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