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