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