Tom Ewell Net Worth is
$1.3 Million

Mini Biography

Beleaguered figure actor Tom Ewell, the improbable film and TV star using the brand lumpy shape and droopy, lugubrious mug, was created Samuel Yewell Tompkins about April 29, 1909, in Kentucky. His family members attempted to steer him towards a regulation profession but he find the route of acting rather after becoming involved with college productions in the College or university of Wisconsin. Ewell began his profession at age 19 in summer season stock tasks, marking his professional stage debut in the play “The Spider” in 1928, prior to making an emphatic proceed to New York 3 years later on. A previous salesman at Macy’s, he discovered an “in” using the famed Stars Studio (later on appearing in several their “Actor’s Studio room” TV shows in the past due 1940s) before acquiring his first Broadway drape contact the crisis “They Shall Not really Die” in 1934. For all of those other decade he proven his flexibility in both comedies and dramas with tasks in such NY takes on as “The Initial Legion,” “Geraniums in my own Windowpane,” “Allow Freedom Band,” “Ethan Frome,” “Cigarette Street,” “Stage Door,” “Sibling Rat,” “The Vendor of Yonkers” and “FACE”. Ewell produced an inauspicious film debut with an unbilled little bit in the humor They Knew What They Wanted (1940) and continued that same yr just like bleakly in the westerns Back the Saddle (1941), Desert Bandit (1941) and A CHILD from Kansas (1941). Better fitted to Broadway, he discovered more challenging tasks back again East in “Suzanna as well as the Elders” (1940), “Liberty Jones” (1941) and “Sunny River” before his profession was all of a sudden interrupted by Globe War II services. A return to THE FANTASTIC White Method happened nearly immediately upon his release and Tom scored using the comedy hits “Apple of His Attention” (1946) and “John Loves Mary,” the second option earning him the Clarence Derwent Award. He also co-starred in the musical revue “Little Question” in 1948. Hollywood appeared to pay out more attention these times what along with his developing theater status and he was handed a good role (after showing up in several Paramount “Pacemaker” brief comedies) in the Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn traditional battle-of-the-sexes film humor Adam’s Rib (1949). Playing Judy Holliday’s faithless spouse in a component that would later on mirror several his ageing, roving-eye philanderer (without the buckshot, obviously, thanks to Judy!), Tom’s film profession finally kicked into high equipment. A succession of wisecracking personality facilitates came his way however the initial two were played against his comedy typecast. He was third-billed behind Lana Turner and Ray Milland in the elegant intimate meller A Lifestyle of Her Very own (1950) as Turner’s suave modeling agent and performed a fellow reporter along with Tyrone Power in the WWII play American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950). Back the comedy flip, he made an appearance in the Bing Crosby musical starrer Mr. Music (1950) before writing co-star billing with David Wayne in the Willie and Joe battle comedy IN ADVANCE (1951). He finally received best billing in the humor Finders Keepers (1952) and once again in Back at the front end (1952) when he reprised his Willie personality alongside Harvey Lembeck, who changed a departing David Wayne as Joe. Definitely Tom’s most successful component began in Broadway in 1952 with “The Seven Calendar year Itch” contrary a delectable Vanessa Dark brown as “THE LADY Upstairs”. The display ran for pretty much 3 years and Ewell performed the daydreaming adulterer wannabe Richard Sherman component a lot more than 900 situations, ultimately earning the Tony Award for his comedic tour de drive. Thankfully, he was permitted to recreate the wayward hubby part when The Seven Yr Itch (1955) used in film co-starring Hollywood’s most popular property at that time, Marilyn Monroe. Although an Oscar nomination eluded him because of this overall performance, he received a Golden World Award and personality film stardom was guaranteed…at least for a while. The pudding-faced actor tried to patent his leering “ordinary man” with other female knockouts — THE LADY Can’t MAKE IT (1956) opposite blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield, THE FANTASTIC American Pastime (1956) with fetching Anne Francis as well as the Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956) co-starring sexy Sheree North, however the vehicles were slight compared. The horse-racing yarn A GOOD Little Bank THAT NEEDS TO BE Robbed (1958) co-starring Mickey Rooney covered up Tom’s starring profession in films. The middle-aged actor turned increasingly more of his focus on stage and television as of this juncture. He loved great applause once more for the Broadway comedies “The Tunnel of Appreciate” and “A Thurber Carnival” and continued to superstar in his very own sitcom, The Tom Ewell Present (1960), portraying an agent whose local lifestyle is challenging by all of the ladies in his lifestyle (wife, three daughters, mother-in-law). It lasted one comprehensive season. He eventually appeared in regular guest performances on TV over time, and also a few movies occasionally. The 60-year-old professional rejuvenated on Television using the success from the Robert Blake series Baretta (1975). Tom retired in the middle-1980s after completing work on both TV series humor Greatest of the Western world (1981) as well as the Rodney Dangerfield slapstick film Easy Cash (1983). The actor’s first relationship to Judith Ann Abbott, the only child of famed Broadway director George Abbott lasted only a year, but his relationship to Marjorie Sanborn on, may 5, 1948, endured an eternity and produced one son. Tom’s wellness dropped sharply in his last years and he passed away on Sept 12, 1994, of problems from several maladies on the Motion Picture Nation House and Medical center in Woodland Hillsides, California. He was 85. Ewell’s mom outlived him, loss of life in 1998 at age 105.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Don Ewell
Date Of Birth	November 14, 1916
Died	August 9, 1983, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Profession	Jazz Pianist
Nationality	American