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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

60

Gender

Male

Birthday

1909-04-29

Day of Death

1994-09-12 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

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

Acting

The Seven Year Itch

1955

The Seven Year Itch

as

Richard Sherman

Finders Keepers

1952

Finders Keepers

as

Tiger Kipps

Adam's Rib

1949

Adam's Rib

as

Warren Attinger

State Fair

1962

State Fair

as

Abel Frake

The Girl Can't Help It

1956

The Girl Can't Help It

as

Tom Miller

Easy Money

1983

Easy Money

as

Scrappleton

The Great American Pastime

1956

The Great American Pastime

as

Bruce Hallerton

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

1956

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

as

Gregory Whitcomb

Mr. Music

1950

Mr. Music

as

'Cupcake' Haggerty

To Find a Man

1972

To Find a Man

as

Dr. Hargrove

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

2018

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

as

Self (archive footage)

A Life of Her Own

1950

A Life of Her Own

as

Tom Caraway

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

1986

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

as

Self (from The Seven Year Itch [1955]) (archive footage)

Up Front

1951

Up Front

as

Willie

Back at the Front

1952

Back at the Front

as

Willie

Terror at Alcatraz

1982

Terror at Alcatraz

as

Johnson

Tropic of Desire

1979

Tropic of Desire

as

Hadley Crabtree

They Knew What They Wanted

1940

They Knew What They Wanted

as

New Hired Hand (uncredited)

Desert Bandit

1941

Desert Bandit

as

Texas Ranger Ordway

Lost in Alaska

1952

Lost in Alaska

as

Nugget Joe McDermott

Marilyn

1963

Marilyn

as

Self ("The Seven Year Itch") (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tender Is the Night

1962

Tender Is the Night

as

Abe North

The World of Abbott and Costello

1965

The World of Abbott and Costello

as

Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)

The Great Gatsby

1974

The Great Gatsby

as

Mourner (uncredited)

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote

as

Josh Corbin

Burke's Law

Burke's Law

as

Leander Clement

Best of the West

Best of the West

as

Jerome Kullens

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater

as

John Emmet Owens

Taxi

Taxi

as

Dr. Richmond

Studio One

Studio One

as

Willie Mason

Temperatures Rising

Temperatures Rising

as

Harry Butler

What's My Line?

What's My Line?

as

Self - Mystery Guest

The Name of the Game

The Name of the Game

as

District Attorney Simpson

Fantasy Island

Fantasy Island

as

Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan

Production

Crew

Directing