Tom Ewell
Acting
- Born:
- 1909-04-29
- Died:
- 1994-09-12
- Place of birth:
- 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
Filmography
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Murder, She Wrote
Easy Money
Terror at Alcatraz
Best of the West
Trapper John, M.D.
Eischied
Tropic of Desire
The Return of Mod Squad
Flying High
Taxi
Fantasy Island
Promise Him Anything
Baretta
The Great Gatsby
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
They Only Kill Their Masters
Temperatures Rising
To Find a Man
Alias Smith and Jones
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
The Name of the Game
The World of Abbott and Costello
Burke's Law
Marilyn
The Merv Griffin Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
State Fair
Tender Is the Night
The Mike Douglas Show
The Tom Ewell Show
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
The Girl Can't Help It
The Great American Pastime
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Tony Awards
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Playwrights '56
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Seven Year Itch
General Electric Theater
Back at the Front
Lost in Alaska
Finders Keepers
Up Front
Mr. Music
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
A Life of Her Own
Your Show of Shows
What's My Line?
Robert Montgomery Presents
Adam's Rib
Lights Out
Concerning a Woman of Sin
Studio One
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
Desert Bandit