Acting

Tom Ewell

Born 1909-04-29 · Owensboro, Kentucky, USA

Died 1994-09-12

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

Newest first

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