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 Girl Can't Help It (1956)
as Tom Miller
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
as Richard Sherman
The Great Gatsby (1974)
as Mourner (uncredited)
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
Mr. Music (1950)
as 'Cupcake' Haggerty
Adam's Rib (1949)
as Warren Attinger
They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
as Walter
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016)
as Richard Sherman (archive footage)
Easy Money (1983)
as Scrappleton
Lost in Alaska (1952)
as Nugget Joe McDermott
Tender Is the Night (1962)
as Abe North
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
The Great American Pastime (1956)
as Bruce Hallerton
A Life of Her Own (1950)
as Tom Caraway
Tropic of Desire (1979)
as Hadley Crabtree
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)
as Jim Mitchell
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990)
as Self
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)
as Billy Joe Davis
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958)
as Max Rutgers
The World of Abbott and Costello (1965)
as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)
as Gregory Whitcomb
They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
as New Hired Hand (uncredited)
The Return of Mod Squad (1979)
as Cook
State Fair (1962)
as Abel Frake
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead (1974)
as Lubow
To Find a Man (1972)
as Dr. Hargrove
Back at the Front (1952)
as Willie
Marilyn (1963)
as archive footage
Desert Bandit (1941)
as Texas Ranger Ordway
Terror at Alcatraz (1982)
as Johnson
Promise Him Anything (1975)
as Judge
Up Front (1951)
as Willie
Finders Keepers (1952)
as Tiger Kipps
Concerning a Woman of Sin (1949)
Actor
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful (1947)
Actor