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