This man named the trope
Tom Hanks Syndrome for a reason.
Hanks worked in television (
Bosom Buddies) and family-friendly comedies such as
Splash and
Big before achieving success as a dramatic actor portraying several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in
Philadelphia, the title role in
Forrest Gump, Commander James A. Lovell in
Apollo 13, Captain John H. Miller in
Saving Private Ryan, Michael Sullivan in
Road to Perdition, Sheriff Woody in Pixar's
Toy Story, and Chuck Noland in
Cast Away, as well as helping to produce
Band of Brothers and
The Pacific.
He also played Robert Langdon in
The Da Vinci Code and
Angels and Demons. Has hosted
Saturday Night Live eight times (half as many times as
Alec Baldwin, who as of September 2011, is
SNL's most frequent host), and has made cameos on the show (including on the last episode of season 34
in which he played a moronic version of himself on "Celebrity Jeopardy"). Runs his own studio called Playtone, named after the music label in his self-produced
That Thing You Do!.
His more important films include:
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