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Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor, producer, writer and director. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies before achieving success as a dramatic actor portraying several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title role in... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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Soviet war in Afghanistan in popular culture Tom Hanks plays the role of Congressman Wilson.

Tom Hanks The next year Hanks landed a lead role on the ABC television pilot of Bosom Buddies, playing the role of Kip Wilson.

Riverside Shakespeare Company In this production Tom Hanks played the lead role of the scoundrel Callimaco - in his first and only stage production in New York City.

When a Man Loves a Woman (film) The role played by Garcia was originally intended to be played by Tom Hanks.

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Toy Story Lasseter always wanted Tom Hanks to play the character of Woody.

Forrest Gump "Tom Hanks plays the title character, an amiable dunce who is far too smart to embrace the lethal values of the 1960s.

Sheriff Woody John Lasseter always wanted Tom Hanks to play the character of Woody.

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David Moscow His first major role was as the young Josh in the 1988 film Big, in which his character was magically transformed into an adult, played by Tom Hanks.

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Forrest Gump "Tom Hanks plays the title character, an amiable dunce who is far too smart to embrace the lethal values of the 1960s.

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Forrest Gump It is mentioned Hanks plays Gump, and Forrest seems to have a positive look on the film.

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The Da Vinci Code (film) In the film's opening sequence, Robert Langdon, played by Tom Hanks, is taken by French police to the Louvre, where a dead body has been discovered.

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Celebrity Jeopardy! (Saturday Night Live) In the fourteenth sketch, Tom Hanks played an incompetent and buffoonish version of himself.

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Big piano In a demonstration , Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia play Heart and Soul and Chopsticks.

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Tom Hanks In a play on the expression "art imitating life", Hanks played an on screen dad to a young man (Hanks's real-life son, Colin Hanks) who chooses to follow in the footsteps of a fading magician (John Malkovich) in 2008's The Great Buck Howard.

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Dragnet (1987 film) Acting as both a parody and homage to the long-running Dragnet television series, Aykroyd plays Joe Friday (nephew of the late Joe Friday from the series) while Hanks plays Pep Streebeck, his new partner.

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Dragnet (1987 film) Acting as both a parody and homage to the long-running Dragnet television series, Aykroyd plays Joe Friday (nephew of the late Joe Friday from the series) while Hanks plays Pep Streebeck, his new partner.

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Every Time We Say Goodbye (film) Hanks plays a gentile American in the Royal Air Force, stationed in Jerusalem, who falls in love with a girl from a Sephardic Jewish family.

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Big piano In a demonstration , Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia play Heart and Soul and Chopsticks.

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Barry Sobel According to Sobel, Hanks caught his act which stylistically was considered 'dangerous' as was the character Hanks was to play in Punchline.

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Fatal Attraction Jonah Baldwin wants his widowed father Sam, played by Tom Hanks, to go to New York to meet Annie (Meg Ryan), but Sam refuses because he has weekend plans with another woman (whom Jonah dislikes).

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Fatal Attraction Jonah Baldwin wants his widowed father Sam, played by Tom Hanks, to go to New York to meet Annie (Meg Ryan), but Sam refuses because he has weekend plans with another woman (whom Jonah dislikes).

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Short-lived recurring characters on Saturday Night Live Tom Hanks played Mr. Short-Term Memory on occasion when he would host SNL.

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Short-lived recurring characters on Saturday Night Live This series of sketches showed a group of Seinfeld-esque stand-up comedians played by Tom Hanks, Dennis Miller (in one of his rare, non-Weekend Update performances), Jon Lovitz, and (originally) Damon Wayans, as seen backstage at a comedy club.

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Short-lived recurring characters on Saturday Night Live This series of sketches showed a group of Seinfeld-esque stand-up comedians played by Tom Hanks, Dennis Miller (in one of his rare, non-Weekend Update performances), Jon Lovitz, and (originally) Damon Wayans, as seen backstage at a comedy club.

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Sloop John B In the film Forrest Gump, based on Winston Groom's novel, the song can be heard in the background playing on a radio as Lieutenant Dan, played by Gary Sinise, finishes his very cynical, revelatory lecture to Forrest and Bubba, played by Tom Hanks and Mykelti Williamson, respectively.

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Big piano In a demonstration , Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia play Heart and Soul and Chopsticks.

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Jimmy Brogan Brogan also appeared in the movie Punchline with Tom Hanks and Sally Fields playing the younger cleargyman and Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant! with Matt Damon as psychiatrist, Dr. Miller.

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Every Time We Say Goodbye (film) Hanks plays a gentile American in the Royal Air Force, stationed in Jerusalem, who falls in love with a girl from a Sephardic Jewish family.

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Tallahassee in popular culture Paul Edgecomb played by Tom Hanks says, "Yeah, that's right.

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Where the Wild Things Are (film) The film was co-produced by actor Tom Hanks through his production company Playtone and made on an estimated budget of around $100,000,000.

Tom Hanks Later in 2006, Hanks produced the British film Starter for Ten, a comedy based on working class students attempting to win University Challenge.

Tom Hanks Hanks is producer of the Spike Jonze film Where The Wild Things Are, based on the children's book by Maurice Sendak.

Don Holleder A film of the story is being produced by Tom Hanks.

My Life in Ruins The film was co-produced by Gary Goetzman and Tom Hanks, and is directed by Donald Petrie.

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Band of Brothers (TV miniseries) Tom Hanks, co-executive producer of the miniseries, explained that they needed a central character to tie the story together, and felt that Damian Lewis was best for the role.

Battle of Iwo Jima The 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, will have an episode related to the battle of Iwo Jima.

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Sean McGinly His film Two Days, starring Paul Rudd and Donal Logue piqued the interest of Tom Hanks, who then agreed to produce McGinly's latest project, The Great Buck Howard through his Playtone production company.

Rob Lane (film composer) With Paul Giamatti in the title role, the project was co-produced by Tom Hanks and Playtone Pictures.

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Reggie Nadelson Tom Hanks has optioned Nadelson's Dean Reed biography Comrade Rockstar and is planning to produce a movie on Reed's life.

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Richard Speight, Jr. Speight played Sgt. Warren "Skip" Muck in the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning World War II miniseries Band of Brothers, produced for HBO by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.

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Tom Hanks In 2001, Hanks helped direct and produce the acclaimed HBO mini-series Band of Brothers.

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Tom Hanks Later in 2006, Hanks produced the British film Starter for Ten, a comedy based on working class students attempting to win University Challenge.

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The Pacific (miniseries) The Pacific is being produced by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman in association with HBO Films, Playtone, Dreamworks, and Seven Network.

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Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D Tom Hanks is the narrator, co-writer and co-producer.

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Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D Tom Hanks is the narrator, co-writer and co-producer.

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Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D Tom Hanks is the narrator, co-writer and co-producer.

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Tom Hanks In addition, Hanks co-wrote and co-produced Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, an IMAX film about the moon landings.

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Bill Haley In March 2005, the British network Sky TV reported that Tom Hanks was planning to produce a biopic on the life of Bill Haley, with production tentatively scheduled to begin in 2006.

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Becky Stark In 2008 Stark wrote the Songs of the Believers for the upcoming film City of Ember starring Bill Murray, directed by Gil Kenan and produced by Tom Hanks.

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Debra Jo Rupp In 1998, she began her role as Kitty Forman in the comedy series, That '70s Show, and portrayed Marilyn See, wife of astronaut Elliott See, in Episode #11 of the Emmy Award-winning television mini-series From the Earth to the Moon, produced by Tom Hanks and directed by Sally Field.

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Apollo 13 The mural was later purchased by actor Tom Hanks, who portrayed Lovell in the movie Apollo 13, and now is on the wall of a restaurant in Chicago owned by Lovell's son.

Jim Lovell In 1995, actor Tom Hanks portrayed Lovell in the hit movie Apollo 13, based on Lovell's book Lost Moon.

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Charles Wilson (Texas politician) In the 2007 film version of the book, actor Tom Hanks portrayed Wilson.

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The 'Burbs Dante, Brezner and Finnell agreed that Tom Hanks would be the most suitable actor to portray the harried Ray Peterson, a conservative man who tries to introduce excitement into his life by investigating the activities of his strange neighbors.

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Robert Langdon Tom Hanks portrayed Robert Langdon in the 2006 film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, and reprised the role in the 2009 film adaptation of Angels & Demons.

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The 'Burbs Dante, Brezner and Finnell agreed that Tom Hanks would be the most suitable actor to portray the harried Ray Peterson, a conservative man who tries to introduce excitement into his life by investigating the activities of his strange neighbors.

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Short-lived recurring characters on Saturday Night Live In this series of memorable sketches, Tom Hanks and Jon Lovitz portray a pair of hapless bachelors who suavely attempt to hit on every woman that walks by.

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Forrest Gump (character) Gump was portrayed as a child by Michael Conner Humphreys and portrayed as an adult by Tom Hanks, who won an Academy Award for the role.

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Major Matt Mason As of March, 2009, there are reports that Tom Hanks is planning to portray Matt Mason in a feature film, possibly as both a human and a toy version, the latter presumably a CGI animation.

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Riverside Shakespeare Company The leather masks designed by Stein were often used inventively to comic effect, with actors sometimes removing them for an inner monologue, as in Hanks' portrayal of Callimaco, in which he conversed to himself while holding his quarter mask to one side.

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Mermaid problem A prominent example of this is the Touchstone Pictures film Splash where the Mermaid character Madison, portrayed by Daryl Hannah, transforms into human form and sustains a romantic and sexual relationship with Allen Bauer, portrayed by Tom Hanks, while retaining many of her undersea habits and mannerisms.

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    Tom Hanks

    Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor, producer, writer and director. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title role in Forrest Gump, Commander James A. Lovell in Apollo 13, Captain John H. Miller in Saving Private Ryan, Sheriff Woody in Disney/Pixar's Toy Story, and Chuck Noland in Cast Away.
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    Hanks

    Camille Hanks (born 1964), wife of Bill Cosby ... Tom Hanks (born 1956), American two-time Academy Award-winning film actor
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    Tom (name)

    Tom is a diminutive of the given names Thomas and Tomás. ... Tom Hanks, American film actor
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    Colin Hanks

    Colin Lewes Hanks (born November 24, 1977) is an American actor. ... He is also known for playing a character who is the fictional son of a character played by Hanks's real-life father, multiple Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks, in The Great Buck Howard.
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    List of comedians

    A comedian is one who entertains through comedy, such as jokes and other forms of humour. ... Tom Hanks (1956–)
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    List of The Love Boat guest stars

    This is a list of guest stars on the television series The Love Boat. ... Tom Hanks
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    List of dropouts

    This is a list of people who dropped out of high school or college. ... Tom Hanks
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    People's Choice Awards (Australia)

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    Forrest Gump

    Forrest Gump may refer to: ... Forrest Gump, 1994 feature film starring Tom Hanks, based on the 1986 novel
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    Sean McGinly

    Sean McGinly is an American film director and screenwriter. His film Two Days, starring Paul Rudd and Donal Logue piqued the interest of Tom Hanks, who then agreed to produce McGinly's latest project, The Great Buck Howard through his Playtone production company.

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