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