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