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