Tom Ewell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 29, 1909
- Died
- September 12, 1994 (aged 85)
- Birthplace
- Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
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
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Movie · as Richard Sherman (archive footage)
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Movie · as Self
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Josh Corbin · 1 ep
Easy Money
Movie · as Scrappleton
Terror at Alcatraz
Movie · as Johnson
Best of the West
TV · as Jerome Kullens · 22 eps
Tropic of Desire
Movie · as Hadley Crabtree
The Return of Mod Squad
Movie · as Cook
Trapper John, M.D.
TV · 1 ep
Eischied
TV · 1 ep
Flying High
TV · 1 ep
Taxi
TV · as Dr. Richmond · 1 ep
Fantasy Island
TV · as Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan · 1 ep
Promise Him Anything
Movie · as Judge
Baretta
TV · as Billy Truman · 2 eps
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
Movie · as Lubow
The Great Gatsby
Movie · as Mourner (uncredited)
They Only Kill Their Masters
Movie · as Walter
To Find a Man
Movie · as Dr. Hargrove
Temperatures Rising
TV · as Harry Butler · 1 ep
Alias Smith and Jones
TV · 1 ep
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Movie · as Billy Joe Davis
The Name of the Game
TV · as District Attorney Simpson · 1 ep
The World of Abbott and Costello
Movie · as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
Marilyn
Movie · as archive footage
Burke's Law
TV · as Leander Clement · 1 ep
State Fair
Movie · as Abel Frake
Tender Is the Night
Movie · as Abe North
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 7 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Tom Ewell Show
TV · 32 eps
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Movie · as Max Rutgers
The Girl Can't Help It
Movie · as Tom Miller
The Great American Pastime
Movie · as Bruce Hallerton
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Movie · as Gregory Whitcomb
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Presenter · 1 ep
The Seven Year Itch
Movie · as Richard Sherman
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Albert Pelham · 1 ep
Playwrights '56
TV · 1 ep
General Electric Theater
TV · as John Emmet Owens · 1 ep
Finders Keepers
Movie · as Tiger Kipps
Back at the Front
Movie · as Willie
Lost in Alaska
Movie · as Nugget Joe McDermott
Up Front
Movie · as Willie
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Movie · as Jim Mitchell
Mr. Music
Movie · as 'Cupcake' Haggerty
A Life of Her Own
Movie · as Tom Caraway
Your Show of Shows
TV · 2 eps
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV · as Tom Howard · 1 ep
What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Adam's Rib
Movie · as Warren Attinger
Concerning a Woman of Sin
Movie
Lights Out
TV · 1 ep
Studio One
TV · as Willie Mason · 1 ep
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
Movie
Desert Bandit
Movie · as Texas Ranger Ordway
They Knew What They Wanted
Movie · as New Hired Hand (uncredited)