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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 Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Oscars
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Golden Globe Awards
The Love Boat
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Entertainment Tonight
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
Family Ties
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Honest Trailers
The Wonderful World of Disney
Fallen Angels
The Greatest Event in Television History
SNL Digital Shorts
1883
Primetime Glick
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 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
The Phoenician Scheme
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Asteroid City
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Toy Story of Terror!
Quincy
Partysaurus Rex
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
Saving Mr. Banks
Elvis
Pinocchio
Dragnet
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Catch Me If You Can
Madden
Sleepless in Seattle
You've Got Mail
The Circle
The Post
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Greyhound
News of the World
Apollo 13
Inferno
From the Earth to the Moon
California Typewriter
Cloud Atlas
Sully
Road to Perdition
Hawaiian Vacation
A Man Called Otto
Angels & Demons
Here
Splash
Big
Saving Private Ryan
A Hologram for the King
Small Fry
Forrest Gump
Bridge of Spies
Toy Story 4
Captain Phillips
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Finch
A League of Their Own
Charlie Wilson's War
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Da Vinci Code
The Bloody Hundredth
Philadelphia
Cast Away
Toy Story 5
The 'Burbs
The Americas
The Green Mile
The Polar Express
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
Toy Story
Joe Versus the Volcano
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
Larry Crowne
The Man with One Red Shoe
The Money Pit
Production Credits
The Pacific
Mamma Mia!
Band of Brothers
A Man Called Otto
The Polar Express
Where the Wild Things Are
City of Ember
Olive Kitteridge
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
The Ant Bully
News of the World
Big Love
From the Earth to the Moon
Parkland
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Cast Away
Untitled Berlin Noir Series
John Adams
Masters of the Air
The Movies
The Circle
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Tales from the Crypt
Larry Crowne
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Evan Almighty
Charlie Wilson's War
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
The Bloody Hundredth
Greyhound
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Fallen Angels
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