Tom Hanks
Acting
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.
Born: July 9, 1956
Place of Birth: Concord, California, USA
Known For
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
The Last Mile
It's been 25 years since “Philadelphia” premiered, and since then, we've come a long way in the fight to end AIDS. In partnership with Coca Cola and RED, "The Last Mile" explores how far we've come.
Close Up
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shooting) in Napoli Film Festival and in 2013 at the Art Institute of California in Santa Ana. An anthropological experiment on the facial expressions of famous people showing the human being aspect. All original footage from Mel Gibson to Peter Jackson, from George Lucas to Catherine Deneuve, from Michael Douglas to Giancarlo Giannini and many others.
We Are Cinema
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Bambi
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
The Concert for Valor
A live HBO concert honoring United States veterans in Washington DC.
The Grammys
An awards show honoring the achievements of the members of the professional music recording industry. The members of the Recording Academy vote on who they think is most deserving of an award in 108 categories as specified by the academy.
The Green Mile
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
Forrest Gump
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
1883
Follow the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. A stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land — Montana.
Filmography
as Woody (voice)
as Self - Interviewee
as voice
as Self - Actor, Splash
as Leland
as Self
as Hank, Video Store Owner
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Richard
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Narrator
as Stanley Zak
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Actor
as Narrator (voice)
as Self - ‘Colonel Tom Parker’
as Otto Anderson
as Geppetto
as Colonel Tom Parker
as Woody (voice) (archive footage)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as General George Meade
as Self (archive footage)
as Finch
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Host
as Self - Guest
as Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd
as Self
as Commander Krause
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Fred Rogers
as Woody (voice)
as Self
as Will Mayo (voice)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Ben Bradlee
as David S. Pumpkins (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Eamon Bailey
as Robert Langdon
as Waitstill Sharp (voice)
as Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger
as Alan Clay
as Mr. Macauley
as James B. Donovan
as Security Guard (voice) (uncredited)
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Woody (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Self - Actor
as Self
as Walt Disney
as Woody (Voice)
as Captain Richard Phillips
as Self - Narrator
as Self
as Self
as Dr. Henry Goose / Hotel Manager / Isaac Sachs / Dermot Hoggins / Cavendish Look-a-Like Actor / Zachry
as Self (archive footage)
as Woody (voice)
as Cleveland Carr (voice)
as Voice Actor (voice)
as Self - Narrator
as (archive footage)
as Thomas Schell
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
as Woody (voice)
as Reader / Roy Olmstead (voice)
as Narrator
as Larry Crowne
as Woody (voice)
as Self
as Woody (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator
as Allen Bauer (archive footage)
as Robert Langdon
as Self / Narrator (voice)
as Mr. Gable
as Charlie Wilson
as Narrator / Al McIntosh (voice)
as Self - Woody / Scott Turner
as Tom Hanks (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Tom Hanks
as Self (archive footage)
as Woody Car (voice)
as Robert Langdon
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Hero Boy (Adult)/ Father / Conductor / Hobo / Scrooge / Santa Claus
as Self
as Mailbox-Elvis
as Viktor Navorski
as Self / Allen Bauer
as Professor G.H. Dorr
as Horatio Nelson Jackson (voice)
as Mountie
as Self
as Self - Interviewee
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Carl Hanratty
as Tom Hanks
as Michael Sullivan
as Self
as Chuck Noland
as Narrator
as Self / Paul Edgecomb
as Paul Edgecomb
as Woody (voice)
as Narrator
as Joe Fox
as Captain Miller
as Jean-Luc Despont
as Host
as Self
as Self
as Self
as self
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self
as Mr. White
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Woody (voice)
as Tom Hanks
as Jim Lovell
as Self
as Baxter (archive footage)
as Forrest Gump
as Andrew Beckett
as Self - Guest
as Trouble Boy #1
as Sam Baldwin
as Jimmy Dugan
as Older Mike (uncredited)
as Sherman McCoy
as Joe Banks
as Tom Hanks (voice)
as Scott Turner
as Baxter (segment "None But the Lonely Heart")
as Ray Peterson
as Steven Gold
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Josh Baskin
as Pep Streebeck
as David
as David Basner
as Walter Fielding, Jr.
as Lawrence Whatley Bourne III
as Richard
as Rick Gassko
as Allen Bauer
as Robbie Wheeling
as Ned Donnelly
as Self
as Self
as Kip Wilson / Buffy
as Elliot
as Gordon
as Rick Martin
as Self - Host
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
as Self - Presenter
as Self
as Woody (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Self - Nominee
as Self - Audience Member
as Self - Presenter
as Self
as Self - Presenter / Nominee