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