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