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