Tom Ewell
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1909-04-29
Day of Death
1994-09-12 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Tom Ewell
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
Acting
(2018)
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(2016)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
as Richard Sherman (archive footage)
(1990)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
as (archive footage)
(1986)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self (from The Seven Year Itch [1955]) (archive footage)
(1983)
Easy Money
as Scrappleton
(1982)
Terror at Alcatraz
as Johnson
(1979)
Tropic of Desire
as Hadley Crabtree
(1979)
The Return of Mod Squad
as Cook
(1975)
Promise Him Anything
as Judge
(1974)
The Great Gatsby
as Mourner (uncredited)
(1974)
(1972)
They Only Kill Their Masters
as Walter
(1972)
To Find a Man
as Dr. Hargrove
(1970)
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
as Billy Joe Davis
(1965)
The World of Abbott and Costello
as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
(1963)
Marilyn
as Self ("The Seven Year Itch") (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1962)
State Fair
as Abel Frake
(1962)
Tender Is the Night
as Abe North
(1958)
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
as Max Rutgers
(1956)
The Girl Can't Help It
as Tom Miller
(1956)
The Great American Pastime
as Bruce Hallerton
(1956)
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
as Gregory Whitcomb
(1955)
The Seven Year Itch
as Richard Sherman
(1952)
Lost in Alaska
as Nugget Joe McDermott
(1952)
Finders Keepers
as Tiger Kipps
(1952)
Back at the Front
as Willie
(1951)
Up Front
as Willie
(1950)
A Life of Her Own
as Tom Caraway
(1950)
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
as Jim Mitchell
(1950)
Mr. Music
as 'Cupcake' Haggerty
(1949)
Adam's Rib
as Warren Attinger
(1949)
(1947)
(1941)
Desert Bandit
as Texas Ranger Ordway
(1940)
They Knew What They Wanted
as New Hired Hand (uncredited)