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