The next year, Hanks landed a lead role on the ABC television pilot of Bosom Buddies, playing the role of Kip Wilson.

Hanks ' next role — astronaut and commander Jim Lovell, in the 1995 film Apollo 13 — reunited him with Ron Howard.

Hanks next appeared in a cameo role as himself in The Simpsons Movie, in which he appeared in an advertisement claiming that the US government has lost its credibility and is hence buying some of his.

By the next morning he is shocked to discover that he has been transformed into a 30-year-old man ( Tom Hanks ), and when he goes back to the wishing machine he finds that the carnival has already left.

The next big collection, by Jane Richardson Hanks accompanied by husband Lucien Hanks in 1938, was recorded in Gleichen, Alberta among the Canadian Blackoot and featured Spumiapi (" White-Headed Chief ").

The same year, Hanks starred in the animated blockbuster Toy Story as the voice of the toy Sheriff Woody.

In 1999, Hanks starred in an adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Green Mile.

In 2007, Hanks starred in Mike Nichols's film Charlie Wilson's War ( written by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin ) in which he plays Democratic Texas Congressman Charles Wilson.

In 2000, Hunt starred in four films: Dr. T & the Women, with Richard Gere ; Pay It Forward, with Kevin Spacey and Haley Joel Osment ; What Women Want, with Mel Gibson ; and Cast Away, with Tom Hanks.

The movie starred a 26-year-old Tom Hanks in his first major leading film role.

He appeared in the 2011 film Larry Crowne, which starred, and was co-written and directed by, Tom Hanks.

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

The series starred Todd Waring in the Hanks role of David Basner and Bill Macy in Gleason's role of Max Basner.

After starring as Ariel Moore, the female lead in Footloose, she starred in a number of other movies, including The Falcon and the Snowman ( directed by John Schlesinger and starring Sean Penn ), and The Man with One Red Shoe ( with Tom Hanks ).

Beasley ( 1978-1992 ) was an acting dog who starred in the 1989 Tom Hanks movie Turner & Hooch as the dog Hooch.

Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, John Goodman, Viola Davis, and Jeffrey Wright starred, alongside 2010 Jeopardy!

She followed this up with 1989 ’ s Uncle Buck with John Candy, ( which also starred Macaulay Culkin ) and then went on to star in This Is My Life ( 1992 ), Sleepless in Seattle ( 1993 ) with Tom Hanks and The Man Without a Face with Mel Gibson.

She also starred in Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own opposite Tom Hanks, Geena Davis and Rosie O ' Donnell.

All directed by Lubitsch, the three were “ Trouble in Paradise ,” “ Heaven Can Wait ,” and Raphaelson ’ s favorite, “ The Shop Around the Corner ” which had starred James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan and which Kael wrote was “ as close to perfection as a movie made by mortals is ever likely to be ; it couldn ’ t be the airy wonder it was without the structure Raphaelson built into it .” ( The story was remade in 1998 as “ You ’ ve Got Mail ,” with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

The latter two films were highly successful ; Philadelphia winning Tom Hanks his first Oscar.

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

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.

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

Although the character was written with Cromwell in mind, Tom Hanks, a big fan of Star Trek, was approached for the role by Paramount first, but he had already committed to the film That Thing You Do!

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.

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

Hanks is also known for his collaboration with film director Steven Spielberg on Saving Private Ryan and the mini-series Band of Brothers, which launched Hanks also as a successful director, producer and writer.

The family's three oldest children, Sandra ( now Sandra Hanks Benoiton, a writer ), Larry ( now Lawrence M. Hanks, PhD, an entomology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) and Tom, went with their father, while the youngest, Jim, now an actor and film maker, remained with his mother in Red Bluff, California.

In 1979, Hanks moved to New York City, where he made his film debut in the low-budget slasher film He Knows You're Alone ( 1980 ) and got a part in the television movie Mazes and Monsters.

The film established Hanks as a major Hollywood talent.

Hanks on the film set of Forrest Gump in 1994

Of the film, Hanks has remarked: " When I read the script for Gump, I saw it as one of those kind of grand, hopeful movies that the audience can go to and feel ... some hope for their lot and their position in life ...

Hanks turned to directing with his 1996 film That Thing You Do!

Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman went on to create Playtone, a record and film production company named for the record company in the film.

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

The film opened on December 21, 2007, and Hanks received a Golden Globe nomination.

Hanks is producer of the Spike Jonze film Where The Wild Things Are, based on the children's book by Maurice Sendak.

Hanks is known for his roles in Apollo 13, Big, That Thing You Do !, The Green Mile, You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, Charlie Wilson's War, Catch Me If You Can, Forrest Gump, A League of Their Own, The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and as the voice of Woody in the Toy Story movie franchise.

He spent the autumn of 2005 filming The Da Vinci Code, based on Dan Brown's best-selling novel and starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou.

Tom Hanks portrayed Robert Langdon in the 2006 film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, reprised the role in the 2009 film adaptation of Angels & Demons, and will play the role again in the 2012 film adaptation of The Lost Symbol.

* The Da Vinci Code ( 2006 ) starring Tom Hanks