Acting · Owensboro, Kentucky, USA · Born April 29, 1909
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.
MovieScotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
as Self (archive footage)
MovieAll Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
as Richard Sherman (archive footage)
MovieJayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
2015
as Self (archive footage)
MovieHollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990
as (archive footage)
TVMurder, She Wrote
1984
as Josh Corbin
MovieEasy Money
1983
as Scrappleton
MovieTerror at Alcatraz
1982
as Johnson
TVBest of the West
1981
as Jerome Kullens
TVTrapper John, M.D.
1979
TVEischied
1979
MovieTropic of Desire
1979
as Hadley Crabtree
MovieThe Return of Mod Squad
1979
as Cook
TVFlying High
1978
TVTaxi
1978
as Dr. Richmond
TVFantasy Island
1978
as Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
MoviePromise Him Anything
1975
as Judge
TVBaretta
1975
MovieThe Great Gatsby
1974
as Mourner (uncredited)
MovieThe Spy Who Returned from the Dead
1974
as Lubow
MovieThey Only Kill Their Masters
1972
as Walter
TVTemperatures Rising
1972
as Harry Butler
MovieTo Find a Man
1972
as Dr. Hargrove
TVAlias Smith and Jones
1971
MovieSuppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970
as Billy Joe Davis
TVThe Name of the Game
1968
as District Attorney Simpson
MovieThe World of Abbott and Costello
1965
as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
TVBurke's Law
1963
as Leander Clement
MovieMarilyn
1963
as archive footage
TVThe Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
MovieState Fair
1962
as Abel Frake
MovieTender Is the Night
1962
as Abe North
TVThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
The Tom Ewell Show
1960
MovieA Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958
as Max Rutgers
MovieThe Girl Can't Help It
1956
as Tom Miller
MovieThe Great American Pastime
1956
as Bruce Hallerton
TVThe Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
MovieThe Lieutenant Wore Skirts
1956
as Gregory Whitcomb
Playwrights '56
1955
TVAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Albert Pelham
MovieThe Seven Year Itch
1955
as Richard Sherman
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
as John Emmet Owens
MovieBack at the Front
1952
as Willie
MovieLost in Alaska
1952
as Nugget Joe McDermott
MovieFinders Keepers
1952
as Tiger Kipps
MovieUp Front
1951
as Willie
MovieMr. Music
1950
as 'Cupcake' Haggerty
MovieAmerican Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950
as Jim Mitchell
MovieA Life of Her Own
1950
as Tom Caraway
TVYour Show of Shows
1950
TVWhat's My Line?
1950
as Self
TVRobert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Tom Howard
MovieAdam's Rib
1949
as Warren Attinger
TVLights Out
1949
MovieConcerning a Woman of Sin
1949
TVStudio One
1948
as Willie Mason
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
1947
MovieDesert Bandit
1941
as Texas Ranger Ordway
MovieThey Knew What They Wanted
1940
as New Hired Hand (uncredited)
