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Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, Hanks is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is widely regarded as an American cultural icon. Hanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in the comedies Splash (1984) and Big (1988). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for starring as a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and a young man with below-average IQ in Forrest Gump (1994). Hanks collaborated with film director Steven Spielberg on five films: Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017), as well as the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, which launched him as a director, producer, and screenwriter. Hanks' other notable films include the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), and Cloud Atlas (2012); and the biographical dramas Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Captain Phillips (2013), Sully (2016), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). He has also appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon film series, and has voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Hanks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, Hanks is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is widely regarded as an American cultural icon. Hanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in the comedies Splash (1984) and Big (1988). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for starring as a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and a young man with below-average IQ in Forrest Gump (1994). Hanks collaborated with film director Steven Spielberg on five films: Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017), as well as the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, which launched him as a director, producer, and screenwriter. Hanks' other notable films include the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), and Cloud Atlas (2012); and the biographical dramas Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Captain Phillips (2013), Sully (2016), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). He has also appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon film series, and has voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Hanks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Saturday Night Live
The Simpsons
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Love Boat
Golden Globe Awards
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Oscars
30 Rock
Taxi
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Colbert Report
Tales from the Crypt
Happy Days
Today
SNL Digital Shorts
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Daily Show
From the Earth to the Moon
Celebrities Uncensored
Family Ties
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Honest Trailers
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Greatest Event in Television History
Fallen Angels
1883
Primetime Glick
The Naked Truth
Maya & Marty
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Waking Sleeping Beauty
The Walk
The Bloody Hundredth
Cars
The Pacific
The Simpsons Movie
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
The Celluloid Closet
Prohibition
Halftime
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
The Concert for Valor
A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Quincy
Toy Story of Terror!
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Asteroid City
Pinocchio
Madden
The War
The Circle
Sleepless in Seattle
Catch Me If You Can
You've Got Mail
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Partysaurus Rex
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
Dragnet
Elvis
The Post
Saving Mr. Banks
Joe Versus the Volcano
Toy Story
California Typewriter
Hawaiian Vacation
The Man with One Red Shoe
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
The Polar Express
Big
Cast Away
Here
Small Fry
Toy Story 2
Splash
Charlie Wilson's War
Philadelphia
Road to Perdition
The Money Pit
Sully
Angels & Demons
Toy Story 5
The Americas
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Toy Story 3
A Man Called Otto
The Da Vinci Code
Larry Crowne
Inferno
Saving Private Ryan
Apollo 13
The Green Mile
Cloud Atlas
News of the World
Captain Phillips
A League of Their Own
Toy Story 4
Greyhound
The 'Burbs
A Hologram for the King
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Bridge of Spies
Forrest Gump
Finch
Production Credits
The Circle
Greyhound
The Polar Express
Mamma Mia!
John Adams
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Tales from the Crypt
Big Love
Band of Brothers
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
A Man Called Otto
News of the World
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Where the Wild Things Are
The Bloody Hundredth
Charlie Wilson's War
Parkland
From the Earth to the Moon
Masters of the Air
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
The Pacific
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Fallen Angels
The Movies
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Cast Away
Larry Crowne
Evan Almighty
Olive Kitteridge
The Ant Bully
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