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