Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1909-04-29

Deathday

1994-09-12 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Owensboro, Kentucky, USA

Also Known As

Samuel Yewell Tompkins
Tommy Ewell

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

7.1%

The Seven Year Itch

Jun 3, 1955

6.3%

The Great Gatsby

Mar 27, 1974

7.5%

Murder, She Wrote

Sep 30, 1984

7.1%

Adam's Rib

Nov 18, 1949

7.7%

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Oct 2, 1955

7.2%

Taxi

Sep 12, 1978

6.0%

Easy Money

Aug 19, 1983

6.4%

Fantasy Island

Jan 28, 1978

7.5%

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Oct 1, 1962

6.1%

The Girl Can't Help It

Dec 1, 1956

6.0%

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Jul 27, 2018

6.3%

Baretta

Jan 17, 1975

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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)

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.
1979		Eischied
1979		Tropic of Desire as Hadley Crabtree
1979		The Return of Mod Squad as Cook

1978		Flying High
1978		Taxi as Dr. Richmond
1978		Fantasy Island as Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan

1975		Promise Him Anything as Judge
1975		Baretta

1974		The Great Gatsby as Mourner (uncredited)
1974		The Spy Who Returned from the Dead as Lubow

1972		They Only Kill Their Masters as Walter
1972		Temperatures Rising as Harry Butler
1972		To Find a Man as Dr. Hargrove

1971

Alias Smith and Jones

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
1963		Marilyn as Self ("The Seven Year Itch") (archive footage) (uncredited)

1962		The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962		The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1962		State Fair as Abel Frake
1962		Tender Is the Night as Abe North

1961

The Mike Douglas Show as Self

1960

The Tom Ewell Show

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 Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
1956		The Lieutenant Wore Skirts as Gregory Whitcomb

1955		Playwrights '56
1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Albert Pelham
1955		The Seven Year Itch as Richard Sherman

1953

General Electric Theater as John Emmet Owens

1952		Back at the Front as Willie
1952		Lost in Alaska as Nugget Joe McDermott
1952		Finders Keepers as Tiger Kipps

1951

Up Front as Willie

1950		Mr. Music as 'Cupcake' Haggerty
1950		American Guerrilla in the Philippines as Jim Mitchell
1950		A Life of Her Own as Tom Caraway
1950		Your Show of Shows
1950		What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
1950		Robert Montgomery Presents as Tom Howard

1949		Adam's Rib as Warren Attinger
1949		Lights Out
1949		Concerning a Woman of Sin

1948

Studio One as Willie Mason

1947

Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful

1941

Desert Bandit as Texas Ranger Ordway

1940

They Knew What They Wanted as New Hired Hand (uncredited)