Tom Hanks born in Concord, California
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is born in Concord, California to Amost Mefford Hanks, a cook, and Janet Marylyn Frager, a hospital worker.
I was a geek, a spaz. I was horribly, painfully, terribly shy. At the same time, I was the guy who’d yell out funny captions during film strips.
Happy Days
Hanks plays a disgruntled former classmate of the Fonz, with a taste for martial arts on the A Little Case of Revenge episode of Happy Days.
Wilson, Hanks marry
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The ‘Burbs is the beginning of a string of films starring Hanks that gained little box office success. In The ‘Burbs, Hanks stars as an average home owner trying to find out more about his mysterious cul-de-sac sharing neighbors.
MTV Movie Award for Apollo 13
Hanks wins Best Male Performance for his role in Apollo 13 at the 1996 MTV Movie Awards.
You’ve Got Mail
Hanks co-stars with Meg Ryan for a third time in You’ve Got Mail, a romantic comedy playing off the trademark AOL greeting of incoming emails. The two play e-mailing lovers who are completely unaware that they know each other.
MTV Movie Awards: Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan wins Best Action Sequence and a win for Hanks as Best Male Performance at the 1999 MTV Movie Awards.
The Green Mile
Hanks stars in a film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Green Mile, the tale of a death row corrections officer during the Great Depression and the supernatural events he witnessed.
I had a good feeling about what it was going to try to do, but then you had to go off and get it done. You’re not going to make a good movie unless you start out with a good movie on paper and this was that.
O Magazine interview
Hanks speaks about how he got the Forrest Gump role:
I was fascinated by a script entitled The Postman, which was written by Eric Roth. I didn’t do that script, but I met Eric and we shared a lot of the same parameters of why we do what we do. So when a producer asked me, What do you think of the book Forrest Gump? [which Roth was writing a script for], I said, That guy can write anything! About a year and a half later, I got Eric’s script—and it was a rocket.
Most Trusted Celebrities
0 CommentsHanks topped a 1500-strong list of Most Trusted Celebrities compiled by Forbes magazine.
Through it all, the Academy Award-winning actor and director managed to earn our esteem, respect and confidence.
Charlie Wilson’s War
Hanks plays Texas congressman Charlie Wilson in this drama directed by Mike Nichols. Wilson teams up with a renegade CIA agent and a Houston socialite to assist Afghani rebels in their war with the Soviets. Their efforts contribute to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
I responded to it because I couldn’t believe that this had ever happened. In reading the book, I thought that this was a serious piece of journalism that describes something that’s almost surrealistic hilarious, as well as historically accurate.
Inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
The group is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame during the 23rd induction ceremony. Tom Hanks:
It is an honor to witness and announce the following: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hereby inducts as members the Dave Clark Five.
The Pacific
Hanks executive produces a war miniseries for HBO and DreamWorks, the Pacific. The series is a companion piece to Band of Brothers that follows the actions of the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific War.
Emmy Award: The Pacific
At the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, The Pacific wins for Outstanding Miniseries.
Electric City
Hanks produces this futuristic, dystopian, animated series for Yahoo! and provides the voice for Cameron Carr, the lead character, who is in charge of policing the underground. Besides wanting to create Internet content that wasn’t comedic, Hanks takes the opportunity to play a character unlike himself.
I’m handcuffed by the way I look and the way I sound, and by the body of work I’ve done before.
Slam Poem: Full House
Hanks performs a spoken-word poem about the 1990s sitcom Full House.
Golden Globe for Game Change
Game Change wins the award for Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television at the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards.
Lucky Guy
Hanks makes his Broadway debut in Lucky Guy, a play about tabloid journalism in 1985.
I Am TOM. I Like to TYPE. Hear That?
Hanks writes an Op-Ed in the New York Times about his love for typewriters, and the sounds they make:
In 1978, the proprietor of a Cleveland business machine shop refused to service my mostly plastic typewriter. “A worthless toy!” the man yelled. Yes, yelled. He pointed to shelves full of his refurbished typewriters — already decades old yet all in perfect working order. A typewriter was a machine, he yelled, which could be dropped from an airplane and still work! He gave me a deal on a Hermes 2000 (“The Cadillac of typewriters!”)
I confess that when real work has to be done — documents with requirements equal to a college term paper — I use a computer. The start and stop of writing begs for the fluidity of modern technology, and who doesn’t love choosing a new font like Franklin Gothic Medium, Bernard MT Condensed or Plantagenet Cherokee?
The sound of typing is one reason to own a vintage manual typewriter — alas, there are only three reasons, and none of them are ease or speed. In addition to sound, there is the sheer physical pleasure of typing; it feels just as good as it sounds, the muscles in your hands control the volume and cadence of the aural assault so that the room echoes with the staccato beat of your synapses.
Captain Phillips
Based on the 2009 Maersk Alabama pirate hijacking of a merchant mariner in the Indian Ocean, Hanks stars as Captain Phillips. During filming, Hanks never met the actors who played Somalian pirates until the action-packed scene where the pirates take the bridge. Director Paul Greengrass believed this would make the meeting more natural as strangers barked commands and pointed guns at the captain and crew.
They were the skinniest, scariest human beings I had ever come across.
