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