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