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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
The Simpsons
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Love Boat
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Oscars
Golden Globe Awards
30 Rock
Taxi
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Colbert Report
Tales from the Crypt
Happy Days
Today
SNL Digital Shorts
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
The Greatest Event in Television History
Fallen Angels
1883
Primetime Glick
The Naked Truth
Maya & Marty
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Waking Sleeping Beauty
The Walk
The Bloody Hundredth
Cars
The Simpsons Movie
The Pacific
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
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
Toy Story of Terror!
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Asteroid City
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Quincy
The Circle
The Post
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
Madden
Partysaurus Rex
Pinocchio
Elvis
Sleepless in Seattle
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Dragnet
Catch Me If You Can
You've Got Mail
Toy Story 5
The War
Saving Mr. Banks
Toy Story 2
A Hologram for the King
Toy Story
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Green Mile
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
Splash
The Americas
Inferno
Bridge of Spies
Greyhound
Larry Crowne
Here
Captain Phillips
Big
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Cast Away
California Typewriter
The 'Burbs
The Man with One Red Shoe
The Money Pit
News of the World
Finch
The Polar Express
Forrest Gump
Angels & Demons
Road to Perdition
Saving Private Ryan
Toy Story 4
A Man Called Otto
Joe Versus the Volcano
Small Fry
The Da Vinci Code
From the Earth to the Moon
Sully
Toy Story 3
Cloud Atlas
Charlie Wilson's War
Hawaiian Vacation
A League of Their Own
Philadelphia
Apollo 13
Production Credits
The Movies
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Evan Almighty
Charlie Wilson's War
Where the Wild Things Are
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Big Love
Band of Brothers
The Bloody Hundredth
Cast Away
The Circle
The Pacific
Larry Crowne
Masters of the Air
Parkland
The Polar Express
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Olive Kitteridge
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Fallen Angels
Greyhound
A Man Called Otto
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
News of the World
From the Earth to the Moon
Tales from the Crypt
The Ant Bully
Mamma Mia!
John Adams
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