Tom Ewell

Tom Ewell

  • Birthday: 1909-04-29
  • Deathday: 1994-09-12
  • Place of birth: Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
  • Also know as: Samuel Yewell Tompkins

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

The Seven Year Itch

1955

As Richard Sherman

Finders Keepers

1952

As Tiger Kipps

Adam's Rib

1949

As Warren Attinger

State Fair

1962

As Abel Frake

The Girl Can't Help It

1956

As Tom Miller

Easy Money

1983

As Scrappleton

The Great American Pastime

1956

As Bruce Hallerton

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

1956

As Gregory Whitcomb

Mr. Music

1950

As 'Cupcake' Haggerty

To Find a Man

1972

As Dr. Hargrove

A Life of Her Own

1950

As Tom Caraway

Up Front

1951

As Willie

Tropic of Desire

1979

As Hadley Crabtree

They Knew What They Wanted

1940

As New Hired Hand (uncredited)

Desert Bandit

1941

As Texas Ranger Ordway

Promise Him Anything

1975

As Judge

Lost in Alaska

1952

As Nugget Joe McDermott

Marilyn

1963

As Self ("The Seven Year Itch") (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tender Is the Night

1962

As Abe North

The World of Abbott and Costello

1965

As Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)

The Great Gatsby

1974

As Mourner (uncredited)

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

1986

As Self (from The Seven Year Itch [1955]) (archive footage)

Back at the Front

1952

As Willie

Terror at Alcatraz

1982

As Johnson

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

2018

As Self (archive footage)

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