Tom Ewell
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.
TV Shows(25)
Murder, She Wrote
Josh Corbin
1984
Best of the West
Jerome Kullens
1981
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
Eischied
1979
Flying High
1978
Taxi
Dr. Richmond
1978
Fantasy Island
Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
1978
Baretta
1975
Temperatures Rising
Harry Butler
1972
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Name of the Game
District Attorney Simpson
1968
Burke's Law
Leander Clement
1963
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
The Tom Ewell Show
1960
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
1956
Playwrights '56
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Albert Pelham
1955
General Electric Theater
John Emmet Owens
1953
Your Show of Shows
1950
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
Tom Howard
1950
Lights Out
1949
Studio One
Willie Mason
1948
Movies(35)
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2018
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Richard Sherman (archive footage)
2016
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
(archive footage)
2015
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
(archive footage)
1990
Easy Money
Scrappleton
1983
Terror at Alcatraz
Johnson
1982
Tropic of Desire
Hadley Crabtree
1979
The Return of Mod Squad
Cook
1979
Promise Him Anything
Judge
1975
The Great Gatsby
Mourner (uncredited)
1974
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
Lubow
1974
They Only Kill Their Masters
Walter
1972
To Find a Man
Dr. Hargrove
1972
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Billy Joe Davis
1970
The World of Abbott and Costello
Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
1965
Marilyn
archive footage
1963
State Fair
Abel Frake
1962
Tender Is the Night
Abe North
1962
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Max Rutgers
1958
The Girl Can't Help It
Tom Miller
1956
The Great American Pastime
Bruce Hallerton
1956
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Gregory Whitcomb
1956
The Seven Year Itch
Richard Sherman
1955
Back at the Front
Willie
1952
Lost in Alaska
Nugget Joe McDermott
1952
Finders Keepers
Tiger Kipps
1952
Up Front
Willie
1951
Mr. Music
'Cupcake' Haggerty
1950
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Jim Mitchell
1950
A Life of Her Own
Tom Caraway
1950
Adam's Rib
Warren Attinger
1949
Concerning a Woman of Sin
1949
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
1947
Desert Bandit
Texas Ranger Ordway
1941
They Knew What They Wanted
New Hired Hand (uncredited)
1940