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