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Tom Ewell
Tom Ewell

Tom Ewell

ActingBorn April 29, 1909Died September 12, 1994 (age 85)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.

Filmography

2018Movie
2016Movie
2015Movie
1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Josh Corbin

TV
1983
Easy Money

as Scrappleton

Movie
1982Movie
1981
Best of the West

as Jerome Kullens

TV
1979TV
1979
Tropic of Desire

as Hadley Crabtree

Movie
1979Movie
1978
Taxi

as Dr. Richmond

TV
1978
Fantasy Island

as Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan

TV
1975Movie
1975TV
1974
The Great Gatsby

as Mourner (uncredited)

Movie
1972
Temperatures Rising

as Harry Butler

TV
1972
To Find a Man

as Dr. Hargrove

Movie
1970Movie
1968
The Name of the Game

as District Attorney Simpson

TV
1965
The World of Abbott and Costello

as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)

Movie
1963
Burke's Law

as Leander Clement

TV
1963
Marilyn

as archive footage

Movie
1962
State Fair

as Abel Frake

Movie
1962Movie
1956Movie
1956
The Great American Pastime

as Bruce Hallerton

Movie
1956
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

as Gregory Whitcomb

Movie
1955TV
1955
The Seven Year Itch

as Richard Sherman

Movie
1953
General Electric Theater

as John Emmet Owens

TV
1952Movie
1952
Lost in Alaska

as Nugget Joe McDermott

Movie
1952
Finders Keepers

as Tiger Kipps

Movie
1951
Up Front

as Willie

Movie
1950
Mr. Music

as 'Cupcake' Haggerty

Movie
1950
A Life of Her Own

as Tom Caraway

Movie
1950TV
1950TV
1949
Adam's Rib

as Warren Attinger

Movie
1948
Studio One

as Willie Mason

TV
1941
Desert Bandit

as Texas Ranger Ordway

Movie
1940
They Knew What They Wanted

as New Hired Hand (uncredited)

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayApril 29, 1909
Day of DeathSeptember 12, 1994
Place of BirthOwensboro, Kentucky, USA
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