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