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Tom Ewell

Acting

  • Born
  • April 29, 1909
  • Died
  • September 12, 1994
  • 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.

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson poster
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Murder, She Wrote poster
Murder, She Wrote
1984
The Mike Douglas Show poster
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Fantasy Island poster
Fantasy Island
1978
The Merv Griffin Show poster
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Taxi poster
Taxi
1978
Robert Montgomery Presents poster
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
What's My Line? poster
What's My Line?
1950
Studio One poster
Studio One
1948
Burke's Law poster
Burke's Law
1963
Baretta poster
Baretta
1975
Lights Out poster
Lights Out
1949
The Name of the Game poster
The Name of the Game
1968
Trapper John, M.D. poster
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
Alfred Hitchcock Presents poster
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Alias Smith and Jones poster
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Your Show of Shows poster
Your Show of Shows
1950
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show poster
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
Temperatures Rising poster
Temperatures Rising
1972
Tropic of Desire poster
Tropic of Desire
1979
The Great Gatsby poster
The Great Gatsby
1974
Playwrights '56
1955
Flying High poster
Flying High
1978
Best of the West poster
Best of the West
1981
The Seven Year Itch poster
The Seven Year Itch
1955
Eischied poster
Eischied
1979
The Tom Ewell Show poster
The Tom Ewell Show
1960
Adam's Rib poster
Adam's Rib
1949
General Electric Theater poster
General Electric Theater
1953
Finders Keepers poster
Finders Keepers
1952
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood poster
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
The Girl Can't Help It poster
The Girl Can't Help It
1956
Easy Money poster
Easy Money
1983
Tender Is the Night poster
Tender Is the Night
1962
Mr. Music poster
Mr. Music
1950
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone poster
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
American Guerrilla in the Philippines poster
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950
Lost in Alaska poster
Lost in Alaska
1952
The Great American Pastime poster
The Great American Pastime
1956
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde poster
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
2015
They Only Kill Their Masters poster
They Only Kill Their Masters
1972
State Fair poster
State Fair
1962
They Knew What They Wanted poster
They Knew What They Wanted
1940
The Return of Mod Squad poster
The Return of Mod Squad
1979
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed poster
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths poster
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? poster
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970
Up Front poster
Up Front
1951
A Life of Her Own poster
A Life of Her Own
1950
Marilyn poster
Marilyn
1963
Desert Bandit poster
Desert Bandit
1941
To Find a Man poster
To Find a Man
1972
Terror at Alcatraz poster
Terror at Alcatraz
1982
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
1947
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts poster
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
1956
Back at the Front poster
Back at the Front
1952
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead poster
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
1974
The World of Abbott and Costello poster
The World of Abbott and Costello
1965
Promise Him Anything poster
Promise Him Anything
1975
Concerning a Woman of Sin poster
Concerning a Woman of Sin
1949