How tall is Tom Hanks?
This Oscar award winner stands 6’ flat and is an actor, director, voice artist, writer and film producer. He has had a successful career in television before moving to motion pictures to even greater success. Hanks’ biggest television role was in the series “Bosom Buddies” and was then cast as the lead role by director Ron Howard in the movie “Splash”. This collaboration with Howard would produce many of the critical and commercial successes of Hanks. Other roles that he played were Andrew Beckett in the Jonathan Demme megged “Philadelphia”, the lead role and eventual Oscar win for “Forrest Gump”, re teamed with Howard as Commander James Lovell in “Apollo 13” and as Captain John Miller in “Saving Private Ryan”. After his Oscar wins, Hanks also assumed other roles in noted films such as “Road to Perdition”, “Catch Me if You Can”, the voice of Woody in the animated film “Toy Story” and as stranded Chuck Nolan in “Cast Away”. As an actor, his films have been commercially successful, earni