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