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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
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
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
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
Prohibition
The Celluloid Closet
Halftime
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
The Concert for Valor
A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Asteroid City
Quincy
Toy Story of Terror!
Dragnet
Partysaurus Rex
Catch Me If You Can
Elvis
The Circle
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
Pinocchio
The Post
You've Got Mail
Madden
Sleepless in Seattle
The War
Saving Mr. Banks
Angels & Demons
Inferno
A League of Their Own
Apollo 13
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Toy Story 2
Splash
Toy Story 5
Road to Perdition
Philadelphia
Cast Away
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
The 'Burbs
Bridge of Spies
Toy Story 3
Cloud Atlas
Small Fry
Big
Here
Finch
The Da Vinci Code
News of the World
Toy Story
Hawaiian Vacation
The Americas
Captain Phillips
The Money Pit
The Polar Express
The Green Mile
The Man with One Red Shoe
Joe Versus the Volcano
Charlie Wilson's War
Larry Crowne
A Man Called Otto
California Typewriter
Forrest Gump
Sully
Saving Private Ryan
Toy Story 4
Greyhound
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
A Hologram for the King
Production Credits
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Evan Almighty
Band of Brothers
Mamma Mia!
Larry Crowne
Fallen Angels
Greyhound
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
The Circle
A Man Called Otto
Cast Away
The Ant Bully
Tales from the Crypt
Parkland
Big Love
From the Earth to the Moon
Olive Kitteridge
The Movies
John Adams
The Bloody Hundredth
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Where the Wild Things Are
Charlie Wilson's War
The Polar Express
Masters of the Air
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
The Pacific
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
News of the World
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