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Tom Hanks at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Tom Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker who has had an extensive career in film, television and stage. Hanks made his professional acting debut on stage, playing Grumio in a 1977 Great Lakes Theater production of The Taming of the Shrew. [1]
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon. [2] Hanks is ranked as the fourth-highest-grossing American film actor.
Cosby played Guy Hanks, a New York City Police Department criminalist, who retired from the police force after winning $44 million in the lottery.. His peaceful retirement is frequently interrupted by his former colleagues, Detective Adam Sully (James Naughton) and medical examiner John Chapman (Robert Stanton), who ask him to consult on tough cases.
That Thing You Do! is a 1996 American musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Tom Hanks, in his feature writing and directorial debut.Set in 1960s rock and roll culture, it chronicles the rise and fall of a fictional one-hit wonder pop band and stars Tom Everett Scott in his film debut along with Johnathon Schaech, Steve Zahn, and Ethan Embry as the band's members, with Liv Tyler and ...
Lucky Guy is a play by Nora Ephron that premiered in 2013, the year after her death. It was Ephron's final work and marked Tom Hanks 's Broadway debut, in which he earned a Theatre World Award . It depicts the story of journalist Mike McAlary beginning in 1985 and ending with his death at the age of 41 in 1998.
Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy.Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter who is stranded on a desert island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home.
A Man Called Otto is a 2022 American comedy-drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by David Magee.It is a remake of the 2015 Swedish film A Man Called Ove, which was based on the 2012 novel of the same name by Fredrik Backman.
Dante referred to Hanks as "the reigning everyman, a guy that everybody can identify with", [4] comparing him to James Stewart. [4] Brezner echoed this sentiment, saying "Hanks is an actor capable of acting funny rather than funny acting.