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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 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
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Golden Globe Awards
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
The Greatest Event in Television History
Fallen Angels
1883
Primetime Glick
The Naked Truth
Maya & Marty
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Waking Sleeping Beauty
The Walk
The Bloody Hundredth
Cars
The Simpsons Movie
The Pacific
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
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
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Quincy
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Toy Story of Terror!
Asteroid City
Elvis
Pinocchio
The Circle
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Madden
You've Got Mail
Saving Mr. Banks
The Post
Dragnet
Partysaurus Rex
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
Catch Me If You Can
Sleepless in Seattle
Toy Story 5
Joe Versus the Volcano
Toy Story 4
Apollo 13
A League of Their Own
Bridge of Spies
The 'Burbs
California Typewriter
A Man Called Otto
Road to Perdition
Cast Away
The Money Pit
Saving Private Ryan
Hawaiian Vacation
Charlie Wilson's War
The Americas
Sully
Toy Story 3
Toy Story 2
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Big
Splash
Toy Story
The Man with One Red Shoe
The Green Mile
Angels & Demons
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Small Fry
News of the World
Captain Phillips
Larry Crowne
Cloud Atlas
The Polar Express
Inferno
Forrest Gump
A Hologram for the King
Greyhound
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
The Da Vinci Code
Here
Philadelphia
Finch
Production Credits
Cast Away
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Olive Kitteridge
Greyhound
John Adams
From the Earth to the Moon
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Band of Brothers
Masters of the Air
Charlie Wilson's War
News of the World
The Ant Bully
Tales from the Crypt
The Polar Express
Evan Almighty
Where the Wild Things Are
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Parkland
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
The Bloody Hundredth
Larry Crowne
Mamma Mia!
The Circle
Big Love
A Man Called Otto
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
The Movies
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Fallen Angels
The Pacific
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