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