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