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Tom Ewell

Actor

Tom Ewell

Born April 29, 1909 in Owensboro, Kentucky, USADied September 12, 199429 films

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.

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Adam's Rib posterFirst watchAdam's Rib19497.1as Warren AttingerA woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case…View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
The Seven Year Itch poster7.0The Seven Year Itch1955The Great Gatsby poster6.3The Great Gatsby1974Easy Money poster6.0Easy Money1983The Girl Can't Help It poster6.3The Girl Can't Help It1956

Filmography

29 films as actor
  1. 1983Easy MoneyScrappleton
  2. 1982Terror at AlcatrazJohnson
  3. 1979Tropic of DesireHadley Crabtree
  4. 1979The Return of Mod SquadCook
  5. 1975Promise Him AnythingJudge
  6. 1974The Great GatsbyMourner (uncredited)
  7. 1974The Spy Who Returned from the DeadLubow
  8. 1972They Only Kill Their MastersWalter
  9. 1972To Find a ManDr. Hargrove
  10. 1970Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?Billy Joe Davis
  11. 1962State FairAbel Frake
  12. 1962Tender Is the NightAbe North
  13. 1958A Nice Little Bank That Should Be RobbedMax Rutgers
  14. 1956The Girl Can't Help ItTom Miller
  15. 1956The Great American PastimeBruce Hallerton
  16. 1956The Lieutenant Wore SkirtsGregory Whitcomb
  17. 1955The Seven Year ItchRichard Sherman
  18. 1952Back at the FrontWillie
  19. 1952Lost in AlaskaNugget Joe McDermott
  20. 1952Finders KeepersTiger Kipps
  21. 1951Up FrontWillie
  22. 1950Mr. Music'Cupcake' Haggerty
  23. 1950American Guerrilla in the PhilippinesJim Mitchell
  24. 1950A Life of Her OwnTom Caraway
  25. 1949Adam's RibWarren Attinger
  26. 1949Concerning a Woman of Sin
  27. 1947Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
  28. 1941Desert BanditTexas Ranger Ordway
  29. 1940They Knew What They WantedNew Hired Hand (uncredited)