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Tom Ewell
Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
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,…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2018
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2016
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Movie Richard Sherman (archive footage)
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2015
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1990
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Movie (archive footage)
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1984
Murder, She Wrote
TV show Josh Corbin
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1983
Easy Money
Movie Scrappleton
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1982
Terror at Alcatraz
Movie Johnson
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1981
Best of the West
TV show Jerome Kullens
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1979
Trapper John, M.D.
TV show
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1979
Eischied
TV show
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1979
Tropic of Desire
Movie Hadley Crabtree
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1979
The Return of Mod Squad
Movie Cook
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1978
Flying High
TV show
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1978
Taxi
TV show Dr. Richmond
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1978
Fantasy Island
TV show Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
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1975
Promise Him Anything
Movie Judge
More credits
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1975
Baretta
TV show
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1974
The Great Gatsby
Movie Mourner (uncredited)
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1974
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
Movie Lubow
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1972
They Only Kill Their Masters
Movie Walter
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1972
Temperatures Rising
TV show Harry Butler
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1972
To Find a Man
Movie Dr. Hargrove
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1971
Alias Smith and Jones
TV show
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1970
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Movie Billy Joe Davis
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1968
The Name of the Game
TV show District Attorney Simpson
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1965
The World of Abbott and Costello
Movie Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
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1963
Burke's Law
TV show Leander Clement
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1963
Marilyn
Movie archive footage
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1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV show Self
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1962
The Merv Griffin Show
TV show Self
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1962
State Fair
Movie Abel Frake
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1962
Tender Is the Night
Movie Abe North
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1961
The Mike Douglas Show
TV show Self
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1960
The Tom Ewell Show
TV show
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1958
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Movie Max Rutgers
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1956
The Girl Can't Help It
Movie Tom Miller
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1956
The Great American Pastime
Movie Bruce Hallerton
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1956
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV show Self
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1956
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Movie Gregory Whitcomb
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1955
Playwrights '56
TV show
