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Robin Williams has been found dead at 63 from a possible suicide, and early reports suggest it is due to asphyxia.
The comedian and actor was very prolific in his work, and while there’s a large amount of his films which I should catch up on, including Good Will Hunting, for which he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, he was also nominated for a Leading Actor Oscar in three great films I have seen – the one which certainly put him on the movie map, 1987’s Good Morning Vietnam, 1989’s superb Peter Weir drama, Dead Poets Society, and 1991’s Terry Gilliam-directed The Fisher King.
Other great films of his include Cadillac Man (1990), opposite Tim Robbins, Awakenings (1990), Jumanji (1995), RV: Runaway Vacation (2006), plus some superb dramatic roles in the underrated One Hour Photo (2002) and What Dreams May Come (1998).
And of course, his breakthrough TV performance in Mork and Mindy, which ran for almost 100 episodes from 1978 to 1982. Also worth watching is his appearance in a season 3 episode of Louie, “Barney/Never”, starring Louis CK, where they attend the funeral of someone who was anyone but a friend, and in fact a fraudulent bastard. It’s a very well-played non-comedy role from Williams, and I highly recommend it.
It feels weird typing “RIP Robin Williams”, but I remember one of my favourite jokes of his, when he talked about “how to numb breasts”, then simulated putting his head between them and rubbing his face & “Num! Num! Num! Num! Num!”
As well as a third Night at the Museum film, he still has another forthcoming movie in The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, starring as Henry Altmann, a man who is inadvertently told by doctor Mila Kunis that he has just 90 minutes left to live. It also stars Peter Dinklage, James Earl Jones, Melissa Leo, Sutton Foster, Hamish Linklater and Richard Kind, and was released in May in the US, but still hasn’t got a UK release date yet.
Note that, as of Tuesday evening, it was confirmed that Robin Williams had committed suicide and was found hanging, and died due to asphyxia.
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