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