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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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The Simpsons
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Oscars
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Love Boat
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Golden Globe Awards
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
From the Earth to the Moon
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
The Naked Truth
Maya & Marty
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Waking Sleeping Beauty
The Walk
The Bloody Hundredth
Cars
The Simpsons Movie
The Pacific
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
The Celluloid Closet
Prohibition
Halftime
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys
The Concert for Valor
Toy Story of Terror!
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Quincy
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Asteroid City
Madden
Catch Me If You Can
Partysaurus Rex
Dragnet
Elvis
Pinocchio
The War
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
The Post
Sleepless in Seattle
You've Got Mail
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
The Circle
Saving Mr. Banks
Toy Story 4
Cloud Atlas
Here
Hawaiian Vacation
News of the World
Inferno
A League of Their Own
The 'Burbs
Toy Story
Philadelphia
Splash
Big
Charlie Wilson's War
Saving Private Ryan
Finch
A Man Called Otto
Bridge of Spies
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
The Americas
Apollo 13
Cast Away
Larry Crowne
Small Fry
The Da Vinci Code
A Hologram for the King
Road to Perdition
The Polar Express
California Typewriter
Forrest Gump
Greyhound
Toy Story 3
Angels & Demons
Captain Phillips
Toy Story 5
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Man with One Red Shoe
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Sully
The Green Mile
The Money Pit
Toy Story 2
Joe Versus the Volcano
Production Credits
Cast Away
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Charlie Wilson's War
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
The Bloody Hundredth
A Man Called Otto
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
From the Earth to the Moon
Band of Brothers
Parkland
Mamma Mia!
The Movies
Masters of the Air
Big Love
News of the World
The Circle
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
The Pacific
Where the Wild Things Are
The Ant Bully
Olive Kitteridge
Tales from the Crypt
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Greyhound
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Fallen Angels
John Adams
Evan Almighty
Larry Crowne
The Polar Express
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