Tom Ewell
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
as Richard Sherman
The Great Gatsby (1974)
as Mourner (uncredited)
Tropic of Desire (1979)
as Hadley Crabtree
Adam's Rib (1949)
as Warren Attinger
The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
as Tom Miller
They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
as Walter
Easy Money (1983)
as Scrappleton
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)
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)
as Jim Mitchell
Back at the Front (1952)
as Willie
They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
as New Hired Hand (uncredited)
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)
as Billy Joe Davis
Tender Is the Night (1962)
as Abe North
A Life of Her Own (1950)
as Tom Caraway
The Return of Mod Squad (1979)
as Cook
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)
as Gregory Whitcomb
State Fair (1962)
as Abel Frake
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
Lost in Alaska (1952)
as Nugget Joe McDermott
To Find a Man (1972)
as Dr. Hargrove
The Great American Pastime (1956)
as Bruce Hallerton
Mr. Music (1950)
as 'Cupcake' Haggerty
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990)
as Self
The World of Abbott and Costello (1965)
as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958)
as Max Rutgers
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead (1974)
as Lubow
Marilyn (1963)
as archive footage
Concerning a Woman of Sin (1949)
Actor
Finders Keepers (1952)
as Tiger Kipps
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful (1947)
Actor
Terror at Alcatraz (1982)
as Johnson
Promise Him Anything (1975)
as Judge
Up Front (1951)
as Willie
Desert Bandit (1941)
as Texas Ranger Ordway