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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
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Oscars
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Love Boat
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
30 Rock
Golden Globe Awards
Taxi
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Colbert Report
Tales from the Crypt
Happy Days
Today
SNL Digital Shorts
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Daily Show
Celebrities Uncensored
From the Earth to the Moon
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
The Naked Truth
Maya & Marty
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Waking Sleeping Beauty
The Walk
Cars
The Bloody Hundredth
The Simpsons Movie
The Pacific
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
The War
Prohibition
The Celluloid Closet
Halftime
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys
The Concert for Valor
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Toy Story of Terror!
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Asteroid City
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Quincy
Madden
Catch Me If You Can
The Circle
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Pinocchio
Elvis
You've Got Mail
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
Partysaurus Rex
Saving Mr. Banks
Sleepless in Seattle
Dragnet
The Post
Forrest Gump
Toy Story 3
Cast Away
The Polar Express
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
Splash
The Americas
The Green Mile
The Da Vinci Code
Inferno
Small Fry
Saving Private Ryan
Angels & Demons
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Here
The 'Burbs
Captain Phillips
California Typewriter
Toy Story 2
The Money Pit
Toy Story 4
Apollo 13
A League of Their Own
Road to Perdition
A Man Called Otto
Larry Crowne
A Hologram for the King
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Bridge of Spies
Cloud Atlas
Charlie Wilson's War
Finch
Toy Story
Greyhound
Toy Story 5
Big
Sully
News of the World
Philadelphia
The Man with One Red Shoe
Hawaiian Vacation
Joe Versus the Volcano
Production Credits
The Movies
The Pacific
Evan Almighty
Where the Wild Things Are
Masters of the Air
Charlie Wilson's War
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Tales from the Crypt
Big Love
The Bloody Hundredth
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Cast Away
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
The Circle
Parkland
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Olive Kitteridge
Larry Crowne
John Adams
A Man Called Otto
Greyhound
From the Earth to the Moon
Fallen Angels
News of the World
Band of Brothers
The Polar Express
The Ant Bully
Mamma Mia!
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
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