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