RIP Robin Williams

[NiarrNDisney]

Well ignore my original post (#2) It is now being discussed on MSNBC

So Sad!

 

[danlb_2000]

When I saw this on Facebook I thought it had to be a joke or hoax. Very sad. One of my favorite Robin Williams moments is from his interview on Inside the Actors Studio. The whole episode is great and you can see some of the highlights in the video below, but this doesn't have my favorite part. At one point he asks for an item from the audience and a woman gives him a scarf. He then proceeds to do at least a 5 minute improv routine using this scarf jumping from one character to another. It is absolutely brilliant.

 

[englanddg]

 

[Hakunamatata]

I had no idea. Still, very sad.

Yep. I recall him saying he had bouts with depression. Some severe. I thought to myself when I saw clips of the most recent TV series he was doing that he looked like he was having to force it.

 

[englanddg]

Ok...this one is...touching...due to the circumstances.

I'll bet a lot of people have forgotten this movie he did...about suicide and depression. It's on Netflix if you haven't seen it, and it's excellent.

 

[englanddg]

Yep. I recall him saying he had bouts with depression. Some severe. I thought to myself when I saw clips of the most recent TV series he was doing that he looked like he was having to force it.

He's been like that the past few movies as well. Just not the same Robin he was. He will be missed.

I used to love it when he'd be on a roast.

 

[Hakunamatata]

I often thought he would have been great cast as The Penguin in a Batman movie.

 

[englanddg]

I often thought he would have been great cast as The Penguin in a Batman movie.

Well, he did play one in Happy Feet, as I recall.

 

[Goofyernmost]

I'm not sure why, but, with all the crap going on in the world, this news depresses me more than anything else that is going on. I don't know if it was because he could always make me laugh, even when I didn't know what he was talking about or because he was close to my age. Just don't know! I do know that I feel inordinately sad about it.

I can only guess that when someone rockets to fame the way he did, always in demand and all of a sudden he is forgotten, it must be a long fall to the bottom. Anyway, I hope that he is able to rest in peace.

 

[Bparso87]

Wow so sad an all time great not to many can have the career he did so many great movies when I was a kid. Just watch birdcage the other day.

 

[plaz10]

I'll be sad to see "good morning Vietnam" in Great Movie Ride on my next trip. He was an amazing actor!

 

[Nemo14]

I'm not sure why, but, with all the crap going on in the world, this news depresses me more than anything else that is going on. I don't know if it was because he could always make me laugh, even when I didn't know what he was talking about or because he was close to my age. Just don't know! I do know that I feel inordinately sad about it.

I can only guess that when someone rockets to fame the way he did, always in demand and all of a sudden he is forgotten, it must be a long fall to the bottom. Anyway, I hope that he is able to rest in peace.

I don't think he was ever forgotten though.

 

[englanddg]

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Another great work from Robin Williams...Back To Neverland
EDIT: Just Found a Cleaner copy!

 

[englanddg]

I don't think he was ever forgotten though.

He was lined up to do a Doubtfire reprise, and has stayed pretty solid as a voice actor the past decade or so (Robots, Happy Feet, off the top of my head)

 

[englanddg]

Another great work from Robin Williams...Back To Neverland

Back when MGM was MGM...

I loved that show. Haven't seen it for years. Thank you.

 

[Bparso87]

He was lined up to do a Doubtfire reprise, and has stayed pretty solid as a voice actor the past decade or so (Robots, Happy Feet, off the top of my head)

I belive he finished filming with a 2015 relase date

 

[Magenta Panther]

So unbelievably awful.

 

[englanddg]

I belive he finished filming with a 2015 relase date

I also think I recall reading he finished filming as Teddy Roosevelt for Night in the Museum 3...?

 

[prberk]

I loved that movie. He really made that role his own.

I'll never be able to listen to the Animation Courtyard music on Live365 the same again.......RIP Mork.

And I have to admit that until I saw your post, I had forgotten that little attraction film on animation that he had done with Walter Cronkite for the Animation Studio Tour at WDW (when it was a tour). I will always remember the scene where he goes onto the ship and they re-color it darkly to demonstrate "a sense of foreboding." It really reminded me how the details help make a movie.

And, of course, we all love the Genie in Aladdin. I wonder if Disney's Broadway Aladdin will dim the lights tonight.

And I am privileged enough to be old enough to have seen him on TV with his mentor, Jonathan Winters. If you can find some clips of them together on YouTube, you will see where he learned to do what he did so well.

But my favorite role of his was from Dead Poets Society.