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