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