Tom Hanks
Director, Actor
- Bosom Buddies (TV Series) (1980)
- Feat. Tom Hanks, Peter Scolari
- Box office everyman Tom Hanks dons womenswear as a yuppie advertising executive resigned to living in an all–female tenement.…
- Splash (1984)
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah
- Winning comic fantasy with Tom Hanks falling for mermaid Daryl Hannah.
- Bachelor Party (1984)
- Dir. Neal Israel
Feat. Tom Hanks
- 'Classic', if that's the word, 80s sex comedy has an impish Tom Hanks undergoing various hair–raising rites of passage before he is wed.
- Volunteers (1985)
- Feat. Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson…
- Broad eighties comedy stars a fresh–faced Hanks as a upper class snob who joins the peace corps in Thailand in order to escape his gambling…
- Money Pit, The (1986)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Tom Hanks, Shelley Long
- An often very funny 80s comedy about couple Tom Hanks’ and Shelley Long’s disastrous purchase of a home in Long Island that conceals a host of…
- Nothing in Common (1986)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, Eva Marie Saint…
- Tom Hanks stars as a precocious ad exec who's forced to deal with his aging, unloving father (Jackie Gleason) after his parents separate.
The…
- Dragnet (1987)
- Dir. Tom Mankiewicz
Feat. Tom Hanks, Dan Aykroyd, Christopher Plummer…
- Amiably silly buddy–cop comedy that both parodies and pays homage to television crime drama of the 1950s and 60s. Dan Aykroyd plays the "old…
- Big (1988)
- Dir. Penny Marshall
Feat. Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia…
- Tom Hanks is perfect as a 12–year–old trapped in an adults body, having to cope with big business and romance without the benefit of…
- Punchline (1988)
- Dir. David Seltzer
Feat. Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman
- Ambitious comedy–drama focused on the career–efforts of two, very different aspiring standup comics – a personable Sally Field and…
- Turner and Hooch (1989)
- Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson
- Tom Hanks injects lots of fun into this story of a neatness–obsessed detective who takes on a slobbering junkyard dog.