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