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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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!

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.

* Tom Hanks as Captain John H. Miller

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.

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

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Additionally, he has written a script for Tom Hanks ' Playtone Productions and Universal Pictures called They Marched into Sunlight based upon the Pulitzer nominated novel of the same name and an outline by Paul Greengrass, for Greengrass to direct, should it get a greenlight.

Thomas Jeffrey " Tom " Hanks ( born July 9, 1956 ) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director.

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.

* Gardner, David, ( 1999 ), Tom Hanks: The Unauthorized Biography, London: England, ISBN 978-1857823271

* Gardner, David, ( 2007 ), Tom Hanks: Enigma, ISBN 978-1844544288

He was portrayed by actor Tom Bosley.

Unlike Tom Powers in The Public Enemy, Jarrett was portrayed as a raging lunatic with few if any sympathetic qualities.

* In the 2007 ( TNT ) television three-part series The Company, produced by Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, and John Calley, Philby is portrayed by Tom Hollander.

" paid homage to the show, with Jerry as a secret agent tasked with the mission of retrieving a sizeable stash of cheese from the villainous Tom Thrush ( portrayed by Tom ).

He was also portrayed by actor Tom Berenger in 1997 for the TNT movie Rough Riders, a made-for-cable film about his exploits during the Spanish – American War in Cuba.

He is portrayed in the 1993 film Gettysburg ( based on the The Killer Angels ) by Tom Berenger, and in the prequel, Gods and Generals ( 2003 ), by Bruce Boxleitner.

" Tom is portrayed as a natural genius.

Tom Striver portrayed Gandalf in the early 2000s stage productions of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King for Clear Stage Cincinnati.

* The Right Stuff, A book written in 1979 by Tom Wolfe, which was made into a major motion picture of the same name, in which actor Ed Harris portrayed Glenn.

The rip-roaring world it portrayed undoubtedly prefigures that of Dickens ' Pickwick Papers ( published just eight years after Tom and Jerry ); Cruikshank's illustrations, of course, helped both men with their success.

* In the Doctor Who serial " The Face of Evil ", The Doctor ( portrayed by Tom Baker ) whistles the march to show his disdain of his alien antagonizers as he explores a planet.

They portrayed Ike Clanton and Tom McLaury as being unjustly bullied and beaten by the vengeful Earps on the day of the gunfight.

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

In the Billy Crystal directed movie 61 *, Wilhelm was portrayed by fellow knuckleball pitcher Tom Candiotti.

In The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy he is portrayed by Tom Finnis.

* Witness to the Mob – 1998 NBC miniseries, portrayed by Tom Sizemore.

In motion pictures, Tom Smothers portrayed corporate-executive-turned-tap-dancing-magician Donald Beeman in one of Brian De Palma's earlier films, Get to Know Your Rabbit ( 1972 ).

Lilburne was portrayed by Tom Goodman-Hill in the 2008 television drama The Devil's Whore.

Farley also performed impersonations of Tom Arnold, who gave Farley's eulogy at his private funeral ; Andrew Giuliani, Jerry Garcia, Meat Loaf, Norman Schwarzkopf, Dom DeLuise, Roger Ebert, Carnie Wilson, Newt Gingrich, Mindy Cohn, Mama Cass, Hank Williams, Jr., and Rush Limbaugh were among the celebrities and real-life figures he portrayed.

In February 2009, Pelosi met with her bishop, Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco, and with Pope Benedict XVI as a result of comments made by Pelosi to Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press that many observers felt inaccurately portrayed Church teaching on the subject of abortion and the beginning of life.

Also added as regulars were their grumpy neighbor Mr. Bickley ( who was seen occasionally in the first season and ironically worked as a verse writer for a greeting-card company ) portrayed by Tom Poston, and Nelson Flavor ( Jim Staahl ), Mindy's snooty cousin who ran for city council.

Happy Days producers Tom Miller and Bob Boyett would eventually get to work with Edwards again, casting her as a regular on their future sitcoms The Family Man ( 1990-1991 ) and Full House, where Edwards portrayed Vicky Larson from 1991 until 1994.

Uncle Tom himself was frequently portrayed as a harmless bootlicker to be ridiculed.

Tom Hulce portrayed Michael Schwerner.