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Tom Ewell

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1909-04-29

Day of Death

1994-09-12

Place of Birth

Owensboro, Kentucky, USA

Tom Ewell

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 (35)

⭐ 5.9 Role: Self (archive footage)

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

2018
⭐ 7.2 Role: Richard Sherman (archive footage)

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

2016
⭐ 6.4 Role: (archive footage)

Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde

2015
⭐ 5.7 Role: (archive footage)

Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

1990
⭐ 6.0 Role: Scrappleton

Easy Money

1983
⭐ 10.0 Role: Johnson

Terror at Alcatraz

1982
⭐ 6.4 Role: Hadley Crabtree

Tropic of Desire

1979
⭐ 7.0 Role: Cook

The Return of Mod Squad

1979
⭐ 10.0 Role: Judge

Promise Him Anything

1975
⭐ 6.3 Role: Mourner (uncredited)

The Great Gatsby

1974
⭐ 5.2 Role: Lubow

The Spy Who Returned from the Dead

1974
⭐ 5.1 Role: Walter

They Only Kill Their Masters

1972
⭐ 6.4 Role: Dr. Hargrove

To Find a Man

1972
⭐ 5.5 Role: Billy Joe Davis

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

1970
⭐ 6.8 Role: Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)

The World of Abbott and Costello

1965