RIP Robin Williams

[Bparso87]

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

Yes that is done I think there is a trailer for the film out right now.

 

[Baldy]

How horrible. I have no words.

 

[Goofyernmost]

I don't think he was ever forgotten though.

It's hard to imagine if one hasn't lived it, but, it seems to me that if anyone has reached a pinnacle, there is no way to go but down. That has got to be harder then never reaching those heights to begin with. I don't know, never experienced it, but, even the distance I have fallen, in prestige and marginal success, I sit and try to figure out what happened and even though I know the answer, (you retired you idiot), I still miss what was there before. What was there before gave me my identity. I can't explain it well, but, I feel that I can relate, even if in a small way.

 

[englanddg]

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



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.

 

[BuddyThomas]

This is heartbreaking. I'm in a crowded restaurant right now and EVERYONE around me is taking about this. So sad.

 

[Marc Gil]

I am speechless... So many greats have been lost this year.

 

[erasure fan1]

Wow too sad. He was one of the best.

 

[englanddg]

This was one of my favorites. And while they modified the story a lot to make it more "appealing", I blame producers for that.

I am a MAJOR Asimov fan, and this is one of my favorite short stories he ever wrote. Hands down in the top 10 short stories for me.

And, I enjoyed it. And, much of that was due to Robin.

 

[Snoopy]

Holy moley.

RIP Robin Williams.

 

[Mike S]

This picture says it all

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

I wonder if they will place anything by his Inventor of The Year Portrait in Imagination at Epcot...

 

[englanddg]

 

[englanddg]

I remember watching a "Making of" documentary for Good Morning Vietnam, and they were talking about how Robin didn't really follow a script for much of the radio spots...rather, he just improvised.

His fellow actor reactions are completely genuine. They couldn't stop laughing.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Robin Williams Speech at the 2009 D23 Disney Legends awards...

 

[englanddg]

This film didn't do well in the box office, but it's one of my favorite ones he ever did. A wonderful mix of comedy and drama that only Robin could have pulled off that well.

 

[Nemo14]

This picture says it all
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I hope you don't mind that I borrowed this for my avatar.

 

[donaldtoo]

I remember when I first realized his range was much more than that of just bein' a funnyman...
"The World According to Garp" in 1982.
Very, very sad.

 

[Mike S]

I hope you don't mind that I borrowed this for my avatar.

I was thinking of doing it but you can have it.

 

[englanddg]

Robin Williams (12-28-90 "Carpe Per Diem". For his hand prints, he did right, left and another right. There are also the names of his second wife, Marsha, and his two children Zak and Zelda. His third child, Cody, was born November 1991 so does not appear.)

(That's the Chinese Theater, you know, that think behind the BAH at Hollywood Studios. He didn't do it at real Theater in LA until 1998)

 

[fractal]

Genie...you're free.

RIP Robin Williams