Hollywood may never have known Tom Hanks without TV’s “Happy Days.”
In the show, Hanks played a man who is hell-bent on getting revenge on the Fonz.Linda Purl, Ted McGinley, Henry Winkler and Tom Hanks in the 1982 “Happy Days” episode “A Little Case of Revenge.”Meanwhile, Howard left the Garry Marshall-created series in 1980 to pursue directing, and “Splash” became the first flick to be released under Disney’s new imprint Touchstone Pictures.
“Ron Howard had already left the show, and he was directing, and they had written this movie called ‘Splash,'” Hanks continued. “And it was at Disney, and no one wanted to work for Disney, and no one would take the job. And eventually, they said, ‘Hey, this guy who kicked Fonzie through a plate-glass window might be good.’ And so I ended up auditioning for that.”
Ron Howard and Tom Hanks collaborated on many projects such as “Splash,” “Apollo 13” and “The DaVinci Code.”Alongside Hanks, the romantic comedy starred Daryl Hannah, as a mermaid who washes ashore and falls in love with his character, with support from comedians John Candy and Eugene Levy. The “Forrest Gump” actor seems to be taking a look back at his career lately. In a recent episode of the“For one reason or another, no one references ‘Road to Perdition,’ and that was an incredibly important movie for me to go through,” Hanks said of the Sam Mendes crime drama, based on the 1998 graphic novel by Max Allan Collins. The Depression-era film also starred Jude Law and Daniel Craig, following as a mobster and his son seek vengeance on the man who murdered their family.
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