Tom Ewell
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.
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Acting History
2018
Scotty 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)
1990Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths as (archive footage)
1984Murder, She Wrote as Josh Corbin
1983Easy Money as Scrappleton
1982Terror at Alcatraz as Johnson
1981Best of the West as Jerome Kullens
1979Trapper John, M.D.
1979Eischied
1979Tropic of Desire as Hadley Crabtree
1979The Return of Mod Squad as Cook
1978Flying High
1978Taxi as Dr. Richmond
1978Fantasy Island as Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
1975Promise Him Anything as Judge
1975Baretta
1974The Great Gatsby as Mourner (uncredited)
1974The Spy Who Returned from the Dead as Lubow
1972They Only Kill Their Masters as Walter
1972Temperatures Rising as Harry Butler
1972To Find a Man as Dr. Hargrove
1971Alias Smith and Jones
1970Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? as Billy Joe Davis
1968The Name of the Game as District Attorney Simpson
1965The World of Abbott and Costello as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
1963Burke's Law as Leander Clement
1963Marilyn as Self ("The Seven Year Itch") (archive footage) (uncredited)
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1962State Fair as Abel Frake
1962Tender Is the Night as Abe North
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1960The Tom Ewell Show
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 Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
1956The Lieutenant Wore Skirts as Gregory Whitcomb
1955Playwrights '56
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Albert Pelham
1955The Seven Year Itch as Richard Sherman
1953General Electric Theater as John Emmet Owens
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
1950Your Show of Shows
1950What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
1950Robert Montgomery Presents as Tom Howard
1949Adam's Rib as Warren Attinger
1949Lights Out
1949Concerning a Woman of Sin
1948Studio One as Willie Mason
1947Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
1941Desert Bandit as Texas Ranger Ordway
1940They Knew What They Wanted as New Hired Hand (uncredited)