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