Tom Ewell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 29 April 1909 · Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
- Died
- 12 September 1994
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.
Known for
Acting 38
- 2018Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 2016All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone as Richard Sherman (archive footage)
- 2015Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde as Self (archive footage)
- 1990Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths as Self
- 1986Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend as Self (from The Seven Year Itch [1955]) (archive footage)
- 1983Easy Money as Scrappleton
- 1982Terror at Alcatraz as Johnson
- 1979Tropic of Desire as Hadley Crabtree
- 1979The Return of Mod Squad as Cook
- 1975Promise Him Anything as Judge
- 1975Baretta as Billy Truman · 3 episodes
- 1974The Great Gatsby as Mourner (uncredited)
- 1974The Spy Who Returned from the Dead as Lubow
- 1972They Only Kill Their Masters as Walter
- 1972To Find a Man as Dr. Hargrove
- 1970Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? as Billy Joe Davis
- 1965The World of Abbott and Costello as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
- 1963Marilyn as archive footage
- 1962State Fair as Abel Frake
- 1962Tender Is the Night as Abe North
- 1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self · 1 episode
- 1958A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed as Max Rutgers
- 1956The Girl Can't Help It as Tom Miller
- 1956The Great American Pastime as Bruce Hallerton
- 1956The Lieutenant Wore Skirts as Gregory Whitcomb
- 1955The Seven Year Itch as Richard Sherman
- 1952Back at the Front as Willie
- 1952Lost in Alaska as Nugget Joe McDermott
- 1952Finders Keepers as Tiger Kipps
- 1951Up Front as Willie
- 1950Mr. Music as 'Cupcake' Haggerty
- 1950American Guerrilla in the Philippines as Jim Mitchell
- 1950A Life of Her Own as Tom Caraway
- 1949Adam's Rib as Warren Attinger
- 1949Concerning a Woman of Sin
- 1947Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
- 1941Desert Bandit as Texas Ranger Ordway
- 1940They Knew What They Wanted as New Hired Hand (uncredited)