This clip shows Tom Hanks playing 5 different characters from The Polar Express (2004), but in actuality, he played more than that. Tom Hanks portrayed six distinct characters, including the Conductor, Santa Claus, the Hobo, the Hero Boy's Father, the Scrooge puppet, and both the young and adult versions of the main Hero Boy, and in some reports, even as many as seven characters. He initially intended to play every role in the movie, but the workload was ultimately too much to handle. Credit: Wa