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