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Tom Ewell

AKA: Samuel Yewell Tompkins
Birthday: 1909-04-29
Died: 1994-09-12
Birthplace: 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.

Filmography

The Seven Year Itch
Character: Richard Sherman
Finders Keepers
Character: Tiger Kipps
Adam's Rib
Character: Warren Attinger

State Fair
Character: Abel Frake
The Girl Can't Help It
Character: Tom Miller
They Only Kill Their Masters
Character: Walter

Easy Money
Character: Scrappleton
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Character: Jim Mitchell
The Great American Pastime
Character: Bruce Hallerton

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Character: Gregory Whitcomb
Mr. Music
Character: 'Cupcake' Haggerty

To Find a Man
Character: Dr. Hargrove
A Life of Her Own
Character: Tom Caraway
Up Front
Character: Willie

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Character: Billy Joe Davis
Tropic of Desire
Character: Hadley Crabtree

They Knew What They Wanted
Character: New Hired Hand (uncredited)
Desert Bandit
Character: Texas Ranger Ordway
Promise Him Anything
Character: Judge

Lost in Alaska
Character: Nugget Joe McDermott
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Character: Richard Sherman (archive footage)
The Return of Mod Squad
Character: Cook

Marilyn
Character: Self ("The Seven Year Itch") (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tender Is the Night
Character: Abe North
The World of Abbott and Costello
Character: Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)

The Great Gatsby
Character: Mourner (uncredited)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Character: Self (from The Seven Year Itch [1955]) (archive footage)

Back at the Front
Character: Willie
Terror at Alcatraz
Character: Johnson
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Character: (archive footage)

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Character: Self (archive footage)