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