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