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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 Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Love Boat
Golden Globe Awards
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Oscars
30 Rock
Taxi
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Colbert Report
Tales from the Crypt
Happy Days
Today
SNL Digital Shorts
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
Fallen Angels
1883
Primetime Glick
The Naked Truth
Maya & Marty
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Waking Sleeping Beauty
The Walk
The Bloody Hundredth
Cars
The Pacific
The Simpsons Movie
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
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
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Quincy
Toy Story of Terror!
Asteroid City
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
The Post
The Circle
Elvis
The War
Dragnet
Saving Mr. Banks
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
You've Got Mail
Catch Me If You Can
Partysaurus Rex
Madden
Pinocchio
Sleepless in Seattle
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
Cloud Atlas
Joe Versus the Volcano
Sully
Captain Phillips
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
The Da Vinci Code
Toy Story 2
Angels & Demons
Small Fry
Forrest Gump
Finch
Splash
Inferno
The Americas
A Man Called Otto
Charlie Wilson's War
A League of Their Own
Greyhound
The Polar Express
Toy Story 3
Big
The Money Pit
Bridge of Spies
The Green Mile
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Road to Perdition
Larry Crowne
Cast Away
Apollo 13
The Man with One Red Shoe
Saving Private Ryan
Toy Story 4
Hawaiian Vacation
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
News of the World
Here
California Typewriter
Toy Story
A Hologram for the King
Philadelphia
The 'Burbs
Toy Story 5
Production Credits
The Movies
The Polar Express
The Ant Bully
Mamma Mia!
Where the Wild Things Are
Tales from the Crypt
Olive Kitteridge
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
The Circle
Parkland
Larry Crowne
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Fallen Angels
Band of Brothers
John Adams
The Pacific
Charlie Wilson's War
From the Earth to the Moon
Big Love
The Bloody Hundredth
Greyhound
Masters of the Air
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Cast Away
Evan Almighty
News of the World
A Man Called Otto
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
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