Tom Ewell
Personal Info
Acting
April 28, 1909 (85 years old)
September 11, 1994
Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Also Known As
Samuel Yewell Tompkins
Tommy Ewell
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.
Known For
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
as Self (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
as Richard Sherman (archive footage)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990
as (archive footage)
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Josh Corbin
Easy Money
1983
as Scrappleton
Terror at Alcatraz
1982
as Johnson
Best of the West
1981
as Jerome Kullens
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
Eischied
1979
Tropic of Desire
1979
as Hadley Crabtree
The Return of Mod Squad
1979
as Cook
Flying High
1978
Taxi
1978
as Dr. Richmond
Fantasy Island
1978
as Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
Promise Him Anything
1975
as Judge
Baretta
1975
The Great Gatsby
1974
as Mourner (uncredited)
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
1974
as Lubow
They Only Kill Their Masters
1972
as Walter
To Find a Man
1972
as Dr. Hargrove