He stars as one of the three leads in the big-budget HBO miniseries The Pacific, from executive producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.

In Cast Away, the 2000 movie directed by Robert Zemeckis, Chuck Noland, the FedEx executive ( starring Tom Hanks ) hands his colleagues before they board the plane, a Fauchon bag containing fresh baguette bread from Paris.

The film, directed by Richard Donner and, as uncredited, David Mickey Evans, is executive produced by David Mickey Evans and Michael Douglas ; and stars Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, Tom Hanks, Lorraine Bracco, Adam Baldwin, and Ben Johnson.

Hanks served as an executive producer on " The Pacific ", in which Seda starred.

Happy-go-lucky advertising executive David Basner ( Tom Hanks ), who recently got a promotion at his Chicago ad agency, returns to work from a vacation.

In 1952, Parker gave birth to a son, Robert Lowery Hanks, who works as an executive for the city of Los Angeles.

After this success, director Sydney Pollack hired Cuarón to direct an episode of Fallen Angels, a series of neo-noir stories produced for the Showtime premium cable network in 1993 ; other directors who worked on the series included Steven Soderbergh, Jonathan Kaplan, Peter Bogdanovich, and Tom Hanks.

The same year, Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson produced the hit movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Later in 2006, Hanks produced the British film Starter for Ten, a comedy based on working class students attempting to win University Challenge.

She appeared as " Marion Leckie ", mother of Robert Leckie in the HBO series The Pacific, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, which aired in 2010.

A number of films have also been set in Clifton, including The Truth About Love ( 2005 ) starring Dougray Scott and Jennifer Love Hewitt, The Foolish Things ( 2005 ), starring Lauren Bacall and Anjelica Huston, and Starter for 10 ( 2006 ), starring James McAvoy and produced by Tom Hanks, which was filmed largely on Royal York Crescent.

" He also has a long list of TV credits, including the Tom Hanks produced mini series " From The Earth To The Moon " where he played James B. Irwin.

Denton, along with James Stockdale ( another Navy officer who became the vice-presidential running mate of H. Ross Perot during his 1992 presidential campaign ), Larry Guarino ( an Air Force Major ) and James Robinson Risner ( an Air Force colonel ), distinguished themselves as members of the American POW resistance from 1965-1973, and helped their men accomplish their sworn goal to " return with honor " – a POW battle cry that later was used as the title of a documentary film narrated and produced by Tom Hanks.

Released in 2000, the film was produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, directed by Robert Zemeckis, and it features Tom Hanks as the resilient Chuck Noland.

* In Episode 10 (" Galileo Was Right ") of the TV series From the Earth to the Moon, ( produced by Tom Hanks for HBO ), his role in the training of the Apollo astronauts was featured in a segment entitled " The Brain of Farouk El-Baz.

As well, she portrayed Marilyn See, wife of astronaut Elliott See, in Episode # 11 of the Emmy Award-winning television mini-series From the Earth to the Moon, produced by Tom Hanks and directed by Sally Field.

In addition, Hanks co-wrote and co-produced Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, an IMAX film about the moon landings.

In 2001, Hanks helped direct and produce the acclaimed HBO mini-series Band of Brothers.

In 2001, Schwimmer played Captain Herbert M. Sobel in Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks ' HBO World War II miniseries Band of Brothers.

In April 2011 it was announced that American Gods will be adapted into a series for HBO by Playtone ( Tom Hanks ' production company ), with Robert Richardson & Gaiman writing the pilot.

* He also consulted on the movies Apollo 13 for Ron Howard and was on the set for much of the filming of the HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon, where he advised both Tom Hanks and the various directors, as well as answered questions from the actors on set.

From the Earth to the Moon is a twelve-part HBO television miniseries ( 1998 ) co-produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tom Hanks, and Michael Bostick detailing the landmark Apollo expeditions to the Moon during the 1960s and early 1970s.

He teamed up with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, along with two of his fellow Boomtown writers Michelle Ashford and Larry Andries, to write and direct episodes of the HBO miniseries The Pacific.

As a supervising producer of the critically-acclaimed mini-series " Band of Brothers " for HBO in 2001, Jendresen was one of the recipients of that year's Emmy Award for " Outstanding Miniseries ", which he shared with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, among others.

In 1998, Daly appeared in several episodes of the Emmy award-winning, Tom Hanks-produced HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon playing astronaut Jim Lovell, whom Hanks himself had portrayed in the film Apollo 13.

Magnificent Desolation is the third Apollo-related project for Hanks: he was previously involved in the film Apollo 13 and the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.

* Tom Hanks as Narrator ( voice ) Jim Lovell in Apollo 13 and hosted From the Earth to the Moon

Hanks also provided the voice over for the premiere of the show Passport to the Universe at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

As MTV became the center of the entertainment universe, Hunter ’ s celebrity interviews included the first MTV interviews with Madonna, Duran Duran and U2, and also included Ozzy Osbourne, Frank and Moon Unit Zappa, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Loverboy, Kasim Sultan, Crosby Stills & Nash, Kevin Bacon, Robin Williams, Dan Aykroyd, Eurythmics, Kenny Loggins, the Psychedelic Furs, Bob & Doug McKenzie, Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, the Cars, the GoGos, the Bangles, Colin Hay and Men at Work, Boy George, Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams, John Mellencamp, Hugh Hefner, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Rod Stewart, Cheap Trick, Billy Idol, Thomas Dolby, Joe Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Crowded House, Aretha Franklin, Michael McDonald, Rick Springfield, Peter Wolf, Toto, Level 42, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, Martin Short, Chevy Chase and Pee-Wee Herman among others.

Lincoln's mother, Nancy, was the daughter of Lucy Hanks, and was born in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia, then part of Virginia.

Nancy Hanks married Thomas, who became a respected citizen.

In March 2005, the British network Sky TV reported that Tom Hanks was planning to produce a biopic on the life of Bill Haley, with production tentatively scheduled to begin in 2006.

However this rumor was quickly debunked by Hanks.

Popular comedy stars in the 1980s included Dudley Moore, Tom Hanks, Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd.

It was also unfavorably compared to the 1988 film Big, in which Tom Hanks also played a child in a grown man's body.

* 1784 – Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln ( d. 1818 )

The 1994 Tom Hanks film Forrest Gump while not presented as a documentary of a real character, does contain several sequences that feature the Hanks character inserted into archival newsreel footage of John Kennedy, Gerald Ford, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Apollo 11 astronauts, and others, to realistic effect.

Demme followed that up with Philadelphia, which garnered star Tom Hanks a Best Actor Oscar.

Palin was in the cast of You've Got Mail, the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan romantic comedy as a subplot novelist, but his role was eventually cut entirely.

He was influenced by very few people ; but does recall an elderly, unrecorded, blues singer from that area, Rufus Hanks, who played twelve-string guitar and harmonica.

In film, Abdul choreographed sequences for the giant keyboard scene involving Tom Hanks ’ s character in Big.

Frakes commented that it would have been a mistake to cast Hanks as Cochrane due to his being so well known.

Afterwards, it follows Tom Hanks as United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller and seven other soldiers ( Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy Davies ) as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan ( Matt Damon ), who is the last-surviving brother of four servicemen.

The script was submitted to producer Mark Gordon, who handed it to Hanks.

* Tom Hanks as Captain John H. Miller

Gordon shared the finished script with Hanks, who liked it and in turn passed it along to Spielberg to direct.

Before filming began, several of the film's stars, including Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, Giovanni Ribisi, and Tom Hanks, endured ten days of " boot camp " training and work on the film set to prepare for their roles.

Spielberg later co-produced the World War II themed television miniseries Band of Brothers and its counterpart The Pacific with Tom Hanks.

Pro Bowl safety Merton Hanks led the team with 7 interceptions for 93 return yards, while Sanders had 6 interceptions for 303 return yards and 3 touchdowns, earning him the NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award.

Actor Tom Hanks will be playing Disney in the upcoming film Saving Mr. Banks.