Tom Ewell

Acting

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.

Filmography 60

Movies (35)

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
The Great American Pastime
1956
Bruce Hallerton
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
1956
Gregory Whitcomb
The Seven Year Itch
1955
Richard Sherman
Back at the Front
1952
Willie
Lost in Alaska
1952
Nugget Joe McDermott
Finders Keepers
1952
Tiger Kipps
Up Front
1951
Willie
Mr. Music
1950
'Cupcake' Haggerty
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950
Jim Mitchell
A Life of Her Own
1950
Tom Caraway