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