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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
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Oscars
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Love Boat
Bambi
Golden Globe Awards
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Grammys
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
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Greatest Event in Television History
Fallen Angels
1883
Primetime Glick
The American Revolution
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 War
Prohibition
The Celluloid Closet
Halftime
Making 'Toy Story'
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!
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Quincy
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Asteroid City
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Elvis
You've Got Mail
The Post
Sleepless in Seattle
Toy Story 5
Partysaurus Rex
The Circle
Into the Breach: Saving Private Ryan
Dragnet
Saving Mr. Banks
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
Pinocchio
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
Catch Me If You Can
The Da Vinci Code
California Typewriter
Hawaiian Vacation
From the Earth to the Moon
Small Fry
Joe Versus the Volcano
A League of Their Own
Splash
Toy Story 3
Apollo 13
The Terminal
The 'Burbs
Charlie Wilson's War
Big
Saving Private Ryan
News of the World
Cloud Atlas
Angels & Demons
Captain Phillips
Bridge of Spies
Road to Perdition
Greyhound
Larry Crowne
Cast Away
Sully
Here
The Money Pit
Toy Story
The Man with One Red Shoe
Toy Story 2
Forrest Gump
The Green Mile
A Hologram for the King
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Finch
Toy Story 4
The Polar Express
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Philadelphia
The Americas
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
A Man Called Otto
Inferno
The Bloody Hundredth
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
Production Credits
Larry Crowne
The Bloody Hundredth
Fallen Angels
Where the Wild Things Are
Parkland
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
The Circle
Olive Kitteridge
Band of Brothers
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Mamma Mia!
City of Ember
The Movies
Cast Away
Charlie Wilson's War
Tales from the Crypt
John Adams
Masters of the Air
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
The Ant Bully
From the Earth to the Moon
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
Big Love
News of the World
The Polar Express
The Pacific
Greyhound
Untitled Berlin Noir Series
Evan Almighty
A Man Called Otto
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