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