Tom Hanks
Acting
- Born:
- 1956-07-09
- Place of birth:
- Concord, California, USA
Biography
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, Hanks is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is widely regarded as an American cultural icon. Hanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in the comedies Splash (1984) and Big (1988). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for starring as a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and a young man with below-average IQ in Forrest Gump (1994). Hanks collaborated with film director Steven Spielberg on five films: Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017), as well as the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, which launched him as a director, producer, and screenwriter. Hanks' other notable films include the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), and Cloud Atlas (2012); and the biographical dramas Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Captain Phillips (2013), Sully (2016), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). He has also appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon film series, and has voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Hanks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
The Comebacker
SCTV: The Greatest Show You've Never Heard Of
The Americas: A Wild 250th
We're Back! With Brian Williams
Toy Story 5
Toy Story: 30 Years and Beyond - A Special Edition of 20/20
Tom Hanks, un héros ordinaire
World War II with Tom Hanks
Marty, Life Is Short
The Shut Up Fairy
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
The American Revolution
John Candy: I Like Me
The Phoenician Scheme
Clint Eastwood : la légende
Freaky Tales
The Americas
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
Here
The Bloody Hundredth
Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20
The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks
Asteroid City
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
The 2010s
A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys
How to Rig an Election: The Racist History of the 1876 Presidential Contest
Commitment to Life
Just a Boy From Tupelo: Bringing Elvis to the Big Screen
A Man Called Otto
'Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
Bigger Than Life - The Making of Elvis
Pinocchio
Elvis
Exclusively Elvis: A Special Edition of 20/20
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
Halftime
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
1883
We Are Cinema
Finch
Last Meals
A Night at the Academy Museum
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
When Ruby Wax Met...
Die Tom Hanks Story
Celebrating America
Carina Bergfeldt
News of the World
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Greyhound
Reunited Apart
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
The Kelly Clarkson Show
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Toy Story 4
The Last Mile
The Mayo Clinic
Quincy
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Die Clint Eastwood Story
The Post
The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special
Spielberg
California Typewriter
The Nineties
The Fabulous Allan Carr
The Circle
Sully: Sully Sullenberger - The Man Behind the Miracle
Mike Nichols: An American Master
Tom Hanks: A League of His Own
Inferno
Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
Sully
There's Something About Romcoms
Maya & Marty
A Hologram for the King
A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
Ithaca
Bridge of Spies
The Walk
Everything Is Copy
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Seventies
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Misery Loves Comedy
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Walking the Mile
Toy Story That Time Forgot
The Concert for Valor
The Sixties
All In
The Dave Clark Five and Beyond: Glad All Over
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Late Night with Seth Meyers
And the Oscar Goes To...
Capturing Captain Phillips
The Making Of 'CAPTAIN PHILLIPS' Behind The Scenes
The Real Mary Poppins
Saving Mr. Banks
Toy Story of Terror!
Captain Phillips
Killing Lincoln
Radioman
Inventing David Geffen
Cloud Atlas
The Greatest Event in Television History
Close Up
Partysaurus Rex
Electric City
Steve Jobs: Visionary Genius
The Road We've Traveled
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Extraordinary Voyage
Small Fry
Prohibition
Boatlift
Larry Crowne
Hawaiian Vacation
OK! TV
Conan
Toy Story 3
Waking Sleeping Beauty
The Pacific
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
Beyond All Boundaries
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Angels & Demons
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
A Timeless Call
The Great Buck Howard
Charlie Wilson's War
The War
The Pixar Story
The Simpsons Movie
Spielberg on Spielberg
Making That Thing You Do
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
The Graham Norton Show
30 Rock
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Cars
The Da Vinci Code
Who Needs Sleep?
Earth to America
Live 8
The Colbert Report
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
Passport to the Universe
Pennis from Heaven
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Polar Express
Kulturplatz
Elvis Has Left the Building
People Like Us: Making 'Philadelphia'
The Terminal
Making a 'Splash'
The Ladykillers
Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Concert for George
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles
Celebrities Uncensored
Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Catch Me If You Can
Life with Bonnie
Road to Perdition
America | A Tribute to Heroes
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Primetime Glick
Rescued from the Closet
Cast Away
Shooting War
Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
Koschwitz
The Green Mile
Into the Breach: Saving Private Ryan
Toy Story 2
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
Return with Honor
You've Got Mail
Saving Private Ryan
From the Earth to the Moon
The Entertainment Biz
Parkinson
The Wonderful World of Disney
Sugar Shack Too!
The View
Scene by Scene
Taff
The Harryhausen Chronicles
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
That Thing You Do!
The Daily Show
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The Universal Story
The Celluloid Closet
Ruby Wax Meets
Die Harald Schmidt Show
The Making of Toy Story
Toy Story
The Naked Truth
Apollo 13
Sci-Fi Channel: The Making of Apollo 13
Inside the Actors Studio
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Vault of Horror I
Forrest Gump
Philadelphia
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Show with David Letterman
Fallen Angels
Sleepless in Seattle
A League of Their Own
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Radio Flyer
The Best of Disney: 50 Years of Magic
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Joe Versus the Volcano
The Simpsons
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
Turner & Hooch
Tales from the Crypt
The 'Burbs
Punchline
American Experience
This Morning
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Big
Dragnet
Every Time We Say Goodbye
Nothing in Common
The Money Pit
Volunteers
The Man with One Red Shoe
Jeopardy!
Bachelor Party
Splash
Mazes and Monsters
Family Ties
Entertainment Tonight
Wetten, dass..?
Bosom Buddies
He Knows You're Alone
Taxi
The Love Boat
Saturday Night Live
Happy Days
Film '72
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Grammys
The Oscars
Today
Bambi
Golden Globe Awards
Greyhound 2
Lincoln in the Bardo
Toy Story 6
Theo of Golden