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