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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 Oscars
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Golden Globe Awards
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
Entertainment Tonight
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
Family Ties
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Honest Trailers
The Wonderful World of Disney
Fallen Angels
The Greatest Event in Television History
SNL Digital Shorts
1883
Primetime Glick
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
The Celluloid Closet
Prohibition
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
Quincy
Asteroid City
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Toy Story of Terror!
Sleepless in Seattle
Elvis
Catch Me If You Can
Madden
Partysaurus Rex
The Post
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
The Circle
Dragnet
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
You've Got Mail
Pinocchio
Saving Mr. Banks
Toy Story 5
Angels & Demons
The Money Pit
From the Earth to the Moon
Philadelphia
Road to Perdition
A League of Their Own
California Typewriter
A Man Called Otto
Sully
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
Joe Versus the Volcano
Greyhound
Toy Story 3
The 'Burbs
The Man with One Red Shoe
Splash
The Bloody Hundredth
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Apollo 13
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Inferno
Charlie Wilson's War
Toy Story
The Polar Express
Here
Captain Phillips
Finch
The Americas
Bridge of Spies
Big
Saving Private Ryan
The Da Vinci Code
Hawaiian Vacation
Small Fry
A Hologram for the King
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Cloud Atlas
Forrest Gump
The Green Mile
Cast Away
Toy Story 4
Toy Story 2
News of the World
Larry Crowne
Production Credits
Parkland
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Larry Crowne
From the Earth to the Moon
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Untitled Berlin Noir Series
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Where the Wild Things Are
Evan Almighty
A Man Called Otto
Greyhound
The Pacific
Cast Away
The Bloody Hundredth
John Adams
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Olive Kitteridge
The Ant Bully
Fallen Angels
The Movies
The Circle
Tales from the Crypt
Mamma Mia!
News of the World
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Masters of the Air
Band of Brothers
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
Charlie Wilson's War
Big Love
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
City of Ember
The Polar Express
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