Tom Hanks celebrates his 66th birthday here is a list of his greatest films

Born 66 years ago in the Californian city of Concord, Tom Hanks is one of the most respected actors in North American cinema thanks to his talent for acting as well as his intuition when choosing roles. Rarely does a film in which he stars shipwreck: there may be very good and acceptable ones, but almost none fall into the category of bad, something that not all Hollywood actors achieve.

In addition, without being seen as a simple “commercial actor”, Thomas Jeffrey Hanks, as his full name is, is one of those who reap one success after another and his various characters manage to remain in the collective memory. Because there are huge actors who are remembered for great leading men but in similar genres; Hanks, on the other hand, is hardly pigeonholed into a particular type of role.

That is why it is worth remembering some of the best films of this winner of two Oscars who knew how to be a shipwreck, a charming character with mental retardation, a terminal patient, a spy, an astronaut, a tourist in New York, a romantic in love, a kidnapped captain, a journalist and even the voice of the commissioner most loved by children.

Best Tom Hanks Movies

Philadelphia (1993)

A young man finds out that he is sick with AIDS and that is the reason why he is fired from his job, a prestigious law firm for which he works, and where he is highly regarded until they notice his illness.

Hanks embodies a very difficult character, who shows the struggle of a man to show that he is being discriminated against because of his illness and his sexuality while showing the progressive deterioration in which he falls as a result of HIV. He won the Oscar for best actor.

Forrest Gump (1994)

For this film he won the Oscar for best actor again, being the only one in history to achieve that achievement twice in a row. His character is named after the film: Forrest Gump and it is one of the best performances of his career.

It is about a young man who suffers from a mild mental disability and who, while waiting for a bus, tells the captivating story of his life, which goes in the direction of various historical events in the United States in the 60s, and 70s and 80s.

Thus, Gump was an ex-combatant in Vietnam, a table tennis champion, an American football figure, the man who ran the most kilometers in history, a millionaire shrimp fisherman, but above all, an eternal lover of his childhood best friend. , Jenny, always protected him from children who bullied him.

The innocent and endearing Forrest waits for a bus to take him to Jenny’s house, which was sent for him. But after several people went by one after another at the stop, hearing her stories, a woman tells her that she does not need to take any bus: the place where she is going is a few meters away.

Cast Away (2000)

Another formidable performance was nominated for an Oscar but could not win it. Hanks is a systems analyst for a courier company and on a private company plane trip, he lands on a desert island. The character (Chuck Noland) survives, although his surroundings after a time of searching, he is considered dead.

On the island, the man tries not to give in to loneliness or his idea of ​​returning home. 80% of the film stars Tom Hanks, accompanied by water, sand, and another character almost as famous as him: a volleyball that was his company and which he painted eyes, nose, and mouth, and baptized it “ Wilson ”, which was the sports brand of that ball.

Apollo 13 (1995)

Tom Hanks puts on the body of a character based on true events, about the failed Apollo XIII mission to the Moon. The actor plays Jim Lovell, who was the commander of that 1970 mission that left eight months after Neil Armstrong’s moon landing on July 20, 1969. The story, taken from the book published by Lovell, tells of an explosion suffered by the ship in which they travel, a situation that forces the three crew members to take refuge in the Aquarius module with one detail: it is built for only two people and hardly counts. with 48 hours of oxygen. From this film came the famous Hollywood phrase: “ Houston, we have a problem ”.

Bridge of Spies (2015)

Based on real events that occurred during the times of the cold war, Tom Hanks is a lawyer (James Donovan) who must defend the Russian spy Rudolf Abel, who had been arrested in the United States in 1957. It does not manage to save him from the sentence, but from the death sentence, arguing before the Supreme Court of Justice of the United States that the Russian spy could be a possible bargaining chip. And that situation occurs three years later when an American plane that was spying on Soviet soil was shot down and its pilot, Francis Gary Powers, arrested.

Hanks’ character has the uncomfortable and difficult task of negotiating with the Russians for a prisoner exchange.

Toy Story (1995)

The fantasy of every child, that their toys come to life, is fulfilled in this animated Pixar story in which one of the two main protagonists is Commissioner Woody, whose voice is in English (in each of the four parts of the saga: 1995, 1999, 2010 and 2019) is by Tom Hanks.