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