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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
The Seven Year Itch
as Richard Sherman
1955
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
as (archive footage)
1990
Finders Keepers
as Tiger Kipps
1952
Adam's Rib
as Warren Attinger
1949
State Fair
as Abel Frake
1962
The Girl Can't Help It
as Tom Miller
1956
They Only Kill Their Masters
as Walter
1972
Easy Money
as Scrappleton
1983
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
as Jim Mitchell
1950
The Great American Pastime
as Bruce Hallerton
1956
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
as Gregory Whitcomb
1956
Mr. Music
as 'Cupcake' Haggerty
1950
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
as Max Rutgers
1958
To Find a Man
as Dr. Hargrove
1972
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2018
A Life of Her Own
as Tom Caraway
1950
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
as Billy Joe Davis
1970
Up Front
as Willie
1951
Back at the Front
as Willie
1952
Terror at Alcatraz
as Johnson
1982
TV Appearances
Murder, She Wrote
as Josh Corbin
1984
Burke's Law
as Leander Clement
1963
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
Best of the West
as Jerome Kullens
1981
Baretta
1975
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
General Electric Theater
as John Emmet Owens
1953
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Albert Pelham
1955
Your Show of Shows
1950
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Tom Howard
1950