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
