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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 Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Love Boat
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Graham Norton Show
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
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
SNL Digital Shorts
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
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
The Simpsons Movie
The Pacific
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
Freaky Tales
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
The Phoenician Scheme
Toy Story of Terror!
Asteroid City
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Quincy
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
Dragnet
You've Got Mail
Saving Mr. Banks
The Circle
Elvis
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Madden
Sleepless in Seattle
Catch Me If You Can
The Post
Toy Story 5
Partysaurus Rex
Pinocchio
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Greyhound
Toy Story 4
A Man Called Otto
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Apollo 13
Small Fry
The 'Burbs
Larry Crowne
Road to Perdition
Splash
California Typewriter
The Americas
Toy Story 2
Captain Phillips
Philadelphia
The Da Vinci Code
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
The Green Mile
Hawaiian Vacation
News of the World
Saving Private Ryan
A League of Their Own
Sully
Toy Story
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Forrest Gump
A Hologram for the King
Bridge of Spies
Joe Versus the Volcano
The Money Pit
Charlie Wilson's War
Finch
Cloud Atlas
The Man with One Red Shoe
The Polar Express
Here
Cast Away
Toy Story 3
Big
Angels & Demons
Inferno
Production Credits
From the Earth to the Moon
Parkland
The Pacific
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Charlie Wilson's War
Tales from the Crypt
The Bloody Hundredth
Evan Almighty
Greyhound
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Cast Away
Band of Brothers
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
The Movies
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
John Adams
Mamma Mia!
The Polar Express
News of the World
Larry Crowne
A Man Called Otto
Fallen Angels
City of Ember
Olive Kitteridge
The Circle
Where the Wild Things Are
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
The Ant Bully
Masters of the Air
Big Love
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