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.

Filmography

• 2016All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone — Richard Sherman (archive footage)
• Murder, She Wrote — Josh Corbin
• 1983Easy Money — Scrappleton
• 1982Terror at Alcatraz — Johnson
• Best of the West — Jerome Kullens
• Eischied
• 1979The Return of Mod Squad — Cook
• Trapper John, M.D.
• 1979Tropic of Desire — Hadley Crabtree
• Fantasy Island — Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan
• Flying High
• Taxi — Dr. Richmond
• Baretta — Billy Truman
• 1975Promise Him Anything — Judge
• 1974The Great Gatsby — Mourner (uncredited)
• 1974The Spy Who Returned from the Dead — Lubow
• Temperatures Rising — Harry Butler
• 1972They Only Kill Their Masters — Walter
• 1972To Find a Man — Dr. Hargrove
• Alias Smith and Jones
• 1970Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? — Billy Joe Davis
• The Name of the Game — District Attorney Simpson
• 1965The World of Abbott and Costello — Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
• Burke's Law — Leander Clement
• 1963Marilyn — archive footage
• 1962State Fair — Abel Frake
• 1962Tender Is the Night — Abe North
• The Tom Ewell Show
• 1958A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed — Max Rutgers
• 1956The Girl Can't Help It — Tom Miller
• 1956The Great American Pastime — Bruce Hallerton
• 1956The Lieutenant Wore Skirts — Gregory Whitcomb
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Albert Pelham
• Playwrights '56
• 1955The Seven Year Itch — Richard Sherman
• General Electric Theater — John Emmet Owens
• 1952Back at the Front — Willie
• 1952Finders Keepers — Tiger Kipps
• 1952Lost in Alaska — Nugget Joe McDermott
• 1951Up Front — Willie
• 1950A Life of Her Own — Tom Caraway
• 1950American Guerrilla in the Philippines — Jim Mitchell
• 1950Mr. Music — 'Cupcake' Haggerty
• Robert Montgomery Presents — Tom Howard
• Your Show of Shows
• 1949Adam's Rib — Warren Attinger
• 1949Concerning a Woman of Sin
• Lights Out
• Studio One — Willie Mason
• 1947Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
• 1941Desert Bandit — Texas Ranger Ordway
• 1940They Knew What They Wanted — New Hired Hand (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2018Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde — Self (archive footage)
• 1990Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• The Dinah Shore Chevy Show — Self
• What's My Line? — Self