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