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Jim Hanks is a Actor and Stunt Double American born on 15 june 1961 at Shasta (USA)
James Mathew Hanks (born June 15, 1961 in Shasta, California) is an American actor, voice actor, and filmmaker. He has played numerous minor roles in film and guest appearances on television, and often substitutes doing voice work for his brother Tom Hanks. He has produced, directed, and filmed several short films.
He works with Los Angeles based "Feet First Films", a production company that provides actor demos as well as production support for short films. Jim and his wife have one son and currently reside in Venice, California.
(1994)
(Stunt Double)
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Jim Hanks is the youngest brother of Tom Hanks, but they were not raised together. After their parents Amos and Janet Hanks divorced in 1961, Jim went to Red Bluff, California with his mother, while older siblings Tom, Larry, and Sandra remained with their father. After college he lived in Sacramento working as a waiter, and in 1988, moved to Los Angeles. The agent who employed his actress wife Karen Praxel as a receptionist encouraged him to get into acting. He took acting lessons, and began his career with roles in B-movies and commercial voice-overs.He works with Los Angeles based "Feet First Films", a production company that provides actor demos as well as production support for short films. Jim and his wife have one son and currently reside in Venice, California.
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I Know That Voice (2014)
, 1h35Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about television, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Alanna Ubach, Charles Adler, Jim Cummings, Carlos Alazraqui, John DiMaggio, Dee Bradley Baker
Roles Self
Rating73%
A Leading Man (2014)
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Heather Mazur, Tsai Chin, Kate Miner, Isidora Goreshter, Coby Ryan McLaughlin, Cameron Bender
Roles Darren Brandl
Rating65%
GQ Qi (Jack Yang) finally makes it big playing a coveted role on a television sitcom. Everyone is happy for him – the network, his mother, his best friend – everyone except GQ himself. He is stuck playing an offensive stereotype. The day he decides to speak up for himself on set, the executive producer fires him. To salvage his career, he starts dating A-list casting director Rachel Cohen (Heather Mazur); work and love soon become intertwined.
I Married Who? (2012)
, 1h26Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Kellie Martin, Ethan Erickson, Bess Armstrong, Timothy Bottoms, Daphnée Duplaix, Adrienne Frantz
Roles Director
Rating60%
Straight-laced Jordan (Kellie Martin) is about to marry her perfect match, Peter (Bradley Snedeker) a clean-cut ambitious attorney. Before she walks down the aisle, Jordan and her best friends, Claire (Adrienne Frantz) and Jessica (Daphnee Duplaix), head to Vegas for a bachelorette party. Determined to get Jordan to loosen up, Claire steers the girls to the hottest nightclub for a few drinks and some fun, because what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right? But when Jordan wakes up the next morning unable to recall the night before, she panics when she finds she’s in movie star Matt Swift's (Ethan Erickson) hotel suite with a gigantic diamond on her finger and a marriage certificate lying nearby. Before Jordan can have the marriage annulled and put this nightmare behind her, the impromptu wedding explodes into a publicity stunt fueled by Matt’s manager Eric (Bruce Nozick) to promote his latest movie. With her wedding day approaching, Jordan finds herself more confused than ever when she starts falling in love with the movie star she’s married to instead of the fiancé she thought was her perfect match.
Deadwater (2008)
, 1h40Directed by Roel Reiné
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror
Actors Lance Henriksen, James Russo, D.C. Douglas, Jim Hanks
Roles Ensign Buford
Rating38%
Secret U.S. military interrogations of suspected terrorists are being conducted on an American World War II-era ship in the Persian Gulf. After mysterious sounds are heard on the ship, an unexplained force kills the crew. When contact with the ship is lost, the army sends a team of Marines and two scientists to investigate. When they land on the ship, they discover that almost all the crew have been killed. The team, led by Col. John Willets (Lance Henriksen), cannot make contact with command, while the ship drifts toward Iranian waters. Willets interrogates one of the scientists and learns that the mysterious force is the ghost of a Nazi officer who was created to be a secret weapon. The ghost, which has strong psychic powers, is trapped on the ship and the two scientists were sent to try to capture it. Meanwhile, the supposed terrorist being interrogated onboard turns out to be an MIT-educated decoy (who was forced to impersonate a terrorist). He aids in the efforts to destroy the ghost, before being killed by it.
Shark Swarm (2008)
, 2h47Directed by James A. Contner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about sharks, Natural horror films
Actors Daryl Hannah, John Schneider, Armand Assante, F. Murray Abraham, Roark Critchlow, Heather McComb
Roles Nick Atkins
Rating35%
Corporate real estate tycoon Hamilton Lux (Armand Assante) sets his sights on developing the quaint seaside town of Full Moon Bay into a prime getaway for the wealthy, but runs into some unexpected problems. Lifelong fisherman Daniel Wilder (John Schneider) and wife Brooke (Daryl Hannah) own property exactly where Lux wants to build high-priced condos, and isn't planning to sell. Lux secretly laces the local waters with a toxin deadly to marine life, decimating the fishing industry in an attempt to starve Daniel out. Alas, the chemical react differently on the area's sharks, drastically increasing their aggressive tendencies and transforming them into engines of pure destruction moving in coordinated swarms. Without fish to feed on, shark attacks on humans rapidly increase. Lux uses media contacts to paint the attacks as random incidents. Daniel, his marine biologist brother and a concerned E.P.A. agent must expose Lux's plan and rid the area of the chemically-altered sharks before the town's entire population is devoured by hungry sharks.
Purgatory House (2003)
, 1h37Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Jim Hanks, Johnny Pacar, Brian Dietzen
Roles Saint James
Rating56%
, 1h11Directed by Tad Stones
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Children's films
Actors Tim Allen, Nicole Sullivan, Thomas F. Wilson, Stephen Furst, Larry Miller, Adam Carolla
Roles Sheriff Woody (voice)
Rating62%
As a framing device, Andy's toys watch a VHS copy of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins.
Baby Geniuses (1999)
, 1h37Directed by Bob Clark
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Peter MacNicol, Kim Cattrall, Dom DeLuise, Ruby Dee
Roles Goon Ray
Rating26%
Two scientists, Dr. Elena Kinder (Kathleen Turner) and Dr. Heep (Christopher Lloyd), use genius-baby studies to fund BabyCo's theme park "Joyworld". According to Dr. Kinder's research on toddlers/babies, babies are born possessing vast, universal knowledge and speak a secret yet impossible-to-translate baby pre-language called Babytalk. However at age 2–3, the knowledge and language are lost as the babies cross over by learning how to speak human languages. Most of the babies raised in Dr. Kinder's underground research facility were adopted from the Pasadena City orphanage, transformed into little geniuses through use of the Kinder Method, and then used in experiments to decipher this secret yet impossible-to-translate language used by the 7 baby-geniuses.
Inferno (1999)
, 1h35Directed by John G. Avildsen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Romance
Actors Jean-Claude Van Damme, Danny Trejo, Pat Morita, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, Larry Drake, Vincent Schiavelli
Roles Tour Bus Driver
Rating51%
The film opens as Eddie Lomax (Jean-Claude Van Damme) drives an Indian motorcycle in an open desert plain (referred to as the Dry Lake). Soon enough, the motorcycle breaks down and Eddie dismounts, carrying nothing but his jacket, his .45 pistol, and a bottle of tequilla. As he lies in the desert drinking, he eventually sees his friend Johnny Sixtoes (Danny Trejo), a Mexican Indian, whom he had sent a postcard notifying him of his arrival.
Tiny Toy Stories (1996)
, 20minutesDirected by John Lasseter, Alvy Ray Smith
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Pat Fraley, Dee Bradley Baker, Jim Hanks, Jeff Bennett, John Ratzenberger
Roles Woody
Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (1995)
, 1h30Directed by Harry Bromley Davenport
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Horror
Actors Robert Culp, Andrew Divoff, Daryl Haney, Jim Hanks, Karen Moncrieff, Virgil Frye
Roles Prvt. Friedman
Rating36%
For years, the government has successfully covered up very real proof of U.F.O.s. but when a group of Marines is dispatched to a deserted island, they uncover unsettling evidence: old films documenting brutal medical experiments on aliens. They also uncover a lone surviving alien out for revenge, and a military intelligence plot to sacrifice them and conceal existence of the encounter. The shroud of mystery is about to be lifted.
Freefall: Flight 174 (1995)
, 1h30Directed by Jorge Montesi
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors William Devane, Scott Hylands, Shelley Hack, Kevin McNulty, Gwynyth Walsh, Nicholas Turturro
Roles Mechanic (uncredited)
Rating59%
Two airline pilots experience a sudden loss of power in the two engines of their airliner due to a fuel pump failure and end up crashing shortly afterwards, albeit in a flight simulator. In complete disbelief that such a scenario could ever happen in real life, they protest to the examiner. He tells them that "It isn't a dream. It happened."()
Forrest Gump (1994)
, 2h22Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Military humor in film, Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about sexuality, Sports films, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films about autism, Films about school violence, HIV/AIDS in film, White House in fiction
Actors Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field, Haley Joel Osment
Roles Forrest Gump Running Double
Rating84%
In 1981, Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), a man with below-average intelligence, watches a feather fall from the sky at a bus stop in Savannah, Georgia. As he sits down on a bench, he removes a copy of The Adventures of Curious George from his suitcase and places the feather inside the pages. He introduces himself and begins telling his life story to strangers who sit next to him on the bench, recounting his childhood in Greenbow, Alabama. As a child in the 1950s, Forrest (Michael Connor Humphreys) had to wear leg braces for which other children make fun of him. He lives with his single mother (Sally Field) in a very large house outside of town, which they rent rooms to travelers. His father apparently left and he never knew him. Despite his limited mental capacity, Mrs. Gump tells her son that "stupid is as stupid does" (which he later uses as a retort when called "stupid") and also assures him that he is no different from any of the other children. Forrest is admitted to public school despite his IQ being below the cut-off, but only after his mother agrees to a one-night stand with the principal, Mr. Hancock (Sam Anderson). On his first bus ride to school, Forrest is rejected by nearly all of his peers except for Jenny Curran (Hanna R. Hall). He and Jenny become best friends, and he helps her hide from her abusive, alcoholic father. One day, while fleeing from bullies, Forrest's leg braces break apart and he discovers that he can run very fast. A few years later, Forrest inadvertently runs onto the field during a local high school football match and catches the attention of Coach Bryant from the University of Alabama who is scouting for players. Forrest attends the university on an athletic scholarship and becomes a college football star, earning him a spot on the College Football All-America Team and a trip to the White House to meet President John F.
Buford's Beach Bunnies (1993)
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jim Hanks, Monique Parent, Kitten Natividad, Jerry Rector, Jonathan Fahn
Roles Jeeter Buford
Rating28%
Jim Hanks plays Jeeter Buford, the son of fast-food mogul Harry Buford. Jeeter, will inherit his father's company only if he can overcome his lifelong fear of women. When Harry offers $100,000 to the first of his female employees who can woo his son, the competition begins.
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Forrest Gump (1994)
, 2h22Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Military humor in film, Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about sexuality, Sports films, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films about autism, Films about school violence, HIV/AIDS in film, White House in fiction
Actors Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field, Haley Joel Osment
Roles Stunt Double
Rating84%
In 1981, Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), a man with below-average intelligence, watches a feather fall from the sky at a bus stop in Savannah, Georgia. As he sits down on a bench, he removes a copy of The Adventures of Curious George from his suitcase and places the feather inside the pages. He introduces himself and begins telling his life story to strangers who sit next to him on the bench, recounting his childhood in Greenbow, Alabama. As a child in the 1950s, Forrest (Michael Connor Humphreys) had to wear leg braces for which other children make fun of him. He lives with his single mother (Sally Field) in a very large house outside of town, which they rent rooms to travelers. His father apparently left and he never knew him. Despite his limited mental capacity, Mrs. Gump tells her son that "stupid is as stupid does" (which he later uses as a retort when called "stupid") and also assures him that he is no different from any of the other children. Forrest is admitted to public school despite his IQ being below the cut-off, but only after his mother agrees to a one-night stand with the principal, Mr. Hancock (Sam Anderson). On his first bus ride to school, Forrest is rejected by nearly all of his peers except for Jenny Curran (Hanna R. Hall). He and Jenny become best friends, and he helps her hide from her abusive, alcoholic father. One day, while fleeing from bullies, Forrest's leg braces break apart and he discovers that he can run very fast. A few years later, Forrest inadvertently runs onto the field during a local high school football match and catches the attention of Coach Bryant from the University of Alabama who is scouting for players. Forrest attends the university on an athletic scholarship and becomes a college football star, earning him a spot on the College Football All-America Team and a trip to the White House to meet President John F.