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