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