Jim Hanks, Tom’s brother, has additionally acted in quite a few movies, though his profession would not match by way of quantity or acclaim. As of this writing, Jim Hanks has obtained no Academy Award nominations. Instantly previous to “Forrest Gump,” Jim Hanks made his characteristic movie debut in Mark Pirro’s low-budget intercourse farce “Buford’s Seaside Bunnies.” In that movie, Hanks performs Jeeter Buford, a sex-averse rube who will solely have the ability to inherit his wealthy father’s firm if he copulates. Jeeter’s father presents $100,000 to the primary lady who can seduce him. The movie options characters with names like Beula Lugosi, Boopsie Underall, Dr. Van Horney, Amber Dextrous, and The Superb Foreskin. Having not seen the movie, I can solely assume it is introduced in good style. Jim Hanks would additionally play a personality named Buford in a 2008 horror movie known as “Deadwater.”
Jim Hanks additionally, being Tom’s brother, possessed an analogous voice, face, and gait. The latter was of explicit curiosity to the makers of “Forrest Gump,” who required a “working stand-in” for Hanks. It appears no different actors may fairly nail the Hanks brothers’ peculiar working type. As Jim himself mentioned in Folks: “Tom had different doubles, however they could not do the run. […] That is a silly Hanks factor.” It is value noting that Jim and Tom didn’t develop up collectively, as Jim stayed along with his mother after his dad and mom acquired divorced, and Tom went to reside along with his dad. They ultimately began interacting extra after “Forrest Gump.”
On a 1995 episode of “A Present Affair,” it was posited that Jim and Tom shared lots of bodily mannerisms between Forrest Gump and Jeeter Buford, and that Tom both took notes or, extra probably, maybe simply had a selected means of shifting that neither brother may keep away from.