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