Tom Ewell

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 Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Murder, She Wrote

The Mike Douglas Show

Robert Montgomery Presents

The Merv Griffin Show

What's My Line?

Burke's Law

Fantasy Island

All Movies (35)

• Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone2016 · as Richard Sherman (archive footage)
• Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths1990 · as (archive footage)
• Easy Money1983 · as Scrappleton
• Terror at Alcatraz1982 · as Johnson
• Tropic of Desire1979 · as Hadley Crabtree
• The Return of Mod Squad1979 · as Cook
• Promise Him Anything1975 · as Judge
• The Great Gatsby1974 · as Mourner (uncredited)
• The Spy Who Returned from the Dead1974 · as Lubow
• They Only Kill Their Masters1972 · as Walter
• To Find a Man1972 · as Dr. Hargrove
• Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?1970 · as Billy Joe Davis
• The World of Abbott and Costello1965 · as Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
• Marilyn1963 · as archive footage
• State Fair1962 · as Abel Frake
• Tender Is the Night1962 · as Abe North
• A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed1958 · as Max Rutgers
• The Girl Can't Help It1956 · as Tom Miller
• The Great American Pastime1956 · as Bruce Hallerton
• The Lieutenant Wore Skirts1956 · as Gregory Whitcomb
• The Seven Year Itch1955 · as Richard Sherman
• Back at the Front1952 · as Willie
• Lost in Alaska1952 · as Nugget Joe McDermott
• Finders Keepers1952 · as Tiger Kipps
• Up Front1951 · as Willie
• Mr. Music1950 · as 'Cupcake' Haggerty
• American Guerrilla in the Philippines1950 · as Jim Mitchell
• A Life of Her Own1950 · as Tom Caraway
• Adam's Rib1949 · as Warren Attinger
• Concerning a Woman of Sin1949
• Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful1947
• Desert Bandit1941 · as Texas Ranger Ordway
• They Knew What They Wanted1940 · as New Hired Hand (uncredited)

All TV Shows (25)

• Murder, She Wrote1984 · as Josh Corbin
• Best of the West1981 · as Jerome Kullens
• Trapper John, M.D.1979
• Eischied1979
• Flying High1978
• Taxi1978 · as Dr. Richmond
• Fantasy Island1978 · as Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
• Baretta1975
• Temperatures Rising1972 · as Harry Butler
• Alias Smith and Jones1971
• The Name of the Game1968 · as District Attorney Simpson
• Burke's Law1963 · as Leander Clement
• The Merv Griffin Show1962 · as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self
• The Tom Ewell Show1960
• The Dinah Shore Chevy Show1956 · as Self
• Playwrights '561955
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955 · as Albert Pelham
• General Electric Theater1953 · as John Emmet Owens
• Your Show of Shows1950
• What's My Line?1950 · as Self
• Robert Montgomery Presents1950 · as Tom Howard
• Lights Out1949
• Studio One1948 · as Willie Mason