Tom Ewell
Date of birth: 1909-04-29
Place of birth: Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Known for: Acting
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.
Movie Credits
The Seven Year Itch
1955-06-03
When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an over
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990-01-01
Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Holl
Finders Keepers
1952-01-01
A curious toddler creates trouble when he finds bank robbers' loot
Adam's Rib
1949-11-18
A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam
State Fair
1962-03-09
Texan farmers the Frake family head for the Texas State Fair in Dallas. The parents are focused on w
The Girl Can't Help It
1956-12-22
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star withi
They Only Kill Their Masters
1972-11-22
An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by th
Easy Money
1983-08-19
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhea
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950-11-08
American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fi
The Great American Pastime
1956-11-28
Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attra
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
1956-01-11
TV writer Greg Whitcomb did his military service heroically but now has settled into everyday life w
Mr. Music
1950-12-08
A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958-12-01
Two bunglers (Tom Ewell, Mickey Rooney) rob a bank and buy a racehorse, then try to rob another bank
To Find a Man
1972-01-20
A boarding-school girl asks the boy next door for help getting an abortion.
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018-07-27
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir
A Life of Her Own
1950-09-01
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modelin
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970-09-11
War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a nearby So
Up Front
1951-03-05
Military comedy set during WWII, inspired by Bill Mauldin's popular newspaper cartoons of soldiers "
Back at the Front
1952-10-01
Further misadventures of comic soldiers Willie and Joe, now in Japan.
Terror at Alcatraz
1982-07-04
Tom and Dick Smothers play Bones Howard and Ryan Fitzgerald, a TV cameraman and intrepid reporter, r
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
1947-11-14
Patsy Kelly is a baby sitter who has no end of problems dealing with the kids in her charge. When Ha
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
1974-01-08
Spy spoof about a double agent involved in a phony death plot. Episode of the Wide World of Mystery.
Tropic of Desire
1979-06-15
A male hustler drifts into Key West, where he becomes involved in a series of steamy interludes with
They Knew What They Wanted
1940-10-19
While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his
Desert Bandit
1941-05-24
Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry certainly deserved his designation as "The Cowboy Cagney"
Promise Him Anything
1975-05-14
A young bachelor using a dating service picks a woman whose information card read "Anything goes." W
Lost in Alaska
1952-08-13
After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mis
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016-11-04
Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maver
The Return of Mod Squad
1979-05-18
Pete, Linc and Julie are called back to the force when a series of sniper attacks are made on their
Tender Is the Night
1962-01-19
1920s, the French Riviera: wealthy expatriate Nicole Warren's mental illness strains her marriage to
The World of Abbott and Costello
1965-04-01
A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Na
Concerning a Woman of Sin
1949-03-24
An unscrupulous agent is able to sell a story by an unknown authoress to a Hollywood studio chief fo
The Great Gatsby
1974-03-27
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the myste