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