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Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks

Acting · Production · Crew · Directing

Born July 9, 1956, Concord, California, USA

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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (135)
  • 2026Marty, Life Is Short — Self
  • 2026SCTV: The Greatest Show You've Never Heard Of — Self
  • 2026Tom Hanks, un héros ordinaire — Self (archive footage)
  • 2026Toy Story: 30 Years and Beyond - A Special Edition of 20/20 — Self
  • We're Back! With Brian Williams — Self - Guest
  • World War II with Tom Hanks — Self - Presenter
  • 2025Clint Eastwood : la légende — Self
  • SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night — Self
  • 2025SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — Self
  • The Americas — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2025What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas — Self - Interviewee
  • 2023A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys — Self
  • 2023Commitment to Life — Self (archive footage)
  • 2023Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20 — Self
  • 2023Just a Boy From Tupelo: Bringing Elvis to the Big Screen — Self - ‘Colonel Tom Parker’
  • 2023Tom Hanks: The Nomad — Self (archive footage)
  • 2022Bigger Than Life - The Making of Elvis — Self
  • 2022Exclusively Elvis: A Special Edition of 20/20 — Self
  • 2022Halftime — Self
  • 2022Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter — Self
  • 2022Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021A Night at the Academy Museum — Self
  • Carina Bergfeldt — Self - Guest
  • 2021Celebrating America — Self - Host
  • Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy — Self
  • 2021Die Tom Hanks Story — Self (archive footage)
  • Last Meals — Self
  • 2021We Are Cinema — Self (archive footage)
  • When Ruby Wax Met... — Self (archive footage)
  • 2020Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan — Self
  • Reunited Apart — Self
  • 2019Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound — Self (archive footage)
  • The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
  • 2018Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal — Self (archive footage)
  • 2018Die Clint Eastwood Story — Self
  • 2018Quincy — Self
  • 2018The Last Mile — Self
  • 2017California Typewriter — Self
  • 2017Spielberg — Self
  • 2017The Fabulous Allan Carr — Self (archive footage)
  • 2016A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies — Self
  • 2016Mike Nichols: An American Master — Self
  • 2016Sully: Sully Sullenberger - The Man Behind the Miracle — Self
  • 2016There's Something About Romcoms — Self
  • 2016Tom Hanks: A League of His Own — Self
  • Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
  • 2015Everything Is Copy — Self
  • 2015Misery Loves Comedy — Self
  • The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
  • 2015Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond — Self
  • 2014All In — Self
  • 2014And the Oscar Goes To... — Self - Actor
  • 2014Capturing Captain Phillips — Self
  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — Self
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
  • 2014The Concert for Valor — Self
  • 2014The Dave Clark Five and Beyond: Glad All Over — Self
  • 2014The Making Of 'CAPTAIN PHILLIPS' Behind The Scenes — Self
  • 2014The Real Mary Poppins — Self
  • Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
  • 2013Killing Lincoln — Self - Narrator
  • 2012Close Up — Self (archive footage)
  • 2012Inventing David Geffen — Self
  • 2012Radioman — Self
  • 2012Steve Jobs: Visionary Genius — Self
  • The Greatest Event in Television History — Self
  • 2012The Road We've Traveled — Self - Narrator
  • Conan — Self
  • 2009We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial — Self
  • 2008A Timeless Call — Self / Narrator (voice)
  • 2007Making That Thing You Do — Self
  • 2007Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation — Self
  • 2007Spielberg on Spielberg — Self (archive footage)
  • The Graham Norton Show — Self, Self - Guest
  • 2007The Pixar Story — Self - Woody / Scott Turner
  • 2006Who Killed the Electric Car? — Self (archive footage)
  • 2006Who Needs Sleep? — Self
  • 2005Earth to America — Self
  • 2005Live 8 — Self
  • 2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
  • 2005Pennis from Heaven — Self
  • The Colbert Report — Self, Self - Guest
  • The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self
  • Kulturplatz — Self
  • 2004Making a 'Splash' — Self / Allen Bauer
  • 2004People Like Us: Making 'Philadelphia' — Self
  • 2003Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles — Self - Interviewee
  • 2003Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera — Self
  • Celebrities Uncensored — Self
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
  • 2003Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s — Self
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
  • 2001America | A Tribute to Heroes — Self
  • 2001Rescued from the Closet — Self
  • 2001The Making of 'Band of Brothers' — Self
  • Koschwitz — Self
  • 2000Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile — Self / Paul Edgecomb
  • 1999Into the Breach: Saving Private Ryan — Self
  • 1999Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special — Self
  • 1999Stephen King: Shining in the Dark — Self
  • Parkinson — Self
  • The Entertainment Biz — Self
  • Scene by Scene — Self
  • Taff — self
  • 1997The Harryhausen Chronicles — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • The View — Self
  • 1996Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 — Self
  • 1996The Celluloid Closet — Self
  • The Daily Show — Self
  • The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self - Guest
  • 1996The Story Behind 'Toy Story' — Self
  • 1996The Universal Story — Self (archive footage)
  • Die Harald Schmidt Show — Self
  • 1995Sci-Fi Channel: The Making of Apollo 13 — Self
  • 1995The Making of Toy Story — Self
  • Inside the Actors Studio — Self
  • 1994Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump — Self
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
  • Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Guest
  • The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self
  • 1991The Best of Disney: 50 Years of Magic — Self
  • 1989Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary — Self
  • This Morning — Self
  • Jeopardy! — Self - Clue Presenter
  • Entertainment Tonight — Self
  • Wetten, dass..? — Self
  • Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited), Self (uncredited), Self / Michael Caine / Steve Stink (uncredited)
  • Film '72 — Self
  • Titel, Thesen, Temperamente — Self
  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
  • The Grammys — Self - Presenter
  • Today — Self
  • Bambi — Self
  • Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee, Self - Audience Member, Self - Presenter, Self - Presenter / Nominee
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