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