Tom Ewell

Known for: Acting

Born: 1909-04-29 – 1994-09-12 (aged 85)

From: Owensboro, Kentucky, USA

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 (60)

MOVIE★ 5.9
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 7.4
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
as Richard Sherman (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 6.4
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
2015
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 5.7
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990
as (archive footage)
TV★ 7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Josh Corbin
MOVIE★ 6.0
Easy Money
1983
as Scrappleton
MOVIE★ 10.0
Terror at Alcatraz
1982
as Johnson
TV★ 6.8
Best of the West
1981
as Jerome Kullens
TV★ 6.6
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
TV★ 7.0
Eischied
1979
MOVIE★ 6.4
Tropic of Desire
1979
as Hadley Crabtree
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Return of Mod Squad
1979
as Cook
TV★ 6.3
Flying High
1978
TV★ 7.3
Taxi
1978
as Dr. Richmond
TV★ 6.5
Fantasy Island
1978
as Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
MOVIE★ 10.0
Promise Him Anything
1975
as Judge
TV★ 6.5
Baretta
1975
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Great Gatsby
1974
as Mourner (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 5.2
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
1974
as Lubow
MOVIE★ 5.1
They Only Kill Their Masters
1972
as Walter
TV★ 7.5
Temperatures Rising
1972
as Harry Butler
MOVIE★ 6.4
To Find a Man
1972
as Dr. Hargrove
TV★ 7.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
MOVIE★ 5.5
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970
as Billy Joe Davis
TV★ 7.0
The Name of the Game
1968
as District Attorney Simpson
MOVIE★ 6.8
The World of Abbott and Costello
1965
as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
TV★ 6.3
Burke's Law
1963
as Leander Clement
MOVIE★ 7.5
Marilyn
1963
as archive footage
TV★ 6.6
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
TV★ 7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
MOVIE★ 4.8
State Fair
1962
as Abel Frake
MOVIE★ 5.7
Tender Is the Night
1962
as Abe North
TV★ 5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
TV★ 9.0
The Tom Ewell Show
1960
MOVIE★ 4.8
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958
as Max Rutgers
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Girl Can't Help It
1956
as Tom Miller
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Great American Pastime
1956
as Bruce Hallerton
TV★ 6.4
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.8
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
1956
as Gregory Whitcomb
TV★ 6.3
Playwrights '56
1955
TV★ 7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Albert Pelham
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Seven Year Itch
1955
as Richard Sherman
TV★ 6.8
General Electric Theater
1953
as John Emmet Owens
MOVIE★ 10.0
Back at the Front
1952
as Willie
MOVIE★ 6.3
Lost in Alaska
1952
as Nugget Joe McDermott
MOVIE★ 10.0
Finders Keepers
1952
as Tiger Kipps
MOVIE★ 7.0
Up Front
1951
as Willie
MOVIE★ 6.5
Mr. Music
1950
as 'Cupcake' Haggerty
MOVIE★ 5.5
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950
as Jim Mitchell
MOVIE★ 5.3
A Life of Her Own
1950
as Tom Caraway
TV★ 7.3
Your Show of Shows
1950
TV★ 7.0
What's My Line?
1950
as Self
TV★ 6.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Tom Howard
MOVIE★ 7.1
Adam's Rib
1949
as Warren Attinger
TV★ 6.0
Lights Out
1949
MOVIE★ 10.0
Concerning a Woman of Sin
1949
TV★ 5.4
Studio One
1948
as Willie Mason
MOVIE★ 9.0
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
1947
MOVIE★ 9.0
Desert Bandit
1941
as Texas Ranger Ordway
MOVIE★ 6.0
They Knew What They Wanted
1940
as New Hired Hand (uncredited)