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