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