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