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