Tom Ewell

Personal Info

Birthday

April 29, 1909

Day of Death

1994-09-12

(85 years old)

Place of Birth

Owensboro, Kentucky, USA

Also Known As

Samuel Yewell Tompkins

Tommy Ewell

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

Murder, She Wrote

Robert Montgomery Presents

Studio One

The Name of the Game

Burke's Law

Taxi

Fantasy Island

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Filmography

2018
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2016
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
as Richard Sherman (archive footage)
1990
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
as (archive footage)
1986
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self (from The Seven Year Itch [1955]) (archive footage)
1983
Easy Money
as Scrappleton
1982
Terror at Alcatraz
as Johnson
1979
Tropic of Desire
as Hadley Crabtree
The Return of Mod Squad
as Cook
1975
Promise Him Anything
as Judge
1974
The Great Gatsby
as Mourner (uncredited)
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
as Lubow
1972
They Only Kill Their Masters
as Walter
To Find a Man
as Dr. Hargrove
1970
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
as Billy Joe Davis
1965
The World of Abbott and Costello
as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
1963
Marilyn
as Self ("The Seven Year Itch") (archive footage) (uncredited)
1962
State Fair
as Abel Frake
Tender Is the Night
as Abe North
1958
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
as Max Rutgers
1956
The Girl Can't Help It
as Tom Miller
The Great American Pastime
as Bruce Hallerton
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
as Gregory Whitcomb
1955
The Seven Year Itch
as Richard Sherman
1952
Back at the Front
as Willie
Lost in Alaska
as Nugget Joe McDermott
Finders Keepers
as Tiger Kipps
1951
Up Front
as Willie
1950
Mr. Music
as 'Cupcake' Haggerty
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
as Jim Mitchell
A Life of Her Own
as Tom Caraway
1949
Adam's Rib
as Warren Attinger
1941
Desert Bandit
as Texas Ranger Ordway
1940
They Knew What They Wanted
as New Hired Hand (uncredited)