Robin Williams

Robin McLaurin Williams (Chicago, July 21,

1951 - Tiburon, August 11, 2014 [1]) was a film actor, comedian, television actor and screenwriter US. Actor theater training, get a great popularity on television late seventies interpreting the alien Mork in the TV series Mork & Mindy (1978-1982); later, as evidenced by the conspicuous production mainly concentrated between the eighties and nineties, he starred on the big screen of brilliant roles in films of great success, which was "interpreter from comedy overflowing and fulminant [2], but also" an intense actor and measured in roles less fun "[2].

We must remember the interpretations of Popeye Popeye in Robert Altman (1980), Adrian Cronauer in Good Morning, Vietnam (1987); was also Professor John Keating in The Dead Poets Society Peter Weir (1989), Peter Pan in Hook - Captain Hook in Steven Spielberg (1991), the father disguised as a nanny in Mrs. Doubtfire Chris Columbus (1993). was then protagonist of the film Jumanji (1995) and Patch Adams (1998), as well as the thriller One Hour Photo and Insomnia, both of 2002. More recently, he starred as the President Theodore Roosevelt opposite Ben Stiller in the trilogy of A Night at the Museum (2006, 2009, 2014).

Oscar winner (1998) of 4 nominations, in many films has a duet alongside big stars (Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Jeff Bridges, Al Pacino), maneuvering effectively and demonstrating innate qualities istrioniche.Biografia

Williams was born at St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, on July 21, 1951 to a wealthy family origins of English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, German and French. His father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams (1906-1987), was an executive at Ford Motors, while her mother, Laurie McLaurin (1922-2001), was a model originally from Jackson (Mississippi).

Of solitary nature, as a child he mainly studies and sport. Grows in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he attended the prestigious Country Day School.

In 1967, the Williams family moved to California, where he graduated in 1971 Robin: enrolls, then, in the faculty of political science at Claremont Men's College, where he began his passion for theater. Abandoned his studies, he enrolled at the prestigious institute of dramatic acting, the Juilliard School in New York, with John Houseman as a teacher. It stands out as a mime, earning the first money with some shows. Williams is back in California, in San Francisco, and began his career as a comedian theater. In 1976 exceeds an important audition and later also appeared at The Richard Pryor Show.

In 1977 Garry Marshall suggests the role of Mork, a cute alien, star of the television series Mork & Mindy (spin-off taken from another famous TV series, Happy Days). The character, played from 1978 to 1982, giving it a strong reputation with a wide international audience, imprinted indelibly in the memory of millions of viewers. The distinctive character of the greeting, which appeared between the land spreading his fingers and saying "Na Na-no-no" became a catchphrase.

Since the late seventies and the eighties, Williams plays numerous stand-up comedy and three special episodes of the HBO comedy Off The Wall (1978), An Evening with Robin Williams (1982) and Robin Williams: Live at the Met (1986). His standup work were very important for his career, as he then demonstrated his one man show (also on DVD) Robin Williams Live on Broadway (2002). He was voted 13th on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest stand-ups of all time.The eighties and the blockbuster

At the movies, her first major role is to Popeye in the live-action Popeye - Popeye (1980) by Robert Altman. In 1982, alongside Glenn Close, says in The World According to Garp by George Roy Hill, adapted from the novel by John Irving.

Remember, two years later, Moscow to New York by Paul Mazursky in which Robin impersonates Vladimir Ivanoff, a Russian saxophonist who, on tour in the Big Apple, will confront a world unknown to him. In this film, Robin has demonstrated its ability in playing the sax, that in speaking Russian impeccably.

Robin, in fact, is a polyglot who, in addition to English, spoke fluent Russian, German, French and Spanish, demonstrating the qualities to be a great communicator.

His consecration takes place in Hollywood in 1987 with Good Morning, Vietnam by Barry Levinson, in which Adrian Cronauer, the American military who works as a deejay for the US Army radio, heard daily by soldiers in Vietnam. Williams, free to improvise, receives the first Oscar nomination; does not win the Oscar, but still wins a Golden Globe.Robin Williams at the Oscars in 1990 (photo by Alan Light)

Subsequently, in 1989 he starred in Dead Poets Society (second Oscar nomination): in Peter Weir, Williams plays the role of the professor John Keating, tenacious and revolutionary, unconventional in a high school "old fashioned" and conservative. With this interpretation, in a non-comedic role, the actor is consecrated even in the eyes of the critics who continued to see him as a comedian to film genre.

Followed by other films of success: opposite Robert De Niro in Awakenings (1990) plays the part of Dr. Malcolm Sayer, while in 1991, is a professor of medieval history hit by a lucid madness in The Fisher King.

In 1991 a Peter Pan grew up in Hook - Captain Hook from Steven Spielberg, and the year after, in 1992, Leslie Zevo, the eccentric owner of a particular toy factory in Toys - Toys.

In 1993 he won the audience of young and old in the fun and double role of father and housekeepers in Mrs. Doubtfire - Mammo forever, while two years later he starred in Jumanji.

Famous for his improvisational skills and impersonations, his performances are often overwhelmed by a clever humor and easy. According to the commentary on the DVD of Disney's Aladdin, in which he gave voice to the Genius, most of the dialogues were improvised.Recent yearsRobin Williams during a performance on the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) for the troops of the US Navy during the war in Iraq in 2003; the phrase in Arabic on the shirt (أ حب نيويورك, "Uḥibbu Nyūyūrk") means "I love New York"

Among the successes of recent years are Will Hunting - Genio rebel, 1997, alongside the young rising star Matt Damon, for which he won the statuette for "Best Supporting Actor" and the fantasy film What Dreams May Come.

Continue to know how to toggle comic roles, as in the film fantasy and animation of Disney Flubber - A professor in the clouds, and engaged in serious roles, as in the films sentimental and dramatic Patch Adams, Jakob the Liar and Bicentennial Man.

Subsequently Williams also plays roles darkest, as in Death to Smoochy, One Hour Photo (where a clerk in a photo center, but extremely good-natured and just morbidly attached to his customers who, after being fired, loses his head), Insomnia , The Final Cut and The Night Listener, a thriller about a radio show that is growing friendship with a child who may not exist.

In 2006, the star of five films, including Man of the Year, and is the surprise guest in the Kids' Choice Awards. He also appeared in an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition that was broadcast on January 30, 2006.

It was named by Chris Diamantopoulos in the television documentary Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Mork & Mindy (2005) which starts from the arrival of the actor in Hollywood as a comedian until it was chosen for the role of Mork. In the television program American Inside the Actor's Studio, Pacino said that Williams is one of his favorite actors. In 2011 testimonial with his daughter Zelda video game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D for the Nintendo 3DS platform and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for Nintendo Wii.PrivacyWilliams talks to the BBC in 2008.

In the eighties, Williams made use of cocaine [3], and was present at the tragic night when John Belushi, his great friend, lost his life, killed by an overdose. The two had seen a few hours before the latter's room at the Chateau Marmont, a hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, along with Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Cathy Smith, drug addict and drug dealer who caused the death of injecting Belushi, on explicit request, a dose of speedball [citation needed].

Williams was a great friend of the actor Christopher Reeve, with whom he shared his years of study at the Julliard School in New York. In 1995, Reeve had a riding accident that left him quadriplegic and on this occasion Williams contributed financially to medical assistance and research on the disease [4].

After ten years of marriage, in 1988 he divorced his wife Valerie, by whom he had Zachary, when newspapers revealed his relationship with Marsha Garces, the nanny's child. In 1989 he married Marsha, who bore him two sons. Marsha gave birth to their own production company, Blue Wolf. In 2008 the two announced that they no longer married. October 23, 2011, the actor was married for the third time with Susan Schneider, a graphic designer known in 2009.

In March 2009, following an illness, he had to postpone the four dates of his one-man show Weapons of Self-distruction ("Weapons of self destruction"). His condition worsened to the point that March 5 was hospitalized in intensive care at a hospital in Miami. Although improved, on March 11, the actor underwent an operation for aortic valve replacement and mitral valve repair with a valve of animal tissue. [5].Death

On 11 August 2014, Williams was found dead by firefighters at his home in Paradise Cay near Tiburon in California at 12:02, and pronounced dead two minutes later. [6] [7] The coroner attributed being doubtful the cause of death to asphyxia suspected suicide. [8] In the hours following the police said that the actor committed suicide by hanging himself with a belt. [9] [10] The actor's body was cremated and the ashes scattered in the bay of San Francisco on 12 August. [11] A few days after the death of Williams, the last wife Susan Schneider revealed that the actor had recently found time to be suffering from Parkinson's disease. [12 ] [13] A few days before the autopsy results, published in October 2014, has been ruled out taking drugs or alcohol by the plaintiff at the time of suicide, [14] and it was revealed that the artist suffered from a neurodegenerative disease called Lewy body dementia, a disease that manifests itself especially with frequent visual hallucinations that may have prompted Williams to take his own life