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