Actors best role - Tom Hanks edition

[Ebbs]

I was thinking this would be interesting. I'll do an actor every couple days throw a poll up and we can debate what was the best role each actor has done. I'll track the results from thread to thread.

Why not start it off with Tom Hanks a pretty established actor. Guy has had money roles in numerous genres.

[Jack of Blades]

Definitely Cast Away for me. Although it's not my favorite movie on the list, I think it's his best performance. Cool thread idea btw.

[long ball]

wow he's done a lot of good ****. nod goes to forrest gump for me

[Ebbs]

wow he's done a lot of good ****. nod goes to forrest gump for me

Yea I was instantly gonan vote for Forrest or Woody but he has had a lot of damn good movies.

[Killerjug]

this is very tough I really liked him in Saving Private Ryan, Apollo 13, Toy Story, Forrest Gump and Cast Away

[steelcityroller]

You could have really narrowed those down to 3 or 4 choices. Is anybody really gonna say Toy Story, Big, Charlie Wilson's War or Catch Me If You Can?

[Ebbs]

I almost picked toy story yea. Woody is a pretty immortal character.

[LionsFan..LOL]

Debated between FG, Toy Story, and Catch Me If You Can but I went with Forest Gump.

I do think he did a good job in Angels And Demons though.

[Tongue-Splitter]

*Cough* Gary Oldman next. *Cough*

As far as Tom Hanks, I'm going with Terminal. I think it was a seriously underrated movie and a seriously underrated performance by Hanks.

[Ebbs]

agreed terminal was awesome.

[BullsFan_1]

This is impossible.

It's a tossup between 5 different roles for me.

[XJW18]

It was between these four for me. Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Saving Private Ryan, Green Mile
Went with Mr. Forrest Gump
2nd place would've been Chuck Noland - Cast Away

[Vincent33]

Guess I'll go with Cast Away since it was just him in the movie basically. Pretty tough to have a movie be watchable with just one person on the screen for the majority of it.

Shout out to other roles Hanks had in Money Pit, The Burbs, Splash, League of Their Own, Turner & Hooch, Dragnet, he was one of the best comedic actors of the 80s. Funny dude. Still is too. He can do anything.

[ewing]

Bachelor party is Tom Hanks best big screen work although his work on bossum buddies is my favorite

[Fred]

I actually went with Philadelphia for the role he played...I certainly loved the movies GM, FG, and SPR WAY more, but as far as his performance is concerned, Philadelphia was terrific