Tom Ewell
Acting
Born: 1909-04-29 · Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Died: 1994-09-12
Biography
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.
🎬 Movies (20)
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
Self (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
Richard Sherman (archive footage)
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
2015
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990
(archive footage)
Easy Money
1983
Scrappleton
Terror at Alcatraz
1982
Johnson
Tropic of Desire
1979
Hadley Crabtree
The Return of Mod Squad
1979
Cook
Promise Him Anything
1975
Judge
The Great Gatsby
1974
Mourner (uncredited)
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
1974
Lubow
They Only Kill Their Masters
1972
Walter
To Find a Man
1972
Dr. Hargrove
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970
Billy Joe Davis
The World of Abbott and Costello
1965
Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
Marilyn
1963
archive footage
State Fair
1962
Abel Frake
Tender Is the Night
1962
Abe North
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958
Max Rutgers
The Girl Can't Help It
1956
Tom Miller
📺 TV Shows (20)
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Josh Corbin
Best of the West
1981
Jerome Kullens
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
Eischied
1979
Flying High
1978
Taxi
1978
Dr. Richmond
Fantasy Island
1978
Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
Baretta
1975
Temperatures Rising
1972
Harry Butler
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Name of the Game
1968
District Attorney Simpson
Burke's Law
1963
Leander Clement
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Self
The Tom Ewell Show
1960
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
Self
Playwrights '56
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Albert Pelham
General Electric Theater
1953
John Emmet Owens