Gone too soon...

Robin Williams was born July 21st, 1951 in Chicago. I was born September 21st, 1951 in St. Louis. Always felt an affinity with Robin. On more than one occasion, his skills as an actor moved me to tears. We lost Robin McLaurin Williams too soon.

“Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters he created on the spur of the moment and portrayed on film, in dramas and comedies alike, he is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of all time.”

https://youtu.be/FBg0d63ZHbk
Robin Williams Come Inside My Mind

Williams began performing stand-up comedy in San Francisco and Los Angeles during the mid-1970s, and rose to fame playing the alien Mork in the ABC sitcom Mork & Mindy (1978–1982).

https://youtu.be/AlNVEKrMoOw
Robin Williams is in town to do a live Solar Energy Benefit show and Mindy can’t get an interview. Mork doesn’t think he looks anything like Robin Williams, but he gets chased by a mob of fans. Mork gets Mindy and himself into Robin Williams’ dressing room, leading to a face-to-face interview with him.

After his first leading film role in Popeye (1980),

https://youtu.be/C6pJiZ-wwAY
The adventures of the sailor man and his friends in the seaside town of Sweethaven. Director: Robert Altman Writers: Jules Feiffer (screenplay), E.C. Segar (based on characters by) Stars: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston

Robin starred in several critically and commercially successful films, including

The World According to Garp (1982),
https://youtu.be/BUB8v-DNDqc 1080p the world according to garp (1982) eng subs

Moscow on the Hudson (1984),
https://youtu.be/_aoRx8phHQw Moscow On The Hudson: Bloomingdale’s Escape: “Robin Williams will make you laugh and cry as a freedom-loving Soviet defector in this brilliant, thought-provoking romantic comedy. Circus saxophonist Vladimir Ivanoff (Williams) suddenly defects from his touring troupe in that temple of Western decadence – Bloomingdale’s. Fleeing the K.G.B., Vladimir wins asylum and moves into the crowded Harlem flat of black security guard Lionel Witherspoon (Cleavant Derricks). Soon he has found both a voluptuous Italian lover Lucia Lombardo (Maria ConchitaAlonso), and a shrewd Cuban lawyer Orlando Ramirez (Alejandro Rey). Though Vladimir learns that life in America can be cold and even painful, he grows to love this strange and wondrous new land. Director Paul Mazursky has truly transformed Vladimir’s declaration of independence into a very memorable film.

Good Morning, Vietnam (1987),
https://ok.ru/video/993485195814
Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 Full Movie Welcome To The Movies And Television Radio funny man Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) is sent to Vietnam to bring a little comedy back into the lives of the soldiers. After setting up shop, Cronauer delights the G.I.s but shocks his superior officer, Sergeant Major Dickerson (J.T. Walsh), with his irreverent take on the war. While Dickerson attempts to censor Cronauer’s broadcasts, Cronauer pursues a relationship with a Vietnamese girl named Trinh (Chintara Sukapatana), who shows him the horrors of war first-hand.

Dead Poets Society (1989),
https://vimeo.com/402698990
Dead Poets Society

Awakenings (1990),
https://youtu.be/ThSQFC_5ToU By opening one man’s eyes to the world… he opened his own. Robert De Niro (in an Oscar®-nominated performance) and Robin Williams star in this powerful, true story of a maverick doctor and the patients whose lives he changes. Williams plays Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to “awaken” the catatonic victims of a rare disease. De Niro co-stars as Leonard, the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life’s simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor. Encouraged by Leonard’s stunning recovery, Sayer administers the drug to the other patients. The story of their friendship during this emotional journey is a testament to both the tenderness of the human heart and the strength of the human soul.

The Fisher King (1991), https://youtu.be/kqxCu3ZPxAY (this link stoppped working)*
A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.
*try this one https://pluto.tv/on-demand/movies/5b805a9053abc1a358059a81?

Patch Adams (1998), https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6t2xf8 Patch Adams P0

One Hour Photo (2002), https://youtu.be/oNalV32qtx4
One Hour Photo 2002 Full Movie Robin Williams

and World’s Greatest Dad (2009). https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5s7pq2
Worlds.Greatest.Dad.2009.LIMITED P1

Robin Williams also starred in box office successes such as
Hook (1991), https://youtu.be/7Yty_66X9Us
Hook: The End of Captain Hook (Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman Scene)

Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), https://youtu.be/hbamQ7wF1BwAfter a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife.

Jumanji (1995), https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8mnh2w
https://youtu.be/2QKg5SZ_35I JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE – Official Trailer

The Birdcage (1996), https://youtu.be/65zrAtyEHCA Two different worlds crash together as Robin Williams and Nathan Lane do their best to impress their son’s soon to be in-laws The Birdcage (1996) Directed By Mike Nichols Screenplay by Elaine May Cast: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, and Dianne Wiest

Good Will Hunting (1997), https://youtu.be/ReIJ1lbL-Q8

Starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck, ‘Good Will Hunting’ shows the most brilliant mind at America’s top university isn’t a student, he’s the kid who cleans the floors. Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will’s last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him. Finally forced to deal with his past, Will discovers that the only one holding him back is himself. Starring, in alphabetical order: Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Cole Hauser, Matt Damon, Minnie Driver, Robin Williams, Stellan Skarsgård

and the Night at the Museum trilogy (2006–2014). https://youtu.be/rscG5nkQ5Bk
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM Trilogy Trailers (2006 – 2014) Ben Stiller

Robin Williams was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning Best Supporting Actor for Good Will Hunting. He also received two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and five Grammy Awards.

On August 11, 2014, at age 63, Williams died by suicide at his home in Paradise Cay, California. His autopsy revealed undiagnosed Lewy body disease.

… Williams’s initial condition included a sudden and prolonged spike in fear and anxiety, stress and insomnia, which worsened in severity to include memory loss, paranoia, and delusions. According to Schneider, “Robin was losing his mind and he was aware of it … He kept saying, ‘I just want to reboot my brain.'”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Williams

Williams was found dead in his home in Paradise Cay, California, on August 11, 2014.[161] The final autopsy report, released in November 2014, concluded that Williams’ death was a suicide resulting from “asphyxia due to hanging”. Neither alcohol nor illegal drugs were involved, and prescription drugs present in his body were at therapeutic levels. The report also noted that Williams had depression and anxiety. An examination of his brain tissue suggested Williams had “diffuse Lewy body dementia”.

Describing the disease as “the terrorist inside my husband’s brain”, his widow Susan Schneider Williams said that “however you look at it—the presence of Lewy bodies took his life”, referring to his previous diagnosis of Parkinson’s. She also revealed that in the year before his death, Williams had experienced a sudden and prolonged spike in fear and anxiety, depression, and insomnia, which worsened in severity to include memory loss, paranoia, and delusions. She noted “how we as a culture don’t have the vocabulary to discuss brain disease in the way we do about depression. Depression is a symptom of LBD and it’s not about psychology – it’s rooted in neurology. His brain was falling apart.” Medical experts struggled to determine a cause, and eventually diagnosed him with Parkinson’s disease.