Cast
Tom Ewell
Acting
Cast
Tom Ewell
Known for
Acting
Born
1909-04-29
From
Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Died
1994-09-12
Also known as Samuel Yewell Tompkins, Tommy Ewell
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.
The Seven Year Itch
as Richard Sherman
Tropic of Desire
as Hadley Crabtree
The Great Gatsby
as Mourner (uncredited)
State Fair
as Abel Frake
Adam's Rib
as Warren Attinger
Finders Keepers
as Tiger Kipps
Easy Money
as Scrappleton
The Girl Can't Help It
as Tom Miller
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
as Richard Sherman (archive footage)
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
Tender Is the Night
as Abe North
They Only Kill Their Masters
as Walter
Marilyn
as archive footage
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
as Jim Mitchell
A Life of Her Own
as Tom Caraway
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
as (archive footage)
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
as Billy Joe Davis
The Return of Mod Squad
as Cook
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
as Max Rutgers
Terror at Alcatraz
as Johnson
Mr. Music
as 'Cupcake' Haggerty
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
as Self (archive footage)
Back at the Front
as Willie
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
as Gregory Whitcomb
Lost in Alaska
as Nugget Joe McDermott
They Knew What They Wanted
as New Hired Hand (uncredited)
Desert Bandit
as Texas Ranger Ordway
The Great American Pastime
as Bruce Hallerton
To Find a Man
as Dr. Hargrove
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
as Lubow
The World of Abbott and Costello
as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
Up Front
as Willie
Promise Him Anything
as Judge
Concerning a Woman of Sin
