Biography: life and films
Tom Hanks is an American actor, film director, screenwriter and producer whose birth name is Thomas Jeffrey Hanks. He was born in Concord, California, USA on 9th July 1956.His best films as an actor include Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia (1993), Robert Zemeckis's Forrest Gump (1994), Ron Howard's Apollo 13 (1995), Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) and John Lasseter's comedy Toy Story 2 (1999), and whose best work as a film director include That Thing You Do! (1996) and Larry Crowne (2011).
Tom Hanks has so far appeared in 49 films, scripted 2 films and directed 2 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Ron Howard (4 films), Steven Spielberg (3), Robert Zemeckis (3), John Lasseter (3), Penny Marshall (2) and Nora Ephron (2).
His most frequent genres include: comedy (17 films), drama (14), comedy-drama (12), comedy-romance (11), Thriller (8), romance (7), Fantasy (7), Animation (6), crime-thriller (5), Biography (5), history (3), comedy-thriller (3), Documentary (3), War (2) and Horror (2).
Our average rating for Tom Hanks over all films is: 3.3
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer
He Knows You're Alone (1980) [a]
Bachelor Party (1984) [a]
Splash (1984) [a]
The Man with One Red Shoe (1985) [a]
Volunteers (1985) [a]
Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986) [a]
Nothing in Common (1986) [a]
The Money Pit (1986) [a]
Dragnet (1987) [a]
Big (1988) [a]
Punchline (1988) [a]
The 'burbs (1989) [a]
Turner & Hooch (1989) [a]
Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) [a]
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) [a]
A League of Their Own (1992) [a]
Philadelphia (1993) [a]
Sleepless in Seattle (1993) [a]
Forrest Gump (1994) [a]
Apollo 13 (1995) [a]
The Celluloid Closet (1995) [a]
Toy Story (1995) [a]
That Thing You Do! (1996) [a,d,w]
Return with Honor (1998) [a]
Saving Private Ryan (1998) [a]
You've Got Mail (1998) [a]
The Green Mile (1999) [a]
Toy Story 2 (1999) [a]
Cast Away (2000) [a]
Catch Me If You Can (2002) [a]
Road to Perdition (2002) [a]
Elvis Has Left the Building (2004) [a]
The Ladykillers (2004) [a]
The Polar Express (2004) [a]
The Terminal (2004) [a]
Cars (2006) [a]
The Da Vinci Code (2006) [a]
The Queen (2006) [a]
The Sci-Fi Boys (2006) [a]
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) [a]
The Simpsons Movie (2007) [a]
The Great Buck Howard (2008) [a]
Angels & Demons (2009) [a]
Toy Story 3 (2010) [a]
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) [a]
Larry Crowne (2011) [a,d,w]
Cloud Atlas (2012) [a]
Saving Mr. Banks (2013) [a]
Ithaca (2015) [a]
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