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