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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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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Simpsons
The Graham Norton Show
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Love Boat
Bambi
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Oscars
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Entertainment Tonight
30 Rock
Golden Globe Awards
Taxi
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Colbert Report
Tales from the Crypt
Parkinson
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
The Greatest Event in Television History
1883
Primetime Glick
Ruby Wax Meets
The Naked Truth
Maya & Marty
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Waking Sleeping Beauty
The Walk
Cars
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
The Simpsons Movie
The Pacific
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
Freaky Tales
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
The Phoenician Scheme
Asteroid City
Quincy
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Toy Story of Terror!
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Sleepless in Seattle
The Circle
You've Got Mail
Partysaurus Rex
Toy Story 5
The Post
Dragnet
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
Elvis
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
Saving Mr. Banks
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Catch Me If You Can
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Madden
Pinocchio
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Terminal
Greyhound
Forrest Gump
The 'Burbs
News of the World
Splash
The Americas
The Polar Express
The Money Pit
Bridge of Spies
Sully
Saving Private Ryan
Toy Story 2
Here
A Hologram for the King
California Typewriter
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
Larry Crowne
The Bloody Hundredth
Toy Story 4
Toy Story
A Man Called Otto
Small Fry
The Man with One Red Shoe
Charlie Wilson's War
Angels & Demons
Captain Phillips
Big
Cast Away
Apollo 13
The Green Mile
Toy Story 3
From the Earth to the Moon
The Da Vinci Code
Inferno
Road to Perdition
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Joe Versus the Volcano
Hawaiian Vacation
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Finch
Cloud Atlas
Philadelphia
A League of Their Own
Production Credits
Where the Wild Things Are
Cast Away
The Ant Bully
Untitled Berlin Noir Series
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
The Bloody Hundredth
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
Mamma Mia!
Charlie Wilson's War
A Man Called Otto
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Untitled Berlin Noir Series
Fallen Angels
From the Earth to the Moon
The Movies
Masters of the Air
Tales from the Crypt
The Polar Express
Olive Kitteridge
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
News of the World
Evan Almighty
The Pacific
City of Ember
John Adams
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Larry Crowne
Big Love
Parkland
Band of Brothers
Greyhound
The Circle
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