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