Tom Ewell
April 29, 1909 (115 years old) in Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
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
Credits
- 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. as
- 1979 · Eischied as
- 1979 · Tropic of Desire as Hadley Crabtree
- 1979 · The Return of Mod Squad as Cook
- 1978 · Flying High as
- 1978 · Taxi as Dr. Richmond
- 1978 · Fantasy Island as Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
- 1975 · Promise Him Anything as Judge
- 1975 · Baretta as
- 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 as
- 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 as
- 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 as
- 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 as
- 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 as
- 1949 · Concerning a Woman of Sin as
- 1948 · Studio One as Willie Mason
- 1947 · Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful as
- 1941 · Desert Bandit as Texas Ranger Ordway
- 1940 · They Knew What They Wanted as New Hired Hand (uncredited)