Tom Ewell
Acting
Born: 1909-04-29 in Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Murder, She Wrote
Josh Corbin
What's My Line?
Self
Taxi
Dr. Richmond
Fantasy Island
Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
Robert Montgomery Presents
Tom Howard
Studio One
Willie Mason
Baretta
Baretta
Billy Truman
The Name of the Game
District Attorney Simpson
Burke's Law
Leander Clement
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Albert Pelham
Trapper John, M.D.
Alias Smith and Jones
Lights Out
Your Show of Shows
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
Temperatures Rising
Harry Butler
Tropic of Desire
Hadley Crabtree
Flying High
Best of the West
Jerome Kullens
The Great Gatsby
Mourner (uncredited)
Playwrights '56
The Seven Year Itch
Richard Sherman
The Tom Ewell Show
Eischied
General Electric Theater
John Emmet Owens
Adam's Rib
Warren Attinger
The Girl Can't Help It
Tom Miller
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Richard Sherman (archive footage)
Easy Money
Scrappleton
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
State Fair
Abel Frake
Tender Is the Night
Abe North
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
Self (archive footage)
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Jim Mitchell
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
(archive footage)
Mr. Music
'Cupcake' Haggerty