Acting credits
56
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Tom Ewell
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 33Series: 23
TMDB ID: 43819
IMDb ID: nm0263885
Known for: Acting
Born: April 29, 1909
Died: September 12, 1994
Age: 85
Place of birth: Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1940 - 2018
Years active: 79
Average TMDB rating: 6.8
Wikidata: Q427388
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Tom Ewell.
6.0
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2018 Movie
7.2
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
as Richard Sherman (archive footage)
2016 Movie
5.7
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
as (archive footage)
1990 Movie
6.0
Easy Money
as Scrappleton
1983 Movie
Terror at Alcatraz
as Johnson
1982 Movie
6.4
Tropic of Desire
as Hadley Crabtree
1979 Movie
5.0
The Return of Mod Squad
as Cook
1979 Movie
Promise Him Anything
as Judge
1975 Movie
6.3
The Great Gatsby
as Mourner (uncredited)
1974 Movie
5.2
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
as Lubow
1974 Movie
4.9
They Only Kill Their Masters
as Walter
1972 Movie
6.0
To Find a Man
as Dr. Hargrove
1972 Movie
5.0
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
as Billy Joe Davis
1970 Movie
6.3
The World of Abbott and Costello
as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
1965 Movie
6.0
Marilyn
as archive footage
1963 Movie
4.7
State Fair
as Abel Frake
1962 Movie
5.4
Tender Is the Night
as Abe North
1962 Movie
3.3
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
as Max Rutgers
1958 Movie
6.2
The Girl Can't Help It
as Tom Miller
1956 Movie
The Great American Pastime
as Bruce Hallerton
1956 Movie
5.5
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
as Gregory Whitcomb
1956 Movie
7.1
The Seven Year Itch
as Richard Sherman
1955 Movie
Back at the Front
as Willie
1952 Movie
6.0
Lost in Alaska
as Nugget Joe McDermott
1952 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Tom Ewell.
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Josh Corbin • 1 eps
1984 Series
6.0
Best of the West
as Jerome Kullens • 22 eps
1981 Series
6.5
Trapper John, M.D.
1 eps
1979 Series
6.0
Eischied
1 eps
1979 Series
4.5
Flying High
1 eps
1978 Series
7.3
Taxi
as Dr. Richmond • 1 eps
1978 Series
6.4
Fantasy Island
as Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan • 1 eps
1978 Series
6.4
Baretta
2 eps
1975 Series
5.0
Temperatures Rising
as Harry Butler • 1 eps
1972 Series
7.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1 eps
1971 Series
6.8
The Name of the Game
as District Attorney Simpson • 1 eps
1968 Series
6.0
Burke's Law
as Leander Clement • 1 eps
1963 Series
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self • 1 eps
1962 Series
6.2
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self • 7 eps
1962 Series
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self • 1 eps
1961 Series
6.0
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self • 2 eps
1956 Series
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Albert Pelham • 1 eps
1955 Series
6.4
General Electric Theater
as John Emmet Owens • 1 eps
1953 Series
6.3
Your Show of Shows
2 eps
1950 Series
7.0
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest • 1 eps
1950 Series
5.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Tom Howard • 1 eps
1950 Series
5.8
Lights Out
1 eps
1949 Series
5.0
Studio One
as Willie Mason • 1 eps
1948 Series