraway