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