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