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