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Tom Ewell

Tom Ewell

Birthday: 1909-04-29 | Place of Birth: Owensboro, Kentucky, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1990
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

as    (archive footage)

1983
Easy Money

as    Scrappleton

1982
Terror at Alcatraz

as    Johnson

1981
Best of the West

as    Jerome Kullens

1979
The Return of Mod Squad

as    Cook

1979
Tropic of Desire

as    Hadley Crabtree

1975
Promise Him Anything

as    Judge

1974
1972
To Find a Man

as    Dr. Hargrove

1972
They Only Kill Their Masters

as    Walter

1970
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

as    Billy Joe Davis

1965
The World of Abbott and Costello

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

1962
Tender Is the Night

as    Abe North

1962
State Fair

as    Abel Frake

1958
1956
The Great American Pastime

as    Bruce Hallerton

1956
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

as    Gregory Whitcomb

1956
The Girl Can't Help It

as    Tom Miller

1955
The Seven Year Itch

as    Richard Sherman

1952
Lost in Alaska

as    Nugget Joe McDermott

1952
Finders Keepers

as    Tiger Kipps

1952
Back at the Front

as    Willie

1950
Mr. Music

as    'Cupcake' Haggerty

1950
American Guerrilla in the Philippines

as    Jim Mitchell

1950
A Life of Her Own

as    Tom Caraway

1949
Adam's Rib

as    Warren Attinger