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