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