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