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