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