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  • 8/12/2014 Robin Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Robin Williams

    Williams at the premiere of Happy Feet Two in

    2011

    Born Robin McLaurin Williams

    July 21, 1951

    Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

    Died August 11, 2014 (aged 63)

    Tiburon, California, U.S.

    Nationality American

    Occupation Actor, stand-up comedian, film

    producer, screenwriter

    Spouse(s) Valerie Velardi

    (m. 19781988; divorced)

    Marsha Garces

    (m. 19892008; divorced)

    Susan Schneider

    (m. 20112014; his death)

    Children 3; including Zelda Williams

    Robin WilliamsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 August 11,2014) was an American actor, stand-up comedian, filmproducer, and screenwriter.

    Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV seriesMork & Mindy (19781982), Williams went on to establisha successful career in both stand-up comedy and feature filmacting. His film career included such acclaimed films as TheWorld 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 Popeye(1980), Hook (1991), Aladdin (1992), Mrs. Doubtfire(1993), Jumanji (1995), The Birdcage (1996), Night atthe Museum (2006), and Happy Feet (2006). He alsoappeared in the video "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by BobbyMcFerrin.

    Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor threetimes, Williams received the Academy Award for BestSupporting Actor for his performance in Good Will Hunting.He also received two Emmy Awards, four Golden GlobeAwards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and five Grammy

    Awards.[3][4]

    On August 11, 2014, Williams was found unresponsive at hisresidence in Marin County, California, and was pronounceddead at the scene. According to the Marin County'scoroner's office, the probable cause of death was suicide by

    asphyxiation.[5]

    Contents

    1 Early life and education

    2 Television career

    3 Film roles

    3.1 Disputes with Disney

    4 Stand-up career

    5 Theatre career

    6 Personal life

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    6.1 Marriages and children

    6.2 Family and friends

    6.3 Addiction and health problems

    6.4 Other interests

    6.5 Charity work

    7 Illness and death

    7.1 Reactions

    8 Filmography

    9 References

    10 Bibliography

    11 External links

    Early life and education

    Robin McLaurin Williams[6][7] was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 21, 1951.[8] His mother, Laura McLaurin (ne

    Smith, September 24, 1922 September 4, 2001), was a former model from New Orleans, Louisiana.[9] Hisfather, Robert Fitzgerald Williams (September 10, 1906 October 18, 1987), was a senior executive at FordMotor Company in charge of the Midwest region. His maternal great-great-grandfather was Mississippi senator

    and governor Anselm J. McLaurin.[10] Williams's ancestry included English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, German, and

    French.[11][12][13] He was raised in the Episcopal Church (while his mother practiced Christian Science),[14][15] and

    later authored the comedic list, "Top Ten Reasons to be an Episcopalian."[16] He grew up in Bloomfield Hills,

    Michigan, where he was a student at the Detroit Country Day School,[17] and later moved to Woodacre, MarinCounty, California, where he attended the public Redwood High School in nearby Larkspur, California. Williams

    studied at Claremont McKenna College (then called Claremont Men's College).[18] Williams left Claremont andattained a full scholarship to the esteemed Juilliard School. In between Claremont and Juilliard, he attended the

    College of Marin for theatre.[19] He had two half-brothers: R. Todd Williams (who died August 14, 2007) and

    McLaurin Smith.[20]

    Williams described himself as a quiet child whose first imitation was of his grandmother to his mother. He did not

    overcome his shyness until he became involved with his high school drama department.[21]

    In 1973, Williams was one of only 20 students accepted into the freshman class at Juilliard and one of only twostudents to be accepted by John Houseman into the Advanced Program at the school that year; the other was

    Christopher Reeve.[22] In his dialects class, Williams had no trouble quickly mastering dialects. Williams left Juilliard

    in 1976.[23]

    Television career

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    After appearing in the cast of the short-lived The Richard Pryor Show on NBC, Williams was cast by Garry

    Marshall as the alien Mork in a 1978 episode of the hit TV series Happy Days[2] after impressing the producer

    with his quirky sense of humor when he sat on his head when asked to take a seat for the audition.[24] As Mork,Williams improvised much of his dialogue and physical comedy, speaking in a high, nasal voice. Mork's appearancewas so popular with viewers that it led to a spin-off hit television sitcom, Mork & Mindy, which ran from 1978 to1982; the show was written to accommodate Williams's improvisations. Although he played the same character asin his appearance in Happy Days, the show was set in the present day, in Boulder, Colorado, instead of the late1950s in Milwaukee. Mork was an extremely popular character, featured on posters, coloring books, lunchboxes,

    and other merchandise.[25]

    Starting in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Williams began to reach a wider audience with his stand-upcomedy, including three HBO comedy specials, Off The Wall (1978), An Evening with Robin Williams (1982),

    and Robin Williams: Live at the Met (1986). Also in 1986, Williams co-hosted the 58th Academy Awards.[26]

    His stand-up work was a consistent thread through his career, as seen by the success of his one-man show (andsubsequent DVD) Robin Williams: Live on Broadway (2002). He was voted 13th on Comedy Central's list "100

    Greatest Stand-ups of All Time" in 2004.[27]

    Williams and Billy Crystal appeared in an unscripted cameo at the beginning of an episode of the third season of

    Friends. They were in the building where the show was shooting and were asked to improvise their lines.[28]

    Williams appeared on an episode of the American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Season 3, Episode 9:November 16, 2000). During a game of "Scenes from a Hat", the scene "What Robin Williams is thinking right

    now" was drawn, and Williams stated, "I have a career. What the hell am I doing here?"[29] On December 4, 2010,he appeared with Robert De Niro on Saturday Night Live in the sketch "What Up with That". In 2012, he guest-

    starred as himself in two FX series, Louie and Wilfred.[30]

    In February 2013, CBS announced it had picked up a pilot episode for a David E. Kelley comedy called The

    Crazy Ones starring Williams. The series was officially picked up on May 10, 2013.[31] Williams played SimonRoberts, a father who works with his daughter (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar) in an advertising office. The series

    premiered on September 26, 2013,[32] and was canceled after one season.[33]

    Film roles

    Most of Williams's acting career was in film, although he gave some performances on stage as well (notably asEstragon in a production of Waiting for Godot with Steve Martin). His first film was the 1977 comedy Can I DoIt 'Till I Need Glasses? His performance in Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) earned Williams an Academy

    Award nomination.[2] Many of his roles have been comedies tinged with pathos.[34]

    His role as the Genie in the animated film Aladdin (1992) was instrumental in establishing the importance of starpower in voice actor casting. Williams used his voice talents again in Fern Gully, as the holographic Dr. Know inthe 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence, in the 2005 animated film Robots, the 2006 Academy Award-winningHappy Feet, and an uncredited vocal performance in the film Everyone's Hero. He was also the voice of TheTimekeeper, a former attraction at the Walt Disney World Resort about a time-traveling robot who encounters

    Jules Verne and brings him to the future.[35]

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    Williams at the 62nd Academy

    Awards in 1990 with journalist Yola

    Czaderska-Hayek

    Williams's roles in dramatic films garnered him an Oscar as Best

    Supporting Actor for his role as a psychologist in Good Will Hunting,[2]

    as well as two previous Academy Award nominations for playing anEnglish teacher in Dead Poets Society (1989), and for playing a troubled

    homeless man in The Fisher King (1991).[2] That same year he playedan adult Peter Pan in the movie Hook. Other acclaimed dramatic filmsinclude Moscow on the Hudson (1984), Awakenings (1990), and

    What Dreams May Come (1998).[36] In the 2002 film Insomnia,Williams portrayed a writer/killer on the run from a sleep-deprived Los

    Angeles policeman (played by Al Pacino) in rural Alaska.[37] Also in2002, in the psychological thriller One Hour Photo, Williams played anemotionally disturbed photo development technician who becomes obsessed with a family for whom he has

    developed pictures for a long time.[38]

    In 2006, Williams starred in The Night Listener, a thriller about a radio show host who realizes that a child withwhom he has developed a friendship may or may not exist; that year, he starred in five movies, including Man of

    the Year,[36] was the Surprise Guest at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards,[39] and appeared on an episode of

    Extreme Makeover: Home Edition that aired on January 30, 2006.[40]

    Williams was known for his improvisational skills and impersonations, and his performances frequently involvedimpromptu humor designed and delivered in rapid-fire succession while on stage. According to the Aladdin DVD

    commentary, most of his dialogue as the Genie was improvised.[41]

    At one point, he was in the running to play the Riddler in Batman Forever until director Tim Burton dropped theproject. Earlier, Williams had been a strong contender to play the Joker in Batman. He had expressed interest in

    assuming the role in The Dark Knight, the sequel to 2005's Batman Begins,[42] although the part of the Joker was

    played by Heath Ledger, who won, posthumously, the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.[43]

    He was portrayed by Chris Diamantopoulos in the made-for-TV biopic Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized

    Story of Mork & Mindy (2005), documenting the actor's arrival in Hollywood as a struggling comedian.[44]

    Disputes with Disney

    In gratitude for his success with the Disney-produced Touchstone film Good Morning, Vietnam, Williams voicedthe Genie in the Disney animated film Aladdin for SAG scale pay ($75,000), on condition that his name or imagenot be used for marketing, and his (supporting) character not take more than 25% of space on advertising artwork,since Toys was scheduled for release one month after the debut of Aladdin. Additionally, Williams believed the

    character's voice was his property and did not want it to be imitated.[45] The studio went back on the deal on bothcounts, especially in poster art by having the Genie in 25% of the image, but having other major and supportingcharacters portrayed considerably smaller. Disney's book, Aladdin: The Making of an Animated Film, listedboth of Williams's characters, "The Peddler" and "The Genie", ahead of main characters but was forced to refer to

    him as only "the actor signed to play the Genie".[46]

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    Williams performing a USO

    show at the Aviano Air Base

    for the town's neighborhood

    on December 22, 2007

    Williams and Disney had a bitter falling-out, resulting in Dan Castellaneta's voicing the Genie in The Return ofJafar and the Aladdin animated television series. Castellaneta was also hired for the feature Aladdin and the Kingof Thieves and had completed recording all his lines. When Jeffrey Katzenberg was fired from Disney and replacedby former 20th Century Fox production head Joe Roth (whose last act for Fox was greenlighting Williams's filmMrs. Doubtfire), Roth arranged for a public apology to Williams by Disney. Williams agreed to perform inHollywood Pictures' Jack, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and even agreed to voice the Genie again for the

    King of Thieves sequel (for considerably more than scale), replacing all of Castellaneta's dialogue.[47]

    When Williams re-teamed with Doubtfire director Chris Columbus for Touchstone Pictures Bicentennial Man in1999, Disney asked that the budget be cut by approximately $20 million, and when the film was released onChristmas Day, it flopped at the box office. Williams blamed Disney's marketing and the loss of content the filmsuffered because of the budget cuts. As a result, Williams was again on bad terms with Disney, and Castellanetawas once again recruited to replace him as Genie in the Kingdom Hearts video game series and the House ofMouse TV series. The DVD release for Aladdin has no involvement from Williams in the bonus materials.

    Williams reconciled with The Walt Disney Company and in 2009 agreed to be inducted as a Disney Legend.[48]

    Stand-up career

    Williams did a number of stand-up comedy tours, beginning in the early 1970s.Some of his tours include An Evening With Robin Williams (1982), RobinWilliams: At The Met (1986), and Robin Williams LIVE on Broadway (2002).The latter broke many long-held records for a comedy show. In some cases,

    tickets were sold out within thirty minutes of going on sale.[49]

    After a six-year break, in August 2008, Williams announced a new 26-city tourtitled "Weapons of Self-Destruction". He said that this was his last chance tomake cracks at the expense of the current Bush Administration, but by the timethe show was staged, only a few minutes covered that subject. The tour started atthe end of September 2009 and concluded in New York on December 3, and

    was the subject of an HBO special on December 8, 2009.[50]

    Theatre career

    Williams appeared opposite Steve Martin at Lincoln Center in an Off-Broadway

    production of Waiting for Godot in 1988.[51] He made his Broadway actingdebut in Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, which opened at the

    Richard Rodgers Theatre on March 31, 2011.[52] He headlined his own one-man

    show, Robin Williams: Live on Broadway, that played at The Broadway Theatre in July 2002.[53]

    Personal life

    Marriages and children

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    Williams's residence in Sea Cliff, San

    Francisco

    Williams aboard the

    USS Enterprise in 2003

    On June 4, 1978, Robin Williams married his first wife, Valerie Velardi.Their son Zachary Pym "Zak" Williams was born on April 11, 1983.During Williams's first marriage, he was involved in an extramaritalrelationship with Michelle Tish Carter, a cocktail waitress whom he metin 1984. She sued him in 1986, claiming that he did not tell her he wasinfected with the herpes simplex virus before he embarked on a sexualrelationship with her in the mid-1980s, during which, she said, hetransmitted the virus to her. The case was settled out of court. Williams

    and Velardi divorced in 1988.[54][55]

    On April 30, 1989, he married Marsha Garces, a Filipino American andZachary's nanny, who was several months pregnant with his child. Theyhad two children, Zelda Rae Williams (born July 31, 1989) and CodyAlan Williams (born November 25, 1991). In March 2008, Garces filed for divorce from Williams, citing

    irreconcilable differences.[55][56]

    Williams married his third wife, graphic designer Susan Schneider, on October 23, 2011, in St. Helena,

    California.[57] Their residence was Williams's house in Sea Cliff, a neighborhood in San Francisco,

    California.[55][58][59]

    Of what gives him a sense of wonder, Williams stated, "My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see

    them develop into these extraordinary human beings." [60]

    Family and friends

    While studying at Juilliard, Williams befriended Christopher Reeve. They had several classes together in which theywere the only students, and they remained good friends for the rest of Reeve's life. Williams visited Reeve after thehorse-riding accident that rendered him a quadriplegic, and cheered him up by pretending to be an eccentricRussian doctor (similar to his role in Nine Months). Williams claimed that he was there to perform a colonoscopy.

    Reeve stated that he laughed for the first time since the accident and knew that life was going to be okay.[22]

    On August 14, 2007, Williams's elder brother, Robert Todd Williams, died of

    complications from heart surgery performed a month earlier.[61][62]

    Addiction and health problems

    During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Williams had an addiction to

    cocaine.[2][63] Williams was a close friend of and frequent partier alongside JohnBelushi. He said the death of his friend and the birth of his son Zak prompted himto quit drugs and alcohol: "Was it a wake-up call? Oh yeah, on a huge level. The

    grand jury helped too."[2]

    Williams started drinking alcohol again in 2003, while working in a small town in

    Alaska.[63] On August 9, 2006, he checked himself in to a substance-abuserehabilitation center in Newberg, Oregon. He later said that he was an

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    Williams speaking at the

    2008 BBC World Debate

    alcoholic.[64] His publicist delivered the announcement:

    After 20 years of sobriety, Robin Williams found himself drinking again and has decided to take

    proactive measures to deal with this for his own well-being and the well-being of his family.[65]

    While acknowledging his failure to maintain sobriety, Williams would never return to use of cocaine, declaring in a2010 interview:

    "No. Cocaine paranoid and impotent, what fun. There was no bit of me thinking, ooh, let's go backto that. Useless conversations until midnight, waking up at dawn feeling like a vampire on a day pass.

    No."[66]

    Williams was hospitalized in March 2009 due to heart problems. He postponed his one-man tour in order to

    undergo surgery to replace his aortic valve.[67][68] The surgery was successfully completed on March 13, 2009, at

    the Cleveland Clinic.[69][70]

    Other interests

    Williams was a member of the Episcopal Church. He described his denomination in a comedy routine as "Catholic

    Litesame rituals, half the guilt."[71]

    Williams was an avid enthusiast of video games and named two of his childrenafter game characters. He named his daughter after Princess Zelda from The

    Legend of Zelda action-adventure game series.[72][73][74] They both have beenfeatured in an ad for the Nintendo 3DS remake of The Legend of Zelda:

    Ocarina of Time.[75] His son may have been named after Cody from the beat

    'em up game Final Fight.[76] He also enjoyed pen-and-paper role-playinggames and online video games, playing Warcraft 3, Day of Defeat, Half-

    Life,[77] and the first-person shooter Battlefield 2 as a sniper.[78] He was also

    previously a fan of the Wizardry series of role-playing video games.[79]

    On January 6, 2006, Williams performed live at the Consumer Electronics Show

    during Google's keynote.[80] In the 2006 E3, on the invitation of Will Wright, hedemonstrated the creature editor of Spore while simultaneously commenting on

    the creature's look: "This will actually make a platypus look good."[81] He alsocomplimented the game's versatility, comparing it to Populous and Black &White. Later that year, he was one of several celebrities to participate in the Worldwide Dungeons & Dragons

    Game Day.[82]

    Williams' favorite book was the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, the actor expressed enthusiasm at the idea of

    playing the character Hari Seldon in an adaptation.[83] His favorite book growing up as a child was The Lion, TheWitch and The Wardrobe, which he later shared with his children, "I would read the whole C.S. Lewis series outloud to my kids. I was once reading to Zelda, and she said 'Don't do any voices. Just read it as yourself.' So I did, I

    just read it straight, and she said 'That's better.'"[84]

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    Williams performing at Camp Victory

    for the USO on December 13, 2010

    A fan of professional road cycling, Williams was a regular on the US Postal and Discovery Channel Pro Cycling

    team bus and hotels during the years Lance Armstrong dominated the Tour de France.[85] He owned over 50

    bicycles.[86]

    Williams enjoyed rugby union and was a fan of a former All Black, Jonah Lomu.[87]

    Williams enjoyed listening to jazz, "specifically Keith Jarrett piano solos".[84] He also listened to Tom Waits,

    Radiohead, and Prince.[84]

    Williams was a supporter of eco-friendly vehicles. He drove a Toyota Prius[88] and was on the waiting list for an

    Aptera 2 Series electric vehicle before the company folded in December 2011.[89]

    In 2010, Williams announced that he would love to play the Riddler in the next installment to the Batman films by

    director Christopher Nolan, though Nolan has stated that the Riddler would not be featured in the film.[90]

    On Israel's 60th Independence Day in 2008, Williams appeared in Times Square along with a number of other

    celebrities to wish Israel a "happy birthday".[91][92] He described himself as an "honorary Jew".[93][94][95]

    Charity work

    Williams and his former wife, Marsha, founded the Windfall Foundation,a philanthropic organization to raise money for many charities. Williamsdevoted much of his energy to charity work, including the Comic Relieffundraising efforts (the program was hosted by himself, Billy Crystal, and

    Whoopi Goldberg).[2] In December 1999, he sang in French on theBBC-inspired music video of international celebrities doing a cover ofThe Rolling Stones' "It's Only Rock & Roll" for the charity Children's

    Promise.[96]

    In response to the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, Williams donated allproceeds of his "Weapons of Self Destruction" Christchurch performanceto helping rebuild the New Zealand city. Half the proceeds were donated

    to the Red Cross and half to the mayoral building fund.[97] Williams performed with the USO for U.S. troops

    stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.[98]

    Williams also supported St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for several years.[99]

    Illness and death

    According to his publicist, Williams suffered from depression,though he would not confirm the reports that the death was by

    suicide.[101] In summer 2014, Williams had admitted himself into"Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, agenie, a nanny, a president, a professor, abangarang Peter Pan, and everything inbetween. But he was one of a kind. Hearrived in our lives as an alien but he ended

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    Barack Obama[100]

    the Hazelden Addiction Treatment Center in Lindstrom,Minnesota, for continued sobriety treatment related to his

    alcoholism.[102]

    Williams was discovered by an unidentified person at his home inTiburon, California on August 11, 2014. After emergency 911dispatchers received a call reporting Williams was unresponsiveand not breathing, emergency personnel arrived on-scene ataround 11:55 a.m. PDT. He was pronounced dead shortly after,

    at 12:02 p.m.[103][104] The Coroner Division of Marin Countysuspects the death to be suicide by asphyxia, pending

    investigation.[105][106] A forensic examination and toxicology test is scheduled for August 12.[107]

    Reactions

    Williams' wife, Susan Schneider, said: "I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most

    beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken."[108]

    U.S. President Barack Obama responded on Williams' death, saying, "He was one of a kind. He arrived in our

    lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit."[100] Fellow comedian Steve Martinwrote on Twitter: "I could not be more stunned by the loss of Robin Williams, mensch, great talent, acting partner,

    genuine soul."[109][110]

    Filmography

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