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Tom Ewell

Actor
Born April 29, 1909Died September 12, 1994 (85 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Back in the Saddle
  • Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

Known For

  • The Seven Year Itch
  • Adam's Rib
  • The Girl Can't Help It
  • Easy Money
  • The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes
  • Lost in Alaska
  • A Life of Her Own
  • American Guerrilla in the Philippines
  • The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
  • State Fair
  • Tender Is the Night
  • They Only Kill Their Masters
  • Baretta
  • Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came
  • To Find a Man

Filmography

2022
Becoming Marilyn · as Richard Sherman
2022
2016
2016
2013
1990
1986
Butterflies in Heat · as Hadley Crabtree
1984
Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Josh Corbin
1983
Easy Money · as Scrappleton
1981
Best of the West (TV Series) · as Jerome Kullens
1979
Trapper John, M.D. (TV Series)
1979
Eischied (TV Series)
1979
1978
Taxi (TV Series) · as Dr. Richmond
1978
Flying High (TV Series)
1977
Fantasy Island (TV Series) · as Burt 'fingers' Lonegan
1975
Baretta (TV Series)
1974
The Great Gatsby · as Mourner (uncredited)
1973
Wide World of Mystery (TV Series) · as Lebow
1972
1972
Temperatures Rising (TV Series) · as Harry Butler
1972
To Find a Man · as Dr. Hargrove
1971
1970
1969
The Governor & J.J. (TV Series) · as Uncle Charley
1968
The Name of the Game (TV Series) · as District Attorney Simpson
1965
The World of Abbott and Costello · as Nugget Joe Mcdermott In Lost In Alaska (archive Footage)
1963
Burke's Law (TV Series) · as Leander Clement
1962
The Virginian (TV Series) · as Hoy Valentine
1962
State Fair · as Abel Frake
1962
Tender Is the Night · as Abe North
1961
The Dick Powell Show (TV Series) · as Congressman Albert Higgins
1958
1957
Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Hector Heatherton
1956
The Girl Can't Help It · as Tom Miller
1956
The Great American Pastime · as Bruce Hallerton
1956
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts · as Gregory Whitcomb
1955
Alcoa Hour (TV Series) · as Earl Carleton
1955
Playwrights '56 (TV Series)
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) · as Albert Pelham
1955
The Seven Year Itch · as Richard Sherman
1953
The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) · as Barney Henderson
1953
General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as John Emmet Owens
1952
Back at the Front · as Willie
1952
Lost in Alaska · as Nugget Joe Mcdermott
1951
Search for Tomorrow (TV Series) · as Sheriff Bill Lang (1972)
1951
Up Front · as Willie
1950
Mr. Music · as 'cupcake' Haggerty
1950
1950
Danger (TV Series) · as Cast
1950
A Life of Her Own · as Tom Caraway
1950
Your Show of Shows (TV Series)
1950
1949
Adam's Rib · as Warren Attinger
1949
The Football Fan · as Tom - The Football Fan
1948
Studio One (TV Series) · as Willie Mason
1948
Actors Studio (TV Series) · as Cast
1947
Kraft Television Theatre (TV Series) · as Stephen Brewster
1946
Lights Out (TV Series)
1941
Back in the Saddle · as Fight Spectator
1940
They Knew What They Wanted · as New Hired Hand (uncredited)

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