This article was originally published in 2016 and has been updated with subsequent Tom Hanks films, including Here. You might say there’s a unified theory of Hanks. The actor contains multitudes but is always Tom Hanks.

One of the best Stephen King adaptations, The Green Mile provided for a number of powerful and emotional scenes, but the sequence involving Tom Hanks’ Paul Edgecomb that is particularly charged is the one in which John Coffey (Micahel Clarke Duncan) is executed. Just keep your eyes on Paul’s face the next time you watch it.

American cultural icon, tom Hanks has given his two cents about comic book movies. Hanks believes that the new technologies and visual effects have taken over the true essence of a good film.

He is a national treasure with two Oscars, who has also made some stinkers. Here's all 54 of his live-action movies, ranked.