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.
Filmography
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
as Self (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
as Richard Sherman (archive footage)
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990
as (archive footage)
Easy Money
1983
as Scrappleton
Terror at Alcatraz
1982
as Johnson
Tropic of Desire
1979
as Hadley Crabtree
The Return of Mod Squad
1979
as Cook
Promise Him Anything
1975
as Judge
The Great Gatsby
1974
as Mourner (uncredited)
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
1974
as Lubow
They Only Kill Their Masters
1972
as Walter
To Find a Man
1972
as Dr. Hargrove
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970
as Billy Joe Davis
The World of Abbott and Costello
1965
as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
Marilyn
1963
as archive footage
State Fair
1962
as Abel Frake
Tender Is the Night
1962
as Abe North
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958
as Max Rutgers
The Girl Can't Help It
1956
as Tom Miller
The Great American Pastime
1956
as Bruce Hallerton
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
1956
as Gregory Whitcomb
The Seven Year Itch
1955
as Richard Sherman
Back at the Front
1952
as Willie