Tom Ewell Overview:

Character actor, Tom Ewell, was born Samuel Yewell Tompkins on Apr 29, 1909 in Owensboro, KY. Ewell died at the age of 85 on Sep 12, 1994 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles and was cremated and his ashes given to family or friend.

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American actor who played gullible sorts or inept woman chasers, with the occasional wisecracking friend on the side. Not really discovered by Hollywood until into his forties, when his mournful features found their way into several classic comedies. But the qualities of the roles offered fell away, and he returned to his first love, the stage.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Tom Ewell Quotes:

[Richard exhales after a long drag on a forbidden cigarette]
Richard Sherman: All those lovely, injurious tars and resins.


Warren Francis Attinger: [to Adam Bonner] Listen, you don't get a split lip from imagination!


Richard Sherman: Miss, may I have the check, please?
Waitress at Vegetarian Restaurant: Oh, yes, sir. Now let's see... we had the number seven special, a soybean hamburger with french-fried soybeans... Soybean sherbet and peppermint tea.
Richard Sherman: Don't forget I had a cocktail to start.
Waitress at Vegetarian Restaurant: Oh yes, we had the sauerkraut juice on the rocks, didn't we? You will be proud to know that your entire meal with the cocktail was only 260 calories.
Richard Sherman: I am proud.


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Tom Ewell Facts
Was a charter member of the Owensboro High School Rose Curtain Players in 1923.

Was inducted in the Owensboro High School Hall of Fame in 2003.

Ex-son-in-law of George Abbott.

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