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