Tom Ewell
Born: 1909-04-29 in Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Died: 1994-09-12
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
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)
2015
- Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde as (archive footage)
1990
- Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths as (archive footage)
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Josh Corbin
1983
- Easy Money as Scrappleton
1982
- Terror at Alcatraz as Johnson
1981
- Best of the West as Jerome Kullens
1979
- Trapper John, M.D.
- Tropic of Desire as Hadley Crabtree
- Eischied
- The Return of Mod Squad as Cook
1978
- Taxi as Dr. Richmond
- Fantasy Island as Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
- Flying High
1975
- Baretta
- Promise Him Anything as Judge
1974
- The Great Gatsby as Mourner (uncredited)
- The Spy Who Returned from the Dead as Lubow
1972
- Temperatures Rising as Harry Butler
- They Only Kill Their Masters as Walter
- To Find a Man as Dr. Hargrove
1970
- Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? as Billy Joe Davis
1968
- The Name of the Game as District Attorney Simpson
1965
- The World of Abbott and Costello as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
1963
- Burke's Law as Leander Clement
- Marilyn as archive footage
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Tender Is the Night as Abe North
- State Fair as Abel Frake
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1960
1958
- A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed as Max Rutgers
1956
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- The Girl Can't Help It as Tom Miller
- The Great American Pastime as Bruce Hallerton
- The Lieutenant Wore Skirts as Gregory Whitcomb
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Albert Pelham
- Playwrights '56
- The Seven Year Itch as Richard Sherman
1953
- General Electric Theater as John Emmet Owens
1952
- Lost in Alaska as Nugget Joe McDermott
- Finders Keepers as Tiger Kipps
- Back at the Front as Willie
1951
- Up Front as Willie
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Tom Howard
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- Your Show of Shows
- A Life of Her Own as Tom Caraway
- American Guerrilla in the Philippines as Jim Mitchell
- Mr. Music as 'Cupcake' Haggerty
1949
- Lights Out
- Adam's Rib as Warren Attinger
- Concerning a Woman of Sin
1948
- Studio One as Willie Mason
1941
- Desert Bandit as Texas Ranger Ordway
1940
- They Knew What They Wanted as New Hired Hand (uncredited)