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