- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- April 29, 1909
- Place of Birth
- Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
- Died
- September 12, 1994
Tom Ewell
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
movieScotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018 · Self (archive footage)
movieAll Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016 · Richard Sherman (archive footage)
movieJayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
2015 · Self (archive footage)
movieHollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990 · (archive footage)
tvMurder, She Wrote
1984 · Josh Corbin
movieEasy Money
1983 · Scrappleton
movieTerror at Alcatraz
1982 · Johnson
tvBest of the West
1981 · Jerome Kullens
tvTrapper John, M.D.
1979
tvEischied
1979
movieTropic of Desire
1979 · Hadley Crabtree
movieThe Return of Mod Squad
1979 · Cook
tvFlying High
1978
tvTaxi
1978 · Dr. Richmond
tvFantasy Island
1978 · Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
moviePromise Him Anything
1975 · Judge
tvBaretta
1975
movieThe Great Gatsby
1974 · Mourner (uncredited)
movieThe Spy Who Returned from the Dead
1974 · Lubow
movieThey Only Kill Their Masters
1972 · Walter
tvTemperatures Rising
1972 · Harry Butler
movieTo Find a Man
1972 · Dr. Hargrove
tvAlias Smith and Jones
1971
movieSuppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970 · Billy Joe Davis
tvThe Name of the Game
1968 · District Attorney Simpson
movieThe World of Abbott and Costello
1965 · Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
tvBurke's Law
1963 · Leander Clement
movieMarilyn
1963 · archive footage
tvThe Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
tvThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
movieState Fair
1962 · Abel Frake
movieTender Is the Night
1962 · Abe North
tvThe Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
The Tom Ewell Show
1960
movieA Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958 · Max Rutgers
movieThe Girl Can't Help It
1956 · Tom Miller
movieThe Great American Pastime
1956 · Bruce Hallerton
tvThe Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956 · Self
movieThe Lieutenant Wore Skirts
1956 · Gregory Whitcomb
Playwrights '56
1955
tvAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Albert Pelham
movieThe Seven Year Itch
1955 · Richard Sherman
tvGeneral Electric Theater
1953 · John Emmet Owens
movieBack at the Front
1952 · Willie
movieLost in Alaska
1952 · Nugget Joe McDermott
movieFinders Keepers
1952 · Tiger Kipps
movieUp Front
1951 · Willie
movieMr. Music
1950 · 'Cupcake' Haggerty
movieAmerican Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950 · Jim Mitchell
movieA Life of Her Own
1950 · Tom Caraway
tvYour Show of Shows
1950
tvWhat's My Line?
1950 · Self
tvRobert Montgomery Presents
1950 · Tom Howard
movieAdam's Rib
1949 · Warren Attinger
tvLights Out
1949
movieConcerning a Woman of Sin
1949
tvStudio One
1948 · Willie Mason
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
1947
movieDesert Bandit
1941 · Texas Ranger Ordway
movieThey Knew What They Wanted
1940 · New Hired Hand (uncredited)