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