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