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