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