Tweet: "Goodbye, DICk Winters. Leader of a company of heroes." Tom Hanks pays tribute to the World War II commander who inspired the actor's hit miniseries BAND OF BROTHERS. Winters passed away on 2 January (11) at the age of 92.
Fact: BAND OF BROTHERS star Damian Lewis' great-grandfather was British royal KING GEORGE V's physician and his grandfather, SIR IAN BOWATER, was London's Lord Mayor in the late 1960s.