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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 29, 1909
Died
September 12, 1994
Place of Birth
Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Also Known As
- Samuel Yewell Tompkins
- Tommy Ewell
Tom Ewell
0.5 Popularity
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
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
7.6
Richard Sherman (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
5.7
(archive footage)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990
7.5
Josh Corbin
Murder, She Wrote
1984
6.0
Scrappleton
Easy Money
1983
0.0
Johnson
Terror at Alcatraz
1982
6.0
Jerome Kullens
Best of the West
1981
6.5
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
6.0
Eischied
1979
6.4
Hadley Crabtree
Tropic of Desire
1979
Credits
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2018
6.0
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
as Richard Sherman (archive footage)
2016
7.6
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
as (archive footage)
1990
5.7
Murder, She Wrote
as Josh Corbin
1984
7.5
Easy Money
as Scrappleton
1983
6.0
Terror at Alcatraz
as Johnson
1982
0.0
Best of the West
as Jerome Kullens
1981
6.0
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
6.5
Eischied
1979
6.0
Tropic of Desire
as Hadley Crabtree
1979
6.4
The Return of Mod Squad
as Cook
1979
5.0
Flying High
1978
4.5
Taxi
as Dr. Richmond
1978
7.2
Fantasy Island
as Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
1978
6.4
Promise Him Anything
as Judge
1975
0.0
Baretta
1975
6.4
The Great Gatsby
as Mourner (uncredited)
1974
6.3
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
as Lubow
1974
5.2
They Only Kill Their Masters
as Walter
1972
4.9
🎬
Temperatures Rising
as Harry Butler
1972
5.0
To Find a Man
as Dr. Hargrove
1972
6.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
7.0
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
as Billy Joe Davis
1970
5.0
The Name of the Game
as District Attorney Simpson
1968
6.8
The World of Abbott and Costello
as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
1965
6.3
Burke's Law
as Leander Clement
1963
6.0
Marilyn
as Self ("The Seven Year Itch") (archive footage) (uncredited)
1963
6.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
State Fair
as Abel Frake
1962
4.7
Tender Is the Night
as Abe North
1962
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
🎬
The Tom Ewell Show
1960
0.0
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
as Max Rutgers
1958
3.3
The Girl Can't Help It
as Tom Miller
1956
6.2
The Great American Pastime
as Bruce Hallerton
1956
0.0
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
6.0
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
as Gregory Whitcomb
1956
5.5
🎬
Playwrights '56
1955
6.0
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Albert Pelham
1955
7.8
The Seven Year Itch
as Richard Sherman
1955
7.1
General Electric Theater
as John Emmet Owens
1953
6.4
Back at the Front
as Willie
1952
0.0
Lost in Alaska
as Nugget Joe McDermott
1952
6.0
Finders Keepers
as Tiger Kipps
1952
0.0
Up Front
as Willie
1951
0.0
Mr. Music
as 'Cupcake' Haggerty
1950
4.0
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
as Jim Mitchell
1950
5.4
A Life of Her Own
as Tom Caraway
1950
5.1
Your Show of Shows
1950
6.3
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Tom Howard
1950
5.6
Adam's Rib
as Warren Attinger
1949
7.1
Lights Out
1949
5.8
Concerning a Woman of Sin
1949
0.0
Studio One
as Willie Mason
1948
5.0
🎬
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
1947
9.0
Desert Bandit
as Texas Ranger Ordway
1941
0.0
They Knew What They Wanted
as New Hired Hand (uncredited)
1940
5.8