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