Tom Ewell
Known for: Acting
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
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Series
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Series
Murder, She Wrote
Josh Corbin
1984
Series
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
Series
Fantasy Island
Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
1978
Series
Robert Montgomery Presents
Tom Howard
1950
Series
Taxi
Dr. Richmond
1978
Series
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Series
Studio One
Willie Mason
1948
Series
Baretta
1975
Series
Baretta
Billy Truman
1975
Series
Burke's Law
Leander Clement
1963
Series
The Name of the Game
District Attorney Simpson
1968
Series
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
Series
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Albert Pelham
1955
Series
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
1956
Series
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Series
Lights Out
1949
Series
Your Show of Shows
1950
Series
Temperatures Rising
Harry Butler
1972
Film
The Great Gatsby
Mourner (uncredited)
1974
Series
Flying High
1978
Film
The Seven Year Itch
Richard Sherman
1955
Playwrights '56
1955
Series
Best of the West
Jerome Kullens
1981
Film
Tropic of Desire
Hadley Crabtree
1979
Film
Adam's Rib
Warren Attinger
1949
Film
Easy Money
Scrappleton
1983
The Tom Ewell Show
1960
Series
Eischied
1979
Series
General Electric Theater
John Emmet Owens
1953
Film
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
The Girl Can't Help It
Tom Miller
1956
Film
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Gregory Whitcomb
1956
Film
State Fair
Abel Frake
1962
Film
Tender Is the Night
Abe North
1962
Film
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Richard Sherman (archive footage)
2016
Film
The Great American Pastime
Bruce Hallerton
1956
Film
They Only Kill Their Masters
Walter
1972
Film
Lost in Alaska
Nugget Joe McDermott
1952
Film
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Jim Mitchell
1950
Film
The Return of Mod Squad
Cook
1979
Film
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Max Rutgers
1958
Film
Marilyn
archive footage
1963
Film
They Knew What They Wanted
New Hired Hand (uncredited)
1940
Film
A Life of Her Own
Tom Caraway
1950
Film
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Billy Joe Davis
1970
Film
Mr. Music
'Cupcake' Haggerty
1950
Film
To Find a Man
Dr. Hargrove
1972
Film
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
(archive footage)
1990
Film
Up Front
Willie
1951
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
1947
Film
Terror at Alcatraz
Johnson
1982
Film
The World of Abbott and Costello
Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
1965
Film
Promise Him Anything
Judge
1975
Film
Desert Bandit
Texas Ranger Ordway
1941
Film
Back at the Front
Willie
1952
Film
Finders Keepers
Tiger Kipps
1952
Film
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
Lubow
1974
Film
Concerning a Woman of Sin
1949