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