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