Tom Ewell

Apr 29, 1909 - Sep 12, 1994 (85 years old) in Owensboro, Kentucky, USA

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

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Robert Montgomery Presents

Tom Howard

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Studio One

Willie Mason

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Murder, She Wrote

Josh Corbin

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What's My Line?

Self - Mystery Guest

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Burke's Law

Leander Clement

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Taxi

Dr. Richmond

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The Name of the Game

District Attorney Simpson

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The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Self

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Alias Smith and Jones

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Your Show of Shows

Credits

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood 2018

Self (archive footage)

★ 6
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone 2016

Richard Sherman (archive footage)

★ 7.7
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths 1990

(archive footage)

★ 5.7
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend 1986

Self (from The Seven Year Itch [1955]) (archive footage)

★ 7.5
Murder, She Wrote 1984

Josh Corbin

★ 7.5
Easy Money 1983

Scrappleton

★ 6
Terror at Alcatraz 1982

Johnson

★ NR
Best of the West 1981

Jerome Kullens

★ 6
Trapper John, M.D. 1979

★ 6.5
Eischied 1979

★ 6
Tropic of Desire 1979

Hadley Crabtree

★ 6.8
The Return of Mod Squad 1979

Cook

★ 5
Flying High 1978

★ 4.5
Taxi 1978

Dr. Richmond

★ 7.2
Fantasy Island 1978

Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan

★ 6.4
Promise Him Anything 1975

Judge

★ NR
Baretta 1975

★ 6.3
The Great Gatsby 1974

Mourner (uncredited)

★ 6.3
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead 1974

Lubow

★ 5.2
They Only Kill Their Masters 1972

Walter

★ 5.3
Temperatures Rising 1972

Harry Butler

★ 5
To Find a Man 1972

Dr. Hargrove

★ 6
Alias Smith and Jones 1971

★ 6.9
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? 1970

Billy Joe Davis

★ 5
The Name of the Game 1968

District Attorney Simpson

★ 6.8
The World of Abbott and Costello 1965

Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)

★ 6.3
Burke's Law 1963

Leander Clement

★ 6
Marilyn 1963

Self ("The Seven Year Itch") (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 6
State Fair 1962

Abel Frake

★ 4.9
Tender Is the Night 1962

Abe North

★ 5.4
The Tom Ewell Show 1960

★ NR
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed 1958

Max Rutgers

★ 3.3
The Girl Can't Help It 1956

Tom Miller

★ 6.1
The Great American Pastime 1956

Bruce Hallerton

★ NR
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show 1956

Self

★ 6
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts 1956

Gregory Whitcomb

★ 5.5
Playwrights '56 1955

★ 6
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955

Albert Pelham

★ 7.7
The Seven Year Itch 1955

Richard Sherman

★ 7.1
General Electric Theater 1953

John Emmet Owens

★ 6.3
Back at the Front 1952

Willie

★ NR
Lost in Alaska 1952

Nugget Joe McDermott

★ 6
Finders Keepers 1952

Tiger Kipps

★ NR
Up Front 1951

Willie

★ NR
Mr. Music 1950

'Cupcake' Haggerty

★ 4
American Guerrilla in the Philippines 1950

Jim Mitchell

★ 5.5
A Life of Her Own 1950

Tom Caraway

★ 5.3
Your Show of Shows 1950

★ 6.3
What's My Line? 1950

Self - Mystery Guest

★ 6.9
Robert Montgomery Presents 1950

Tom Howard

★ 5.6
Adam's Rib 1949

Warren Attinger

★ 7.1
Lights Out 1949

★ 5.3
Concerning a Woman of Sin 1949

★ NR
Studio One 1948

Willie Mason

★ 5
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful 1947

★ 9
Desert Bandit 1941

Texas Ranger Ordway

★ NR
They Knew What They Wanted 1940

New Hired Hand (uncredited)

★ 5.6

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