Tom Ewell
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1909-04-29 – 1994-09-12
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.
Known for
The Seven Year Itch
1955Richard Sherman
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990(archive footage)
Finders Keepers
1952Tiger Kipps
Adam's Rib
1949Warren Attinger
State Fair
1962Abel Frake
The Girl Can't Help It
1956Tom Miller
They Only Kill Their Masters
1972Walter
Easy Money
1983Scrappleton
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950Jim Mitchell
The Great American Pastime
1956Bruce Hallerton
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
1956Gregory Whitcomb
Mr. Music
1950'Cupcake' Haggerty
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958Max Rutgers
To Find a Man
1972Dr. Hargrove
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018Self (archive footage)
A Life of Her Own
1950Tom Caraway
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970Billy Joe Davis
Up Front
1951Willie
Back at the Front
1952Willie