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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 Kelly Clarkson Show
The Simpsons
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Graham Norton Show
The Oscars
Saturday Night Live
The Love Boat
Bambi
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Grammys
The Colbert Report
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Golden Globe Awards
Entertainment Tonight
30 Rock
Taxi
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Late Show with David Letterman
Tales from the Crypt
Parkinson
Happy Days
Jeopardy!
Today
Last Meals
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Daily Show
Celebrities Uncensored
Family Ties
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The American Revolution
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
We're Back! With Brian Williams
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
Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20
Prohibition
The Celluloid Closet
Halftime
The Making of Toy Story
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys
The Concert for Valor
The Phoenician Scheme
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Toy Story of Terror!
Asteroid City
Quincy
Pinocchio
Saving Mr. Banks
You've Got Mail
Elvis
The Circle
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Dragnet
Catch Me If You Can
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Sleepless in Seattle
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
Partysaurus Rex
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
The Post
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
Into the Breach: Saving Private Ryan
A League of Their Own
Inferno
Toy Story
Apollo 13
Toy Story 2
Finch
Toy Story 3
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Here
Joe Versus the Volcano
Small Fry
Sully
Forrest Gump
The Terminal
A Man Called Otto
Hawaiian Vacation
The 'Burbs
The Polar Express
Splash
Bridge of Spies
The Money Pit
The Americas
Charlie Wilson's War
Cast Away
Toy Story 6
Angels & Demons
Big
Philadelphia
Road to Perdition
The Bloody Hundredth
A Hologram for the King
Greyhound
Toy Story 4
Toy Story 5
The Man with One Red Shoe
Cloud Atlas
News of the World
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
California Typewriter
Captain Phillips
Larry Crowne
Saving Private Ryan
The Da Vinci Code
From the Earth to the Moon
World War II with Tom Hanks
The Green Mile
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Production Credits
From the Earth to the Moon
Evan Almighty
The Circle
Big Love
The Ant Bully
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
The Movies
Mamma Mia!
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
John Adams
Tales from the Crypt
The Bloody Hundredth
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Parkland
A Man Called Otto
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
The Pacific
Charlie Wilson's War
My Big Fat Greek Life
Band of Brothers
City of Ember
Masters of the Air
The Polar Express
Cast Away
Where the Wild Things Are
Olive Kitteridge
Fallen Angels
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
The American Experiment
Untitled Berlin Noir Series
Greyhound
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Larry Crowne
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
News of the World
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