Acting
Tom Ewell
Acting · Born 1909-04-29 · Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
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.
Credits · 60
FilmScotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018 · Self (archive footage)
FilmAll Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016 · Richard Sherman (archive footage)
FilmJayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
2015 · Self (archive footage)
FilmHollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990 · (archive footage)
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Josh Corbin
FilmEasy Money
1983 · Scrappleton
FilmTerror at Alcatraz
1982 · Johnson
Best of the West
1981 · Jerome Kullens
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
Eischied
1979
FilmTropic of Desire
1979 · Hadley Crabtree
FilmThe Return of Mod Squad
1979 · Cook
Flying High
1978
Taxi
1978 · Dr. Richmond
Fantasy Island
1978 · Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
FilmPromise Him Anything
1975 · Judge
Baretta
1975 · Billy Truman
FilmThe Great Gatsby
1974 · Mourner (uncredited)
FilmThe Spy Who Returned from the Dead
1974 · Lubow
FilmThey Only Kill Their Masters
1972 · Walter
Temperatures Rising
1972 · Harry Butler
FilmTo Find a Man
1972 · Dr. Hargrove
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
FilmSuppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970 · Billy Joe Davis
The Name of the Game
1968 · District Attorney Simpson
FilmThe World of Abbott and Costello
1965 · Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
Burke's Law
1963 · Leander Clement
FilmMarilyn
1963 · archive footage
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
FilmState Fair
1962 · Abel Frake
FilmTender Is the Night
1962 · Abe North
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
The Tom Ewell Show
1960
FilmA Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958 · Max Rutgers
FilmThe Girl Can't Help It
1956 · Tom Miller
FilmThe Great American Pastime
1956 · Bruce Hallerton
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956 · Self
FilmThe Lieutenant Wore Skirts
1956 · Gregory Whitcomb
Playwrights '56
Playwrights '56
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Albert Pelham
FilmThe Seven Year Itch
1955 · Richard Sherman
General Electric Theater
1953 · John Emmet Owens
FilmBack at the Front
1952 · Willie
FilmLost in Alaska
1952 · Nugget Joe McDermott
FilmFinders Keepers
1952 · Tiger Kipps
FilmUp Front
1951 · Willie
FilmMr. Music
1950 · 'Cupcake' Haggerty
FilmAmerican Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950 · Jim Mitchell
FilmA Life of Her Own
1950 · Tom Caraway
Your Show of Shows
1950
What's My Line?
1950 · Self
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 · Tom Howard
FilmAdam's Rib
1949 · Warren Attinger
Lights Out
1949
FilmConcerning a Woman of Sin
1949
Studio One
1948 · Willie Mason
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
FilmParamount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
1947
FilmDesert Bandit
1941 · Texas Ranger Ordway
FilmThey Knew What They Wanted
1940 · New Hired Hand (uncredited)