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