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