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