Tom Ewell
Department: Acting
Biography
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
The Seven Year Itch
1955
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990
Finders Keepers
1952
Adam's Rib
1949
State Fair
1962
The Girl Can't Help It
1956
They Only Kill Their Masters
1972
Easy Money
1983
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950
The Great American Pastime
1956
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
1956
Mr. Music
1950
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958
To Find a Man
1972
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
A Life of Her Own
1950
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970
Up Front
1951
Back at the Front
1952
Terror at Alcatraz
1982
Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
1947
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
1974
Tropic of Desire
1979
They Knew What They Wanted
1940
Desert Bandit
1941
Promise Him Anything
1975
Lost in Alaska
1952
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
The Return of Mod Squad
1979
Tender Is the Night
1962
The World of Abbott and Costello
1965
Concerning a Woman of Sin
1949
The Great Gatsby
1974
Marilyn
1963
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Burke's Law
1963
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Best of the West
1981
Baretta
1975
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
General Electric Theater
1953
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Your Show of Shows
1950
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Playwrights '56
1955
Eischied
1979
Lights Out
1949
Flying High
1978
The Tom Ewell Show
1960
Taxi
1978
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Studio One
1948
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Temperatures Rising
1972
What's My Line?
1950
The Name of the Game
1968
Fantasy Island
1978