Tom Ewell
- Teen actor
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.
Acted in
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
as Self (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
as Richard Sherman (archive footage)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990
as (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986
as Self (from The Seven Year Itch [1955]) (archive footage)
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Josh Corbin
Easy Money
1983
as Scrappleton
Terror at Alcatraz
1982
as Johnson
Best of the West
1981
as Jerome Kullens
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
Eischied
1979
Tropic of Desire
1979
as Hadley Crabtree
The Return of Mod Squad
1979
as Cook
Flying High
1978
Taxi
1978
as Dr. Richmond
Fantasy Island
1978
as Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
Promise Him Anything
1975
as Judge
Baretta
1975
The Great Gatsby
1974
as Mourner (uncredited)
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
1974
as Lubow
They Only Kill Their Masters
1972
as Walter
Temperatures Rising
1972
as Harry Butler
To Find a Man
1972
as Dr. Hargrove
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970
as Billy Joe Davis
The Name of the Game
1968
as District Attorney Simpson
The World of Abbott and Costello
1965
as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
Burke's Law
1963
as Leander Clement
Marilyn
1963
as Self ("The Seven Year Itch") (archive footage) (uncredited)
State Fair
1962
as Abel Frake
Tender Is the Night
1962
as Abe North
The Tom Ewell Show
1960
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958
as Max Rutgers
The Girl Can't Help It
1956
as Tom Miller
The Great American Pastime
1956
as Bruce Hallerton
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
1956
as Gregory Whitcomb
Playwrights '56
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Albert Pelham
The Seven Year Itch
1955
as Richard Sherman
General Electric Theater
1953
as John Emmet Owens
Back at the Front
1952
as Willie
Lost in Alaska
1952
as Nugget Joe McDermott
Finders Keepers
1952
as Tiger Kipps
Up Front
1951
as Willie
Mr. Music
1950
as 'Cupcake' Haggerty
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950
as Jim Mitchell
A Life of Her Own
1950
as Tom Caraway
Your Show of Shows
1950
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Tom Howard
Adam's Rib
1949
as Warren Attinger
Lights Out
1949
Concerning a Woman of Sin
1949
Studio One
1948
as Willie Mason
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
1947
Desert Bandit
1941
as Texas Ranger Ordway
They Knew What They Wanted
1940
as New Hired Hand (uncredited)