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