Tom Ewell

Born: 1909-04-29, Owensboro, Kentucky, USA

Died: 1994-09-12

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

• Murder, She Wrote (1984)
• Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)
• Studio One (1948)
• Baretta (1975)
• Burke's Law (1963)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
• Trapper John, M.D. (1979)
• Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
• Your Show of Shows (1950)
• Tropic of Desire (1979)
• The Tom Ewell Show (1960)
• The Seven Year Itch (1955)
• Adam's Rib (1949)
• The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
• Tender Is the Night (1962)
• American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)
• All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016)
• Terror at Alcatraz (1982)
• Lost in Alaska (1952)
• They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
• The Great American Pastime (1956)
• Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990)
• A Life of Her Own (1950)
• The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)
• The World of Abbott and Costello (1965)
• Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)
• The Return of Mod Squad (1979)
• A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958)
• Back at the Front (1952)
• They Knew What They Wanted (1940)