Tom Ewell
Tom Ewell was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, United States on April 29th, 1909 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 85, Tom Ewell biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Tom Ewell (born Samuel Yewell Tompkins, 1909-2004) was an American film, stage and television actor, and producer, and his most well-known role in The Seven Year Itch was played by Richard Sherman, who appeared in the Broadway stage production (1952–1954) and reprised in the 1955 Hollywood film version.
He received a Tony Award for the performance and a Golden Globe Award for the film.
He appeared in several other light comedies of the 1950s, most notably The Girl Can't Help It (1956), although he preferred the stage over the years.
Early life
Ewell was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, the son of Martine (née Yewell) and Samuel William Tompkins. His family aspired him to follow in their footsteps as lawyers or whiskey and tobacco dealers, but Ewell refused to continue acting instead. Don Ameche began working in summer stock with Don Ameche in 1928 before moving to New York City in 1931. He enrolled in the Actors Studio.
Personal life and death
He married Judy Abbott, the daughter of Broadway director George Abbott's, on March 18, 1946; the short-lived marriage ended in divorce a year later. Ewell married Marjorie Sanborn on May 5, 1948; the couple had a son, Taylor.
On September 12, 1994, Ewell died of undisclosed causes at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital. Marjorie, his widow, said he had suffered from a long line of illnesses. Ewell was also survived by his adopted son, Taylor (11/2/1954), and by his mother, Martine Yewell Tompkins (1889–1998), who died in Curdsville, Kentucky, where she died at age 109.
Career
He made his Broadway debut in 1934 and his film debut in 1940, and for several years, he played comic supporting roles. His acting career was interrupted during World War II when he served in the United States Navy.
After World War II, Ewell attracted attention with a strong performance in the film Adam's Rib (1949), and he began to receive Hollywood roles more frequently. Ewell continued acting in summer stock through the 1940s: He starred opposite June Lockhart in Lawrence Riley's biographical play Kin Hubbard in 1951, the story of one of America's greatest humorists and cartoonists, Kin Hubbard. With this play, he made his debut as a producer. In 1947, he won a Clarence Derwent Award for his portrayal of Fred Taylor in the original Broadway cast of John Loves Mary.
His most successful and, arguably, most identifiable role came in 1952, when he joined the Broadway production of The Seven Year Itch as protagonist Richard Sherman. With Vanessa Brown as "The Girl", Ewell played the part more than 950 times over three years, as he indicated in a mystery guest appearance on the June 12, 1955 airing of What's My Line? to promote the 1955 film adaptation. He earned both the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for portraying Sherman.
He enjoyed other film successes, including The Lieutenant Wore Skirts with Sheree North and The Girl Can't Help It (both 1956) opposite Jayne Mansfield. In The Girl Can't Help It, Julie London appears as a mirage to Tom Miller (Ewell) singing her signature song, "Cry Me a River". He played Abel Frake in the 1962 version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical State Fair. In 1956, at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, he co-starred with Bert Lahr in the U.S. premiere of Waiting for Godot.
However, as his film and theater careers seemed to have reached their peaks, he turned his attention to television. Over several years, he played guest roles in numerous series, and received an Emmy Award nomination for his continuing role in Baretta. In 1982, he co-starred as the drunken town doctor in the short lived comedy Best of the West. His final acting performance was in a 1986 episode of Murder, She Wrote.
From September 1960 to May 1961, Ewell starred in his own television series, in the self-titled The Tom Ewell Show, which lasted for one season.
In 1970, Ewell played Hoy Valentine in The Men From Shiloh (the rebranded name of The Virginian) in the episode titled "With Love, Bullets and Valentines". In the mid-1970s, Ewell enjoyed popular success with a recurring role as retired veteran policeman Billy Truman in the 1970s Emmy-winning TV series Baretta. Ewell appeared in 36 episodes of the TV-cop series, which starred Robert Blake as Detective Tony Baretta, until its end in 1978. In 1979, he was a guest star on the TV series Taxi. Ewell also co-starred from 1981 to 1982 in the short-lived TV series Best of the West.