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