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