Personal Info
Birthday
April 29, 1909
Place of Birth
Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Known For
Acting
Tom 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.
Acting Filmography (57)
5.9
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Movie2018
7.4
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Movie2016
6.4
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
Movie2015
5.7
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Movie1990
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
TV Series1984
6.0
Easy Money
Movie1983
No Backdrop
10.0
Terror at Alcatraz
Movie1982
6.8
Best of the West
TV Series1981
6.6
Trapper John, M.D.
TV Series1979
7.0
Eischied
TV Series1979
6.4
Tropic of Desire
Movie1979
No Backdrop
7.0
The Return of Mod Squad
Movie1979
6.3
Flying High
TV Series1978
7.3
Taxi
TV Series1978
6.5
Fantasy Island
TV Series1978
No Backdrop
10.0
Promise Him Anything
Movie1975
6.5
Baretta
TV Series1975
6.3
The Great Gatsby
Movie1974
No Backdrop
5.2
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
Movie1974
5.1
They Only Kill Their Masters
Movie1972
7.5
Temperatures Rising
TV Series1972
No Backdrop
6.4
To Find a Man
Movie1972
7.0
Alias Smith and Jones
TV Series1971
5.5
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Movie1970
7.0
The Name of the Game
TV Series1968
6.8
The World of Abbott and Costello
Movie1965
6.3
Burke's Law
TV Series1963
7.5
Marilyn
Movie1963
No Backdrop
6.6
The Merv Griffin Show
TV Series1962
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV Series1962
4.8
State Fair
Movie1962
5.7
Tender Is the Night
Movie1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
TV Series1961
4.8
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Movie1958
6.3
The Girl Can't Help It
Movie1956
7.0
The Great American Pastime
Movie1956
6.4
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV Series1956
5.8
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Movie1956
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV Series1955
7.0
The Seven Year Itch
Movie1955
6.8
General Electric Theater
TV Series1953
10.0
Back at the Front
Movie1952
6.2
Lost in Alaska
Movie1952
10.0
Finders Keepers
Movie1952
7.0
Up Front
Movie1951
6.5
Mr. Music
Movie1950
5.5
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Movie1950
5.3
A Life of Her Own
Movie1950
7.3
Your Show of Shows
TV Series1950
7.0
What's My Line?
TV Series1950
6.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV Series1950
7.1
Adam's Rib
Movie1949
No Backdrop
6.0
Lights Out
TV Series1949
No Backdrop
10.0
Concerning a Woman of Sin
Movie1949
5.4
Studio One
TV Series1948
9.0
Desert Bandit
Movie1941
6.0
They Knew What They Wanted
Movie1940