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