Woody, like many of Hanks’ characters, makes mistakes, sure, but his resting point is nice. Not just nice, benevolent. A leader, who is often willing to sacrifice himself for the group.

But not Tom Hanks. Whether he’s playing a 12-year-old who has wished himself into the body of a 30-year-old, a lawyer coping with AIDS, or the head of a corporate bookstore conglomerate, Hanks ...

Few actors have captured the heart of Hollywood quite like Tom Hanks. With a career spanning over four decades, his ...

Affable everymen are pretty much the signature wheelhouse for Tom Hanks, and his latest character just happens to be straight out of the history books. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Bridge of ...

Therein lies the problem: Tom Hanks is not an “Everyman,” and neither was Jimmy Stewart. ... It perpetuates bogus received ideas about what sorts of characters are “relatable,” and, ...

Hanks picked up another Oscar the following year as the titular character in Forrest Gump, director Robert Zemeckis’s smash hit about a guy who happens to witness all of the century’s most ...

He’s tall and slender with neatly cropped dark hair, a boyish grin and glasses -- just the kind of guy-next-door persona that allows the actor to walk the streets and not always get noticed. But ...

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He is back! Saturday Night Live‘s hugely popular Halloween character David S. Pumpkins, played by 10-time host Tom Hanks, returned to the show after a lengthy hiatus.He did it in a prison ride ...