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