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