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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Filmography
all 61
Movies 37
TV Shows 24
self 9
Self (archive footage)
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)
Movie
Self
Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime (2017)
Movie
Richard Sherman (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016)
Movie
(archive footage)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990)
Movie
Self (from The Seven Year Itch [1955]) (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986)
Movie
Josh Corbin
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
TV
7
Scrappleton
Easy Money (1983)
Movie
6
Johnson
Terror at Alcatraz (1982)
Movie
Doc Kullens
Best of the West (1981)
TV
Trapper John, M.D. (1979)
TV
6
Eischied (1979)
TV
Hadley Crabtree
Tropic of Desire (1979)
Movie
Cook
The Return of Mod Squad (1979)
Movie
Flying High (1978)
TV
Dr. Richmond
Taxi (1978)
TV
6.02
Judge
Promise Him Anything (1975)
Movie
Billy Truman
Baretta (1975)
TV
6
Mourner (uncredited)
The Great Gatsby (1974)
Movie
Lebow
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead (1974)
Movie
Walter
They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
Movie
Harry Butler
Temperatures Rising (1972)
TV
Dr. Hargrove
To Find a Man (1972)
Movie
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
TV
Billy Joe Davis
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)
Movie
Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska
The World of Abbott and Costello (1965)
Movie
Leander Clement
Burke's Law (1963)
TV
6
Self ('The Seven Year Itch') (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marilyn (1963)
Movie
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
TV
6
Self
The Merv Griffin Show (1962)
TV
Abel Frake
State Fair (1962)
Movie
Abe North
Tender Is the Night (1962)
Movie
Self
The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
TV
Tom Potter
The Tom Ewell Show (1960)
TV
Max Rutgers
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958)
Movie
Tom Miller
The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
Movie
8
Bruce Hallerton
The Great American Pastime (1956)
Movie
Self
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956)
TV
Gregory Whitcomb
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)
Movie
Playwrights '56 (1955)
TV
Albert Pelham
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
TV
4.75
Richard Sherman
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Movie
6.3
John Emmet Owens
General Electric Theater (1953)
TV
Willie
Back at the Front (1952)
Movie
Nugget Joe McDermott
Lost in Alaska (1952)
Movie
Tiger Kipps
Finders Keepers (1952)
Movie
Willie
Up Front (1951)
Movie
'Cupcake' Haggerty
Mr. Music (1950)
Movie
Jim Mitchell
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)
Movie
Tom Caraway
A Life of Her Own (1950)
Movie
Your Show of Shows (1950)
TV
Self - Mystery Guest
What's My Line? (1950)
TV
Tom Howard
Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)
TV
Man in Audience
How Green Is My Spinach (1950)
Movie
Warren Attinger
Adam's Rib (1949)
Movie
6.13
Lights Out (1949)
TV
Concerning a Woman of Sin (1949)
Movie
Willie Mason
Studio One (1948)
TV
Actor
Actors Studio (1948)
TV
Harold
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful (1947)
Movie
Texas Ranger Ordway
Desert Bandit (1941)
Movie
New Hired Hand (uncredited)
They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
Movie
Ratings
Average 5.6
Based on 205 Thousand movie and tv ratings over time
1940
1952
1962
1955
2018
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1909-04-29
Deathday1994-09-12 (85 years old)
Birth PlaceOwensboro, United States of America
RelationshipsJudith Abbott (1946-03-19 - 1947-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsSamuel Yewell Tompkins, Tommy Ewell
AwardsDonaldson Awards, Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, Clarence Derwent Awards
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