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Tom Ewell

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

Born: Owensboro, Kentucky, USA, 1909-04-29

Died: 1994-09-12

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1940	They Knew What They Wanted	New Hired Hand (uncredited)	56
2	1941	Desert Bandit	Texas Ranger Ordway	0
3	1947	Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful		90
4	1949	Concerning a Woman of Sin		0
5	1949	Adam's Rib	Warren Attinger	71
6	1950	A Life of Her Own	Tom Caraway	53
7	1950	American Guerrilla in the Philippines	Jim Mitchell	55
8	1950	Mr. Music	'Cupcake' Haggerty	40
9	1951	Up Front	Willie	0
10	1952	Finders Keepers	Tiger Kipps	0
11	1952	Lost in Alaska	Nugget Joe McDermott	60
12	1952	Back at the Front	Willie	0
13	1955	The Seven Year Itch	Richard Sherman	71
14	1956	The Lieutenant Wore Skirts	Gregory Whitcomb	55
15	1956	The Great American Pastime	Bruce Hallerton	0
16	1956	The Girl Can't Help It	Tom Miller	61
17	1958	A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed	Max Rutgers	33
18	1962	Tender Is the Night	Abe North	54
19	1962	State Fair	Abel Frake	49
20	1963	Marilyn	Self ("The Seven Year Itch") (archive footage) (uncredited)	60
21	1965	The World of Abbott and Costello	Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)	63
22	1970	Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?	Billy Joe Davis	50
23	1972	To Find a Man	Dr. Hargrove	60
24	1972	They Only Kill Their Masters	Walter	53
25	1974	The Spy Who Returned from the Dead	Lubow	52
26	1974	The Great Gatsby	Mourner (uncredited)	63
27	1975	Promise Him Anything	Judge	0
28	1979	The Return of Mod Squad	Cook	50
29	1979	Tropic of Desire	Hadley Crabtree	64
30	1982	Terror at Alcatraz	Johnson	0
31	1983	Easy Money	Scrappleton	60
32	1986	Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend	Self (from The Seven Year Itch [1955]) (archive footage)	75
33	1990	Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths	(archive footage)	57
34	2016	All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone	Richard Sherman (archive footage)	77
35	2018	Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood	Self (archive footage)	60

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One	Willie Mason	50
2	1949	Lights Out		53
3	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Tom Howard	56
4	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
5	1950	Your Show of Shows		63
6	1953	General Electric Theater	John Emmet Owens	63
7	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Albert Pelham	77
8	1955	Playwrights '56		60
9	1956	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	Self	60
10	1960	The Tom Ewell Show		0
11	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
12	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
13	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
14	1963	Burke's Law	Leander Clement	60
15	1968	The Name of the Game	District Attorney Simpson	68
16	1971	Alias Smith and Jones		69
17	1972	Temperatures Rising	Harry Butler	50
18	1975	Baretta		63
19	1978	Fantasy Island	Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan	64
20	1978	Taxi	Dr. Richmond	73
21	1978	Flying High		45
22	1979	Eischied		60
23	1979	Trapper John, M.D.		65
24	1981	Best of the West	Jerome Kullens	60
25	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Josh Corbin	75