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Tom Hanks
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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.
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KinoChain journeys
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Storming the Deck
From the Bounty to the Caine, mutiny films have always been about more than shipboard insurrection. This chain charts how cinematic rebellions at sea reflect th...
7 films
The University of British Cinema
From the dreaming spires of Cambridge to the redbrick campuses of the provinces, a journey through the British university film and what it reveals about class,...
8 films
Wild Hearts: Feral Children and the Call of the Wild
From the forests of 18th-century France to the animated jungles of Mowgli, a journey through cinema's feral children and their quest for belonging.
7 films
Ghosts in the Machine
From a stuntman's final role to a star's digital encore, these eight films trace cinema's long affair with performing from beyond the grave.
8 films
The Long Goodbye to the Small Screen
A journey through the films that turned television's intimate glow into cinema's grand spectacle, and back again.
6 films
Growing Pains: Sequels That Leap Through Time
From a Parisian afternoon to a boxing ring, these sequels skip years ahead and find their characters changed, challenged, and achingly familiar. A journey throu...
6 films
When the Sequel Outshines the Original
From gritty crime epics to mind-bending sci-fi, these sequels didn't just continue stories, they redefined them. Here's a chain of films that prove the second (...
8 films
Escapes from Broken Realities
A journey through films where children and the childlike build imaginative refuges from fractured worlds, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Terry Gilliam...
8 films
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Toy Story 5
2026 · Woody (voice)
World War II with Tom Hanks
2026 · Self - Presenter
Marty, Life Is Short
2026 · Self
The Americas
2025 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Here
2024 · Richard
Asteroid City
2023 · Stanley Zak
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Commitment to Life
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Elvis
2022 · Colonel Tom Parker
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Greyhound
2020 · Commander Krause
Toy Story 4
2019 · Woody (voice)
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018 · Self (archive footage)
The Post
2017 · Ben Bradlee
Spielberg
2017 · Self
The Nineties
2017
The Circle
2017 · Eamon Bailey
Inferno
2016 · Robert Langdon
Bridge of Spies
2015 · James B. Donovan
The Seventies
2015 · Self
The Sixties
2014 · Self
Saving Mr. Banks
2013 · Walt Disney
Toy Story of Terror!
2013 · Woody (Voice)
Captain Phillips
2013 · Captain Richard Phillips
Cloud Atlas
2012 · Dr. Henry Goose / Hotel Manager / Isaac Sachs / Dermot Hoggins / Cavendish Look-a-Like Actor / Zachry
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011 · Thomas Schell
Toy Story 3
2010 · Woody (voice)
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
2009 · Host
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009
Angels & Demons
2009 · Robert Langdon
The War
2007 · Narrator / Al McIntosh (voice)
The Pixar Story
2007 · Self - Woody / Scott Turner
The Simpsons Movie
2007 · Tom Hanks (voice)
The Da Vinci Code
2006 · Robert Langdon
The Polar Express
2004 · Hero Boy (Adult)/ Father / Conductor / Hobo / Scrooge / Santa Claus
The Terminal
2004 · Viktor Navorski
Catch Me If You Can
2002 · Carl Hanratty
Road to Perdition
2002 · Michael Sullivan
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
2001 · Self
Cast Away
2000 · Chuck Noland
The Green Mile
1999 · Paul Edgecomb
Toy Story 2
1999 · Woody (voice)
You've Got Mail
1998 · Joe Fox
Saving Private Ryan
1998 · Captain Miller
That Thing You Do!
1996 · Mr. White
Toy Story
1995 · Woody (voice)
Apollo 13
1995 · Jim Lovell
Forrest Gump
1994 · Forrest Gump
Sleepless in Seattle
1993 · Sam Baldwin
A League of Their Own
1992 · Jimmy Dugan
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990 · Sherman McCoy
Joe Versus the Volcano
1990 · Joe Banks
Turner & Hooch
1989 · Scott Turner
The 'Burbs
1989 · Ray Peterson
Big
1988 · Josh
Dragnet
1987 · Pep Streebeck
The Money Pit
1986 · Walter Fielding, Jr.
Splash
1984 · Allen Bauer
Wrote
Produced
The American Experiment
2026
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
2025
Masters of the Air
2024
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
2023
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018
The Nineties
2017
The Circle
2017
The Seventies
2015
Olive Kitteridge
2014
The Sixties
2014
Where the Wild Things Are
2009
Mamma Mia!
2008
Evan Almighty
2007
Starter for 10
2006
The Polar Express
2004
Band of Brothers
2001
Cast Away
2000