Tom Ewell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 29, 1909
- Died
- Sep 12, 1994 (aged 85)
- Place of birth
- Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
- Credits
- 60
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.
Known for
Filmography
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018Movie
Self (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016Movie
Richard Sherman (archive footage)
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
2015Movie
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990Movie
Self
Murder, She Wrote
1984TV
Josh Corbin
Easy Money
1983Movie
Scrappleton
Terror at Alcatraz
1982Movie
Johnson
Best of the West
1981TV
Jerome Kullens
Trapper John, M.D.
1979TV
Eischied
1979TV
Tropic of Desire
1979Movie
Hadley Crabtree
The Return of Mod Squad
1979Movie
Cook
Flying High
1978TV
Taxi
1978TV
Dr. Richmond
Fantasy Island
1978TV
Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
Promise Him Anything
1975Movie
Judge
Baretta
1975TV
Billy Truman
The Great Gatsby
1974Movie
Mourner (uncredited)
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
1974Movie
Lubow
They Only Kill Their Masters
1972Movie
Walter
Temperatures Rising
1972TV
Harry Butler
To Find a Man
1972Movie
Dr. Hargrove
Alias Smith and Jones
1971TV
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970Movie
Billy Joe Davis
The Name of the Game
1968TV
District Attorney Simpson
The World of Abbott and Costello
1965Movie
Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
Burke's Law
1963TV
Leander Clement
Marilyn
1963Movie
archive footage
The Merv Griffin Show
1962TV
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962TV
Self
State Fair
1962Movie
Abel Frake
Tender Is the Night
1962Movie
Abe North
The Mike Douglas Show
1961TV
Self
The Tom Ewell Show
1960TV
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958Movie
Max Rutgers
The Girl Can't Help It
1956Movie
Tom Miller
The Great American Pastime
1956Movie
Bruce Hallerton
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956TV
Self
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
1956Movie
Gregory Whitcomb
Playwrights '56
1955TV
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955TV
Albert Pelham
The Seven Year Itch
1955Movie
Richard Sherman
General Electric Theater
1953TV
John Emmet Owens
Back at the Front
1952Movie
Willie
Lost in Alaska
1952Movie
Nugget Joe McDermott
Finders Keepers
1952Movie
Tiger Kipps
Up Front
1951Movie
Willie
Mr. Music
1950Movie
'Cupcake' Haggerty
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950Movie
Jim Mitchell
A Life of Her Own
1950Movie
Tom Caraway
Your Show of Shows
1950TV
What's My Line?
1950TV
Self
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950TV
Tom Howard
Adam's Rib
1949Movie
Warren Attinger
Lights Out
1949TV
Concerning a Woman of Sin
1949Movie
Studio One
1948TV
Willie Mason
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
1947Movie
Desert Bandit
1941Movie
Texas Ranger Ordway
They Knew What They Wanted
1940Movie
New Hired Hand (uncredited)