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Robin Williams was an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series "Mork & Mindy", and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He co=hosted the 58th Academy Awards in 1986 with Alan Alda and Jane Fonda. On August 11, 2014, Williams died of suicide by hanging himself.

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  • Robin Williams was an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series "Mork & Mindy", and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He co=hosted the 58th Academy Awards in 1986 with Alan Alda and Jane Fonda. On August 11, 2014, Williams died of suicide by hanging himself.
  • Robeĉjo ŬILJEMZ (barbarlingve Robin Williams) estas populara usona aktoro, ŝercisto kaj transvestulo kiu gajnis Akademian Premion pro subtena rolo en 1997-a-jara filmo Bonvola ĉasado. Kiel aktoro, li estis stelulo de televido, teatro, kaj filmo.
  • Robin Williams (born July 21, 1951; died August 11, 2014) was an American stand-up comedian and game show contestant. He was best known for his stand-up comedy roles, theater roles, television roles, and movie roles. His movie credits include Popeye, Flubber, Jumanji, Awakenings, and Good Morning, Vietnam. He was best known as the voice of the Genie in Disney's Aladdin. In the game show industry, he was best known for appearing as a contestant on Whose Line is it Anyway? and Hollywood Squares. Williams died on August 11, 2014 from suicide.
  • Robin McLaurin Williams (21 de Julio de 1951, Chicago, Illinois, Estados Unidos - 11 de Agosto de 2014, Paradise Cay, California, Estados Unidos) fue un actor y comediante estadounidense.
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  • Robin Williams (1951-2014) was an American actor.
  • Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 - August 11, 2014) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Grammy Award-winning American actor and comedian.
  • Robin Williams è uno dei più noti attori viventi[citazione necessaria] americani. Molti lo definiscono comico, altri dicono che "invece alla fine boh per esempio non mi ricordo chi è Robin Williams, ma non è quello che cantava Rock Dj?".
  • Williams was nominated for and won an Academy Award for his portrayals of Mr. Keating in Dead Poets Society and Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting respectively. He also won several Golden Globe Awards. Williams was nominated for an 2008 Emmy Award for his role on Special Victims Unit, but lost the award to actor Glynn Turman. Robin Williams hung himself on August 11, 2014, at the age of 63.
  • Für seine Darstellung des Mathematik-Professors Gerald Lambeau in Good Will Hunting (1997) erhielt er einen Academy Award (Oscar) als bester Nebendarsteller.
  • Do wszystkich mówi szefie, najchętniej do szefów kuchni i pociągu. Grał w piłkę nożną, ale się przebiła. Lubi improwizować w filmach i psuć z pietyzmem układany przez scenarzystów scenariusz. Mówi po francusku, ale francuski dubbing swoich filmów zostawia innym. Nazwał córkę Zelda – od gry konsolowej The Legend of Zelda. Jego rodzice nadali mu imię Robin ponieważ byli fanami Robin Hooda. Ale jego największym marzeniem jest podpisać kontrakt z Turbodymomen. Jego prapra...dziadkiem jest William Szekspir. To właśnie po nim odziedziczył ten komiczny zapał.
  • On August 11, 2014, Williams committed suicide by hanging himself at his home in Paradise Cay, California at age 63.
  • Robin Williams was an American actor who voiced Genie from the 1992 Disney film Aladdin.
  • He's known for voicing Fender Pinwheeler in Robots, Genie in Aladdin and Aladdin and the King of Thieves and Ramon and Lovelace in Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two.
  • Williams briefly studied political science before enrolling at Juilliard to study theatre. After he left Juilliard, he performed in nightclubs, where he was discovered for the role of Mork in an episode of Happy Days and the subsequent Mork & Mindy TV series. Williams' wild comic talent involved a great deal of improvisation, following in the footsteps of his idol, Jonathan Winters. Williams was also an effective dramatic actor, in such films as Dead Poets Society and What Dreams May Come.
  • Robin McLaurim Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. He has also won two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and five Grammy Awards.
  • Williams was interviewed in the December 1997 issue of Nickelodeon Magazine, in promotion of his then-latest picture, Flubber. Williams' only known work for a Nickelodeon production was appearing as himself in the SpongeBob SquarePants special "Truth or Square".
  • Although he studied drama at Julliard (where his roommate was the late Christopher "Superman" Reeve), Robin's preferred stage was to be found in standup comedy clubs. There he was discovered (several times) by TV producers and agents. Technically first appearing on TV in a failed revival of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and The Richard Pryor Show, Robin rose to fame as the zany alien star of Mork and Mindy. In that series, his comedic brilliance at improvisation was so irresistible, the writers decided to bank time in the scripts for Robin to cut loose. During this time he struggled through addictions to cocaine and alcohol, and made his first major movie, Popeye. The movie failed. (His first film was actually a sketch movie called Can I Do It Till I Need Glasses. His scenes were cut out aft
  • Robin McLaurin Williams was an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is best known for his roles as Mork in the 1978-1982 TV series Mork & Mindy, Theodore Roosevelt in the Night at the Museum films, Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting, Daniel Hillard in Mrs. Doubtfire and Genie in Aladdin. Even though Jim Meskimen had been cast as Genie's new official voice actor in 2008, Williams eventually made peace with The Walt Disney Company again and in 2009, he agreed to be inducted into the Disney Hall of Fame, being honored as a Disney Legend.
  • In 1979, he was announced as a guest star on The Muppet Show in an issue of The Muppet Show Fan Club Newsletter, but did not appear on the show. He appeared on the cover of two issues of : Issue 1 (1983) and Issue 14 (1986). He appeared in several Sesame Street segments:
  • Peter Griffin helps Williams with his stand-up act by serving as his jumping-off point in "McStroke". In an interview roleplay in "The Juice Is Loose", Stewie Griffin forcibly co-stars with Williams in a film. Williams appears at a hospital as Patch Adams in "Baby Not On Board". Griffin believes Glenn Quagmire and Cleveland Brown are just as good with kids as Adams is. The dying children do not believe Adams is funny, one going as far as to end his own life by putting himself off life support. Williams' agent Phil assures him he is still funny in "Big Man on Hippocampus".
  • Williams was born in 1951 in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and Marin County, California. While in California, Robin attended Redwood High School in Larkspur and grew up in the suburb of Tiburon. In Michigan, he attended Detroit Country Day School, which boasts other famous alumni, including Steve Ballmer from Microsoft and Courtney Vance from Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Robin's father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, of English, Welsh and Irish descent, was a senior executive at Ford in charge of the Midwest area. Robin's mother Laurie was a New Orleans-born former model of French descent. He has two half-brothers. He described himself as a quiet child whose first imitation was of his grandmother to his mom. He did not overcome his shyness until he became invol
  • Williams first achieved notice for his comedic abilities in the mid-1970s, as a performer at the Holy City Zoo club in San Francisco. His stand-up, retained in consequent performances in TV and film comedies, was characterized by a reliance on speaking extremely quickly, jumping from one subject to the next, and adopting numerous stereotypical voices in the absence of any apparent comic observations or timing. Williams claimed he inherited his impersonation skills from his mother, whose slurred Quebecoise accent he frequently mimicked as a child, and his quick thinking and physical comedy from his father, who he often accompanied during his stints as an "adult baby" on the streets of Hollywood.
  • His film career included acclaimed work such as Popeye (1980), The World According to Garp (1982), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Dead Poets Society (1989), Awakenings (1990), The Fisher King (1991), and Good Will Hunting (1997), as well as financial successes such as Hook (1991), Aladdin (1992), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Jumanji (1995), The Birdcage (1996), Night at the Museum (2006), and Happy Feet (2006). He appeared in the music video for Bobby McFerrin's song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". On August 11, 2014, Williams died of an apparent suicide at his home in Paradise Cay, California
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