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