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