Tom Ewell
Acting • Born 1909-04-29 – Died 1994-09-12
Biography
Tom Ewell (born Samuel Yewell Tompkins) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He is noted for having Starred alongside two of Classic Hollywood's Iconic Bombshells, first reprising his stage role in The Seven Year Itch (1955), which he starred Opposite Marilyn Munroe in what is considered one of her most iconic roles and then the following year The Girl Can't Help it (1956) alongside Jayne Mansfield in her breakthrough role. Ewell had 70 credits in film and television.
Filmography
58 credits
The Seven Year Itch
Movie • 1955
Richard Sherman
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Movie • 1990
(archive footage)
Finders Keepers
Movie • 1952
Tiger Kipps
Adam's Rib
Movie • 1949
Warren Attinger
State Fair
Movie • 1962
Abel Frake
The Girl Can't Help It
Movie • 1956
Tom Miller
They Only Kill Their Masters
Movie • 1972
Walter
Easy Money
Movie • 1983
Scrappleton
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Movie • 1950
Jim Mitchell
The Great American Pastime
Movie • 1956
Bruce Hallerton
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Movie • 1956
Gregory Whitcomb
Mr. Music
Movie • 1950
'Cupcake' Haggerty
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Movie • 1958
Max Rutgers
To Find a Man
Movie • 1972
Dr. Hargrove
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
A Life of Her Own
Movie • 1950
Tom Caraway
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Movie • 1970
Billy Joe Davis
Up Front
Movie • 1951
Willie
Back at the Front
Movie • 1952
Willie
Terror at Alcatraz
Movie • 1982
Johnson
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
Movie • 1947
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
Movie • 1974
Lubow
Tropic of Desire
Movie • 1979
Hadley Crabtree
They Knew What They Wanted
Movie • 1940
New Hired Hand (uncredited)
Desert Bandit
Movie • 1941
Texas Ranger Ordway
Promise Him Anything
Movie • 1975
Judge
Lost in Alaska
Movie • 1952
Nugget Joe McDermott
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Movie • 2016
Richard Sherman (archive footage)
The Return of Mod Squad
Movie • 1979
Cook
Tender Is the Night
Movie • 1962
Abe North
The World of Abbott and Costello
Movie • 1965
Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
Concerning a Woman of Sin
Movie • 1949
The Great Gatsby
Movie • 1974
Mourner (uncredited)
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Josh Corbin
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Leander Clement
Trapper John, M.D.
TV • 1979
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
Best of the West
TV • 1981
Jerome Kullens
Baretta
TV • 1975
Alias Smith and Jones
TV • 1971
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
John Emmet Owens
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Albert Pelham
Your Show of Shows
TV • 1950
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV • 1956
Self
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Tom Howard
Playwrights '56
TV • 1955
Eischied
TV • 1979
Lights Out
TV • 1949
Flying High
TV • 1978
The Tom Ewell Show
TV • 1960
Taxi
TV • 1978
Dr. Richmond
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Studio One
TV • 1948
Willie Mason
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Temperatures Rising
TV • 1972
Harry Butler
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
District Attorney Simpson
Fantasy Island
TV • 1978
Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan