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.
Movies
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)
Shows
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