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Tom Ewell

Born April 29, 1909
Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Died Sept. 12, 1994, aged 85

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 …

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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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The Seven Year Itch (1955)

Richard Sherman

The Great Gatsby (1974)

Mourner (uncredited)

Murder, She Wrote (1984)

Josh Corbin

Adam's Rib (1949)

Warren Attinger

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Albert Pelham

Taxi (1978)

Dr. Richmond

Easy Money (1983)

Scrappleton

Fantasy Island (1978)

Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan

The Girl Can't Help It (1956)

Tom Miller

Baretta (1975)

Billy Truman

Alias Smith and Jones (1971)

Lost in Alaska (1952)

Nugget Joe McDermott

Trapper John, M.D. (1979)

American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)

Jim Mitchell

A Life of Her Own (1950)

Tom Caraway

State Fair (1962)

Abel Frake

They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)

Walter

Studio One (1948)

Willie Mason

The Name of the Game (1968)

District Attorney Simpson

Burke's Law (1963)

Leander Clement

Tender Is the Night (1962)

Abe North

They Knew What They Wanted (1940)

New Hired Hand (uncredited)

Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)

Tom Howard

General Electric Theater (1953)

John Emmet Owens

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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)

Billy Joe Davis

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)

Gregory Whitcomb

Best of the West (1981)

Jerome Kullens

Lights Out (1949)

To Find a Man (1972)

Dr. Hargrove

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958)

Max Rutgers

Playwrights '56 (1955)

Tropic of Desire (1979)

Hadley Crabtree

Your Show of Shows (1950)

Eischied (1979)

Flying High (1978)

Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful (1947)

Marilyn (1963)

archive footage

Mr. Music (1950)

'Cupcake' Haggerty

Temperatures Rising (1972)

Harry Butler

The Great American Pastime (1956)

Bruce Hallerton

The Return of Mod Squad (1979)

Cook

The Spy Who Returned from the Dead (1974)

Lubow

Back at the Front (1952)

Willie

Concerning a Woman of Sin (1949)

Desert Bandit (1941)

Texas Ranger Ordway

Finders Keepers (1952)

Tiger Kipps

Promise Him Anything (1975)

Judge

Terror at Alcatraz (1982)

Johnson

The Tom Ewell Show (1960)

Up Front (1951)

Willie

Appearances (7)

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)

Self (archive footage)

What's My Line? (1950)

Self

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016)

Richard Sherman (archive footage)

The World of Abbott and Costello (1965)

Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)

Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde (2015)

Self (archive footage)

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956)

Self

Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990)

Self