--- name: "Tom Ewell" canonical: "https://film.one/person/tom-ewell" fi1m_id: "tom-ewell" imdb_id: "nm0263885" tmdb_id: 43819 wikidata_id: "Q427388" roles: ["Actor"] born: "29 April 1909" died: "12 September 1994" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-25T04:37:04.713697+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Tom Ewell ## Identity Tom Ewell - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tom-ewell - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** tom-ewell - **IMDb ID:** nm0263885 - **TMDB ID:** 43819 - **Wikidata ID:** Q427388 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ewell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q427388, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0263885/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43819 Actor. Born 29 April 1909 in Owensboro, Kentucky, USA. Died 12 September 1994. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 29 April 1909, Owensboro, Kentucky, USA - **Died:** 12 September 1994 - **Also known as:** Samuel Yewell Tompkins, Tommy Ewell - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ewell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q427388, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0263885/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43819 ## Streaming the US now - **Tubi:** [*Adam's Rib*](https://film.one/film/adams-rib.md) (82) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Tom Ewell (born Samuel Yewell Tompkins) was an American stage, film and television actor. He was born on 29 April 1909 in Owensboro, Kentucky, and died on 12 September 1994 in Woodland Hills, California. He made his Broadway debut in 1934 and his film debut in 1940. His screen career was interrupted by service in the United States Navy during the Second World War. He gained attention for his performance as Warren Attinger in the 1949 film *Adam's Rib*. Ewell originated the role of Richard Sherman on Broadway in *The Seven Year Itch* (1952–1954) and reprised it in the 1955 film adaptation. He appeared in other films including *The Girl Can't Help It* (1956) and *The Great Gatsby* (1974), and in television series such as *Taxi* (1979) and *Murder, She Wrote* (1984). He won a Tony Award for his stage performance in *The Seven Year Itch*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, latimes.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Adam's Rib* (1949), Fi1m 82, as Warren Attinger — [page](https://film.one/film/adams-rib.md) ## Complete filmography (50) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone* (2016), as Richard Sherman (archive footage) - *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), series, as Josh Corbin - *Easy Money* (1983), as Scrappleton - *Terror at Alcatraz* (1982), as Johnson - *Best of the West* (1981), series, as Jerome Kullens - *Trapper John, M.D.* (1979), series, Actor - *Eischied* (1979), series, Actor - *Tropic of Desire* (1979), as Hadley Crabtree - *The Return of Mod Squad* (1979), as Cook - *Flying High* (1978), series, Actor - *Taxi* (1978), series, as Dr. Richmond — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/taxi.md) - *Fantasy Island* (1978), series, as Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan - *Promise Him Anything* (1975), as Judge - *Baretta* (1975), series, as Billy Truman - *The Great Gatsby* (1974), as Mourner (uncredited) - *The Spy Who Returned from the Dead* (1974), as Lubow - *They Only Kill Their Masters* (1972), as Walter - *Temperatures Rising* (1972), series, as Harry Butler - *To Find a Man* (1972), as Dr. Hargrove - *Alias Smith and Jones* (1971), series, Actor - *Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?* (1970), as Billy Joe Davis - *The Name of the Game* (1968), series, as District Attorney Simpson - *The World of Abbott and Costello* (1965), as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage) - *Burke's Law* (1963), series, as Leander Clement - *State Fair* (1962), as Abel Frake - *Tender Is the Night* (1962), as Abe North - *The Tom Ewell Show* (1960), series, Actor - *A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed* (1958), as Max Rutgers - *The Girl Can't Help It* (1956), as Tom Miller - *The Great American Pastime* (1956), as Bruce Hallerton - *The Lieutenant Wore Skirts* (1956), as Gregory Whitcomb - *Playwrights '56* (1955), series, Actor - *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as Albert Pelham - *The Seven Year Itch* (1955), as Richard Sherman - *General Electric Theater* (1953), series, as John Emmet Owens - *Back at the Front* (1952), as Willie - *Lost in Alaska* (1952), as Nugget Joe McDermott - *Finders Keepers* (1952), as Tiger Kipps - *Up Front* (1951), as Willie - *Mr. Music* (1950), as 'Cupcake' Haggerty - *American Guerrilla in the Philippines* (1950), as Jim Mitchell - *A Life of Her Own* (1950), as Tom Caraway - *Your Show of Shows* (1950), series, Actor - *Robert Montgomery Presents* (1950), series, as Tom Howard - *Adam's Rib* (1949), as Warren Attinger — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/adams-rib.md) - *Concerning a Woman of Sin* (1949), Actor - *Studio One* (1948), series, as Willie Mason - *Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful* (1947), Actor - *Desert Bandit* (1941), as Texas Ranger Ordway - *They Knew What They Wanted* (1940), as New Hired Hand (uncredited) ## Gallery - ![Tom Ewell](https://film.one/media/person/3867452/gallery-46a21f288a7f.jpg) Tom Ewell — Friedman-Abeles, New York. Stamp is partial, but the photographer did many New York theater photos; we have quite a few here at Commons., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Tom_Ewell_1958.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Photo of Marilyn Monroe in Seven Year Itch from the September 1955 issue of Screenland Plus TV-Land magazine Note this is a larger, better quality copy of the p](https://film.one/media/person/3867452/gallery-cd18121526f4.jpg) Photo of Marilyn Monroe in Seven Year Itch from the September 1955 issue of Screenland Plus TV-Land magazine Note this is a larger, better quality copy of the p — Popular Library New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Marilyn_Monroe_Seven_Year_Itch.jpg/1280px-Marilyn_Monroe_Seven_Year_Itch.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won - Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play 1953: Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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