Tom Hanks has starred in a surprising number of movies where his character’s name is in the title: “Forrest Gump,” “Sully,” “Larry Crowne,” “Joe Versus the Volcano,” Charlie Wilson’s War,” “Turner & Hooch,” “Captain Phillips.”
I know this because I’m hard at work on my latest book, “I Want You to Quiz Me as Hard as You Can,” a book about ’90s movie trivia, and WOW, does Tom Hanks show up a lot. I’ve been all over his filmography of late.
So here’s a list of classic Tom Hanks characters, along with year of the film. Name the movies.
- Jimmy Dugan (1992)
- Ben Bradlee (2017)
- Viktor Navorski (2004)
- Andrew Beckett (1993)
- Josh Baskin (1988)
- Jim Lovell (1995)
- Sam Baldwin (1993)
- Carl Hanratty (2002)
- Michael Sullivan (2002)
- Chuck Noland (2000)
Answers up after the trailer for “The Money Pit,” which remains one of the funniest movies ever. (And it’s not the answer to one of the above. In this one, he’s Walter Fielding.)
Answers:
- “A League of Their Own”
- “The Post”
- “The Terminal”
- “Philadelphia”
- “Big”
- “Apollo 13”
- “Sleepless in Seattle”
- “Catch Me If You Can”
- “Road to Perdition”
- “Castaway”
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