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