Tom Ewell
Known for: Acting
Born: April 29, 1909
Died: September 12, 1994
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
35 movies · 25 TV shows, newest first
5.9
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
7.4
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
6.4
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
2015
5.7
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
6.0
Easy Money
1983
10.0
Terror at Alcatraz
1982
6.8
Best of the West
1981
6.6
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
7.0
Eischied
1979
6.4
Tropic of Desire
1979
7.0
The Return of Mod Squad
1979
6.3
Flying High
1978
7.3
Taxi
1978
6.5
Fantasy Island
1978
10.0
Promise Him Anything
1975
6.5
Baretta
1975
6.3
The Great Gatsby
1974
5.2
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
1974
5.1
They Only Kill Their Masters
1972
7.5
Temperatures Rising
1972
6.4
To Find a Man
1972
7.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
5.5
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970
7.0
The Name of the Game
1968
6.8
The World of Abbott and Costello
1965
6.3
Burke's Law
1963
7.5
Marilyn
1963
6.8
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
4.9
State Fair
1962
5.7
Tender Is the Night
1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
9.0
The Tom Ewell Show
1960
4.8
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958
6.3
The Girl Can't Help It
1956
7.0
The Great American Pastime
1956
6.4
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
5.8
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
19566.3
Playwrights '56
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
7.0
The Seven Year Itch
1955
6.8
General Electric Theater
1953
10.0
Back at the Front
1952
6.2
Lost in Alaska
1952
10.0
Finders Keepers
1952
7.0
Up Front
1951
6.5
Mr. Music
1950
5.5
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950
5.3
A Life of Her Own
1950
7.3
Your Show of Shows
1950
7.0
What's My Line?
1950
6.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
7.1
Adam's Rib
1949
6.0
Lights Out
1949
10.0
Concerning a Woman of Sin
1949
5.4
Studio One
19489.0
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
1947
9.0
Desert Bandit
1941
6.0
They Knew What They Wanted
1940