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