Acting credits
57
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Tom Ewell
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 34Series: 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: 6.64
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.
as Self (archive footage)
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018 • Movie
as Richard Sherman (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016 • Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
2015 • Movie
as (archive footage)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990 • Movie
as Scrappleton
Easy Money
1983 • Movie
as Johnson
Terror at Alcatraz
1982 • Movie
as Hadley Crabtree
Tropic of Desire
1979 • Movie
as Cook
The Return of Mod Squad
1979 • Movie
as Judge
Promise Him Anything
1975 • Movie
as Mourner (uncredited)
The Great Gatsby
1974 • Movie
as Lubow
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
1974 • Movie
as Walter
They Only Kill Their Masters
1972 • Movie
as Dr. Hargrove
To Find a Man
1972 • Movie
as Billy Joe Davis
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970 • Movie
as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
The World of Abbott and Costello
1965 • Movie
as archive footage
Marilyn
1963 • Movie
as Abel Frake
State Fair
1962 • Movie
as Abe North
Tender Is the Night
1962 • Movie
as Max Rutgers
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958 • Movie
as Tom Miller
The Girl Can't Help It
1956 • Movie
as Bruce Hallerton
The Great American Pastime
1956 • Movie
as Gregory Whitcomb
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
1956 • Movie
as Richard Sherman
The Seven Year Itch
1955 • Movie
as Willie
Back at the Front
1952 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Tom Ewell.
as Josh Corbin • 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
1984 • Series
as Jerome Kullens • 22 eps
Best of the West
1981 • Series
1 eps
Trapper John, M.D.
1979 • Series
1 eps
Eischied
1979 • Series
1 eps
Flying High
1978 • Series
as Dr. Richmond • 1 eps
Taxi
1978 • Series
as Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan • 1 eps
Fantasy Island
1978 • Series
2 eps
Baretta
1975 • Series
as Harry Butler • 1 eps
Temperatures Rising
1972 • Series
1 eps
Alias Smith and Jones
1971 • Series
as District Attorney Simpson • 1 eps
The Name of the Game
1968 • Series
as Leander Clement • 1 eps
Burke's Law
1963 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 • Series
as Self • 7 eps
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956 • Series
as Albert Pelham • 1 eps
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 • Series
as John Emmet Owens • 1 eps
General Electric Theater
1953 • Series
2 eps
Your Show of Shows
1950 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
What's My Line?
1950 • Series
as Tom Howard • 1 eps
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 • Series
1 eps
Lights Out
1949 • Series
as Willie Mason • 1 eps
Studio One
1948 • Series