Tom Ewell

Actor Apr 29 (died age 85) Owensboro, Kentucky, USA 1940–2018 (78 year career)

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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.

Known For

Film

The Seven Year Itch

Richard Sherman

Film

Adam's Rib

Warren Attinger

Film

The Great Gatsby

Mourner (uncredited)

Film

Easy Money

Scrappleton

Film

The Girl Can't Help It

Tom Miller

Film

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

Film

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

Richard Sherman (archive footage)

Film

Lost in Alaska

Nugget Joe McDermott

Filmography

Acting (59)

Movies (34)

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

2018

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

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

2016

as Richard Sherman (archive footage)

7.6

Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

as (archive footage)

Easy Money

as Scrappleton

Terror at Alcatraz

as Johnson

Tropic of Desire

1979

as Hadley Crabtree

6.4

The Return of Mod Squad

1979

as Cook

5.0

Promise Him Anything

1975

as Judge

The Great Gatsby

1974

as Mourner (uncredited)

6.3

The Spy Who Returned from the Dead

1974

as Lubow

5.2

They Only Kill Their Masters

as Walter

To Find a Man

as Dr. Hargrove

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

1970

as Billy Joe Davis

5.0

The World of Abbott and Costello

1965

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

Marilyn

as archive footage

Tender Is the Night

as Abe North

State Fair

as Abel Frake

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed

1958

as Max Rutgers

3.3

The Girl Can't Help It

1956

as Tom Miller

6.2

The Great American Pastime

1956

as Bruce Hallerton

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

as Gregory Whitcomb

The Seven Year Itch

as Richard Sherman

Back at the Front

as Willie

Finders Keepers

1952

as Tiger Kipps

Lost in Alaska

1952

as Nugget Joe McDermott

6.0

Up Front

1951

as Willie

Mr. Music

1950

as 'Cupcake' Haggerty

4.0

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

as Jim Mitchell

A Life of Her Own

as Tom Caraway

Concerning a Woman of Sin

1949

Adam's Rib

1949

as Warren Attinger

7.1

Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful

1947

9.0

Desert Bandit

1941

as Texas Ranger Ordway

They Knew What They Wanted

1940

as New Hired Hand (uncredited)

5.8

Television (25)

Murder, She Wrote

as Josh Corbin

Best of the West

as Jerome Kullens

Trapper John, M.D.

Eischied

Fantasy Island

as Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan

Taxi

as Dr. Richmond

Flying High

Baretta

Temperatures Rising

as Harry Butler

Alias Smith and Jones

1971

7.0

The Name of the Game

1968

as District Attorney Simpson

6.8

Burke's Law

1963

as Leander Clement

6.0

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.5

The Merv Griffin Show

1962

as Self

6.2

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

as Self

5.4

The Tom Ewell Show

1960

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

1956

as Self

6.0

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Albert Pelham

Playwrights '56

General Electric Theater

1953

as John Emmet Owens

6.4

Robert Montgomery Presents

1950

as Tom Howard

5.6

What's My Line?

1950

as Self - Mystery Guest

Your Show of Shows

Lights Out

Studio One

as Willie Mason