7.0
Movie
Acting
Tom Ewell
- Born
- Died
- (aged 85)
- Birthplace
- Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
- Credits
- 60 titles
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.
Signature work
Known For
7.0
Movie
7.5
TV
Murder, She Wrote
7.1
Movie
Adam's Rib
7.8
TV
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.3
TV
Taxi
6.0
Movie
Easy Money
6.5
TV
Fantasy Island
6.3
Movie
The Girl Can't Help It
6.5
TV
Baretta
7.0
TV
Alias Smith and Jones
6.2
Movie
Lost in Alaska
6.6
TV
Trapper John, M.D.
5.5
Movie
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
5.2
Movie
A Life of Her Own
4.9
Movie
State Fair
5.1
Movie
They Only Kill Their Masters
5.4
TV
Studio One
7.0
TV
The Name of the Game
Acting credits 60
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood Film | Self (archive footage) |
| 2016 | All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone Film | Richard Sherman (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde Film | Self (archive footage) |
| 1990 | Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths Film | Self |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote TV | Josh Corbin (1 ep) |
| 1983 | Easy Money Film | Scrappleton |
| 1982 | Terror at Alcatraz Film | Johnson |
| 1981 | Best of the West TV | Jerome Kullens (22 ep) |
| 1979 | Trapper John, M.D. TV | (1 ep) |
| 1979 | Eischied TV | (1 ep) |
| 1979 | Tropic of Desire Film | Hadley Crabtree |
| 1979 | The Return of Mod Squad Film | Cook |
| 1978 | Flying High TV | (1 ep) |
| 1978 | Taxi TV | Dr. Richmond (1 ep) |
| 1978 | Fantasy Island TV | Burt 'Fingers' Lonegan (1 ep) |
| 1975 | Promise Him Anything Film | Judge |
| 1975 | Baretta TV | Billy Truman (2 ep) |
| 1974 | The Great Gatsby Film | Mourner (uncredited) |
| 1974 | The Spy Who Returned from the Dead Film | Lubow |
| 1972 | They Only Kill Their Masters Film | Walter |
| 1972 | Temperatures Rising TV | Harry Butler (1 ep) |
| 1972 | To Find a Man Film | Dr. Hargrove |
| 1971 | Alias Smith and Jones TV | (1 ep) |
| 1970 | Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? Film | Billy Joe Davis |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game TV | District Attorney Simpson (1 ep) |
| 1965 | The World of Abbott and Costello Film | Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage) |
| 1963 | Burke's Law TV | Leander Clement (1 ep) |
| 1963 | Marilyn Film | archive footage |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show TV | Self (7 ep) |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV | Self (1 ep) |
| 1962 | State Fair Film | Abel Frake |
| 1962 | Tender Is the Night Film | Abe North |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show TV | Self (1 ep) |
| 1960 | The Tom Ewell Show TV | (32 ep) |
| 1958 | A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed Film | Max Rutgers |
| 1956 | The Girl Can't Help It Film | Tom Miller |
| 1956 | The Great American Pastime Film | Bruce Hallerton |
| 1956 | The Dinah Shore Chevy Show TV | Self (2 ep) |
| 1956 | The Lieutenant Wore Skirts Film | Gregory Whitcomb |
| 1955 | Playwrights '56 TV | (1 ep) |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV | Albert Pelham (1 ep) |
| 1955 | The Seven Year Itch Film | Richard Sherman |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater TV | John Emmet Owens (1 ep) |
| 1952 | Back at the Front Film | Willie |
| 1952 | Lost in Alaska Film | Nugget Joe McDermott |
| 1952 | Finders Keepers Film | Tiger Kipps |
| 1951 | Up Front Film | Willie |
| 1950 | Mr. Music Film | 'Cupcake' Haggerty |
| 1950 | American Guerrilla in the Philippines Film | Jim Mitchell |
| 1950 | A Life of Her Own Film | Tom Caraway |
| 1950 | Your Show of Shows TV | (2 ep) |
| 1950 | What's My Line? TV | Self (1 ep) |
| 1950 | Robert Montgomery Presents TV | Tom Howard (1 ep) |
| 1949 | Adam's Rib Film | Warren Attinger |
| 1949 | Lights Out TV | (1 ep) |
| 1949 | Concerning a Woman of Sin Film | |
| 1948 | Studio One TV | Willie Mason (1 ep) |
| 1947 | Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful Film | |
| 1941 | Desert Bandit Film | Texas Ranger Ordway |
| 1940 | They Knew What They Wanted Film | New Hired Hand (uncredited) |