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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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The Simpsons
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Graham Norton Show
The Oscars
Golden Globe Awards
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Love Boat
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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
Celebrities Uncensored
From the Earth to the Moon
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
Cars
The Bloody Hundredth
The Simpsons Movie
The Pacific
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
The War
Prohibition
The Celluloid Closet
Halftime
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
The Concert for Valor
A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys
Freaky Tales
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Asteroid City
Quincy
Toy Story of Terror!
The Post
Partysaurus Rex
You've Got Mail
Saving Mr. Banks
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Madden
The Circle
Catch Me If You Can
Pinocchio
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
Dragnet
Elvis
Sleepless in Seattle
Toy Story 4
Cast Away
Angels & Demons
Finch
A Hologram for the King
The Polar Express
Cloud Atlas
Apollo 13
Bridge of Spies
Toy Story
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
California Typewriter
The Money Pit
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
Splash
Toy Story 5
Here
Joe Versus the Volcano
The Da Vinci Code
A League of Their Own
Forrest Gump
Inferno
Road to Perdition
A Man Called Otto
Larry Crowne
Sully
The 'Burbs
Small Fry
Big
Philadelphia
Captain Phillips
The Americas
Saving Private Ryan
Charlie Wilson's War
Hawaiian Vacation
Greyhound
The Green Mile
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
The Man with One Red Shoe
News of the World
Production Credits
The Polar Express
A Man Called Otto
Parkland
The Pacific
News of the World
Masters of the Air
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Larry Crowne
The Bloody Hundredth
The Ant Bully
Fallen Angels
John Adams
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
Big Love
Cast Away
Evan Almighty
Charlie Wilson's War
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
The Circle
Where the Wild Things Are
Mamma Mia!
The Movies
Greyhound
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Olive Kitteridge
From the Earth to the Moon
Band of Brothers
Tales from the Crypt
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
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