About
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
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood2018 · Self (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone2016 · Richard Sherman (archive footage)
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde2015 · Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths1990 · (archive footage)
Easy Money1983 · Scrappleton
Terror at Alcatraz1982 · Johnson
Tropic of Desire1979 · Hadley Crabtree
The Return of Mod Squad1979 · Cook
Promise Him Anything1975 · Judge
The Great Gatsby1974 · Mourner (uncredited)
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead1974 · Lubow
They Only Kill Their Masters1972 · Walter
To Find a Man1972 · Dr. Hargrove
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?1970 · Billy Joe Davis
The World of Abbott and Costello1965 · Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
Marilyn1963 · archive footage
State Fair1962 · Abel Frake
Tender Is the Night1962 · Abe North
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed1958 · Max Rutgers
The Girl Can't Help It1956 · Tom Miller