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