Tom Ewell, a character actor with a trademark lumpy figure and droopy, lugubrious mug, was born Samuel Yewell Tompkins on April 29, 1909, in Kentucky.
Tom Ewell
Deceased · Born: Apr 29, 1909 · Died: Sep 12, 1994
Career
2022
The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes as Richard Sherman
2016
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone as Richard Sherman (archive footage)
1990
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths as (archive footage)
1983
Easy Money as Scrappleton
1981
Best of the West as Jerome Kullens
1979
Butterflies in Heat as Hadley Crabtree
1975
Promise Him Anything as Judge
1974
The Wide World of Mystery as Lubow
The Great Gatsby as Mourner (uncredited)
1972
To Find a Man as Dr. Hargrove
They Only Kill Their Masters as Walter
1970
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came as Billy Joe Davis
1965
The World of Abbott and Costello as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
1962
State Fair as Abel Frake
Tender Is the Night as Abe North
1958
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed as Max Rutgers
1956
The Great American Pastime as Bruce Hallerton
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts as Gregory Whitcomb
The Girl Can't Help It as Tom Miller
1955
The Seven Year Itch as Richard Sherman
1952
Finders Keepers as Tiger Kipps
Lost in Alaska as Nugget Joe McDermott
1951
Up Front as Willie
1950
American Guerrilla in the Philippines as Jim Mitchell
A Life of Her Own as Tom Caraway
Mr. Music as 'Cupcake' Haggerty
1949
Adam's Rib as Warren Attinger
1941
Desert Bandit as Texas Ranger Ordway
1940
They Knew What They Wanted as New Hired Hand (uncredited)
