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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 Oscars
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Golden Globe Awards
The Love Boat
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Entertainment Tonight
30 Rock
Taxi
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Colbert Report
Tales from the Crypt
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
SNL Digital Shorts
1883
Primetime Glick
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
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Asteroid City
Quincy
Toy Story of Terror!
Sleepless in Seattle
The Circle
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
You've Got Mail
The Post
Partysaurus Rex
Saving Mr. Banks
Catch Me If You Can
Elvis
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Madden
Pinocchio
Dragnet
Philadelphia
Hawaiian Vacation
A Man Called Otto
The 'Burbs
Toy Story
Road to Perdition
Forrest Gump
Greyhound
Bridge of Spies
The Polar Express
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Captain Phillips
Charlie Wilson's War
Toy Story 3
Larry Crowne
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Americas
The Money Pit
Here
Inferno
Finch
Apollo 13
Cloud Atlas
The Man with One Red Shoe
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
The Green Mile
Toy Story 4
Big
Sully
Saving Private Ryan
Toy Story 2
The Da Vinci Code
Toy Story 5
The Bonfire of the Vanities
A Hologram for the King
Joe Versus the Volcano
Small Fry
News of the World
Cast Away
A League of Their Own
Splash
California Typewriter
Angels & Demons
From the Earth to the Moon
The Bloody Hundredth
Production Credits
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
The Movies
The Circle
John Adams
News of the World
The Bloody Hundredth
Untitled Berlin Noir Series
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
The Polar Express
Greyhound
Parkland
Band of Brothers
Charlie Wilson's War
A Man Called Otto
Fallen Angels
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Cast Away
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
The Pacific
Where the Wild Things Are
The Ant Bully
Olive Kitteridge
City of Ember
Mamma Mia!
From the Earth to the Moon
Tales from the Crypt
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Masters of the Air
Evan Almighty
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Big Love
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Larry Crowne
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