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