Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
April 29, 1909
Died
September 12, 1994 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Also Known As
- Samuel Yewell Tompkins
- Tommy Ewell
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.
Known For
Acting
6.0
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
7.3
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
6.0
Easy Money
1983
6.5
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
7.2
Taxi
1978
6.4
Fantasy Island
1978
6.4
Baretta
1975
6.3
The Great Gatsby
1974
4.9
They Only Kill Their Masters
1972
7.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
6.8
The Name of the Game
1968
6.0
Burke's Law
1963
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
4.7
State Fair
1962
6.2
The Girl Can't Help It
1956
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
7.1
The Seven Year Itch
1955
6.0
Lost in Alaska
1952
5.4
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950
5.1
A Life of Her Own
1950
7.0
What's My Line?
1950
7.1
Adam's Rib
1949
5.0
Studio One
1948