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)