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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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The Simpsons
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Love Boat
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Oscars
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
1883
Primetime Glick
The Naked Truth
Maya & Marty
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Waking Sleeping Beauty
The Walk
The Bloody Hundredth
Cars
The Simpsons Movie
The Pacific
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
Prohibition
The Celluloid Closet
Halftime
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys
The Concert for Valor
Quincy
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Asteroid City
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Toy Story of Terror!
Partysaurus Rex
Dragnet
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
The War
Catch Me If You Can
Sleepless in Seattle
You've Got Mail
Saving Mr. Banks
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
The Circle
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Pinocchio
The Post
Madden
Elvis
The Green Mile
News of the World
A League of Their Own
Angels & Demons
Apollo 13
Big
Finch
The Money Pit
Toy Story 4
Cast Away
Philadelphia
Toy Story 5
Bridge of Spies
The Americas
A Hologram for the King
Inferno
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
The Da Vinci Code
Greyhound
Toy Story 2
Hawaiian Vacation
Toy Story
Cloud Atlas
Road to Perdition
Toy Story 3
Joe Versus the Volcano
Small Fry
Larry Crowne
Saving Private Ryan
Sully
Captain Phillips
Here
The Polar Express
The 'Burbs
Splash
California Typewriter
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Charlie Wilson's War
The Man with One Red Shoe
Forrest Gump
A Man Called Otto
From the Earth to the Moon
Production Credits
The Circle
Fallen Angels
Tales from the Crypt
Larry Crowne
Charlie Wilson's War
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Olive Kitteridge
The Bloody Hundredth
Parkland
Cast Away
The Pacific
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
A Man Called Otto
John Adams
The Ant Bully
Big Love
From the Earth to the Moon
The Movies
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
Mamma Mia!
Evan Almighty
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Greyhound
News of the World
Band of Brothers
Where the Wild Things Are
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Masters of the Air
The Polar Express
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