Tom Hanks

Hanks with the Muppets in an unidentified backstage promotional photo.

Tom Hanks is an actor an Hollywood movie producer whose career gained attention during the 1980s sitcom Bosom Buddies. He portrayed Professor G.H. Dorr in the Jim Henson's Creature Shop effects movie The Ladykillers.

Hanks has appeared in Forrest Gump as the title character, the film version of Dragnet, 1984's Splash, Apollo 13 (telling the story of the April 1970 NASA mission to the Moon), Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, and provided the voice of Woody for Pixar's Toy Story films.