AKA: S Yewell Tompkins, Yewell Tompkins
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 04/29/1909
Birthplace: Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Death Date: 09/12/1994
Comic performer with stage experience who had his first featured role as a philanderer in "Adam's Rib" (1949) and went on to specialize in portraying inept women-chasers and harried ordinary men. Ewell had the good fortune to co-star with two of Hollywood's biggest sex symbols of the mid-1950s: Marilyn Monroe in "The Seven Year Itch" (1955) and Jayne Mansfield in "The Girl Can't Help It" (1956).
1928
Stage acting debut in "The Spider" with the Al Jackson Players stock company while at college
Worked as salesman at Macy's before Broadway debut in 1934
1934
Broadway debut in "They Shall Not Die"
1935
Radio acting debut, 'The March of Time"
1940
Film acting debut in "They Knew What They Wanted"
