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