Robin Williams
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Robin Williams
For other people named Robin Williams, see Robin Williams (disambiguation).
Robin Williams
Williams at the premier of Happy Feet Two in 2011
Birth name
Robin McLaurin Williams
Born
July 21, 1951
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died
August 11, 2014 (aged 63) (asphyxia)
Tiburon, California, U.S.
Medium
Stand-up, film, television
Nationality
American
Years active 1972–2014
Genres
Character comedy, physical comedy, improvisational comedy, satire/political satire, observational comedy, blue comedy
Influences
Peter Sellers, Richard Pryor, Jonathan Winters, George Carlin, Chuck Jones, Spike Milligan
Influenced
Conan O'Brien, Frank Caliendo, Dat Phan, Jo Koy, Gabriel Iglesias, Alexei Sayle, Eddie Murphy
Spouse
Valerie Velardi (m. 1978–88)
Marsha Garces Williams
(m. 1989–2008)
Susan Schneider (m. 2011)
Children
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Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actor
1997 Good Will Hunting
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program
1987 Carol and Carl and Whoopi and Robin
1988 ABC Presents A Royal Gala
Golden Globe Awards
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Best Actor – TV Series Musical or Comedy
1978 Mork & Mindy
Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1987 Good Morning, Vietnam
1991 The Fisher King
1993 Mrs. Doubtfire
Special Achievement Award
1992 Aladdin
Cecil B. Demille Award2005
Grammy Awards
Best Comedy Recording
1980 Reality...What a Concept
1988 ABC Presents A Royal Gala
1988 A Night at the Met
1989 Good Morning, Vietnam
2003 Robin Williams - Live 2002
Best Spoken Word Album
2003 Live 2002
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Outstanding Performance by a Cast - Motion Picture
1996 The Birdcage
Best Supporting Actor
1997 Good Will Hunting
Robin McLaurin Williams[2][3] (July 21, 1951[4] – August 11, 2014) was an American actor, voice actor, and
stand-up comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork & Mindy (1978-1982),
Williams went on to establish a successful career in both stand-up comedy and feature film acting. His film career
included such acclaimed films as Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Dead Poets Society (1989), Awakenings (1990),
The Fisher King (1991), and Good Will Hunting (1997), as well as financial successes such as Popeye (1980), Hook
(1991), Aladdin (1992), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Jumanji (1995), The Birdcage (1996), Night at the Museum (2006),
and Happy Feet (2006). He also appeared in the video to "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin.
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times, Williams went on to receive the Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Good Will Hunting (1997). He also received two Emmy Awards, four
Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and five Grammy Awards.
On August 11, 2014, Williams was found unconscious at his residence and was pronounced dead at the scene. The
coroner's office suggested the cause of death to be suicide by asphyxiation, though it is still under investigation.
Early life
Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Laura McLaurin (née Smith, September 24, 1922 – September
4, 2001), was a former model from New Orleans, Louisiana. His father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams (September 10,
1906 – October 18, 1987), was a senior executive at Ford Motor Company in charge of the Midwest region. His
maternal great-great-grandfather was Mississippi senator and governor Anselm J. McLaurin. Williams' ancestry
includes English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, German, and French.[5] He was raised in the Episcopal Church (while his
mother practiced Christian Science). He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he was a student at the
Detroit Country Day School, and later moved to Woodacre, Marin County, California, where he attended the public
Redwood High School. Williams studied at Claremont McKenna College (then called Claremont Men's College).[6]
In-between Claremont and Juilliard, he attended the College of Marin for theatre. He has two half-brothers: Todd
(who died August 14, 2007) and McLaurin.
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Williams has described himself as a quiet child whose first imitation was of his grandmother to his mother. He did
not overcome his shyness until he became involved with his high-school drama department.
In 1973, Williams was one of only 20 students accepted into the freshman class at the Juilliard School, and one of
only two students to be accepted by John Houseman into the Advanced Program at the school that year, the other
being Christopher Reeve. In his dialects class, Williams had no trouble mastering all dialects quickly. Williams left
Juilliard in 1976.
Television career
After appearing in the cast of the short-lived The Richard Pryor Show on NBC, Williams was cast by Garry Marshall
as the alien Mork in the hit TV series Happy Days after impressing the producer with his quirky sense of humor
when he sat on his head when asked to take a seat for the audition. As Mork, Williams improvised much of his
dialogue and physical comedy, speaking in a high, nasal voice. Mork's appearance was so popular with viewers that
it led to a spin-off hit television sitcom, Mork & Mindy, which ran from 1978 to 1982; the show was written to
accommodate Williams' improvisations. Although he played the same character as in his appearance in Happy Days,
the show was set in the present day, in Boulder, Colorado, instead of the late 1950s in Milwaukee. Mork was an
extremely popular character, featured on posters, coloring books, lunchboxes, and other merchandise.
Starting in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Williams began to reach a wider audience with his standup
comedy, including three HBO comedy specials, Off The Wall (1978), An Evening with Robin Williams (1982), and
Robin Williams: Live at the Met (1986). Also in 1986, Williams co-hosted the 58th Academy Awards.
His stand-up work has been a consistent thread through his career, as is seen by the success of his one-man show
(and subsequent DVD) Robin Williams: Live on Broadway (2002). He was voted 13th on Comedy Central's list "100
Greatest Stand-ups of All Time" in 2004.
Williams, along with Billy Crystal, appeared in a cameo together at the beginning of an episode of the third season
of Friends. Both Williams and Crystal's parts were not originally in the script. They were apparently in the building
where the show was shooting and were asked to improvise their lines. Williams appeared on an episode of the
American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Season 3, Episode 9: November 16, 2000). During a game of
"Scenes from a Hat", the scene "What Robin Williams is thinking right now" was drawn, and Williams stated "I have
a career. What the hell am I doing here?" On December 4, 2010, he appeared with Robert De Niro on Saturday Night
Live in the sketch What Up with That. In 2012, he guest starred as himself in two FX series, Louie and Wilfred.
In February 2013, the CBS network announced it had picked up a pilot episode for a David E. Kelley comedy called
The Crazy Ones that stars Williams. The series was officially picked up on May 10, 2013. Williams plays Simon
Roberts, a father who works with his daughter (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar) in an advertising office. The series
premiered in the Thursday 9/8c timeslot on September 26, 2013.
Film roles
Most of Williams' acting career was in film, although he gave some performances on stage as well (notably as
Estragon in a production of Waiting for Godot with Steve Martin). His first film was the 1977 comedy Can I Do It
'Till I Need Glasses? His performance in Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) resulted in Williams being nominated for
an Academy Award. Many of his roles have been comedies tinged with pathos.
His role as the Genie in the animated film Aladdin (1992) was instrumental in establishing the importance of star
power in voice actor casting. Williams used his voice talents again in Fern Gully, as the holographic Dr. Know in the
2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence, in the 2005 animated film Robots, the 2006 Academy Award-winning Happy
Feet, and an uncredited vocal performance in the film Everyone's Hero. He was also the voice of The Timekeeper, a
former attraction at the Walt Disney World Resort about a time-traveling robot who encounters Jules Verne and
brings him to the future.
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Williams' roles in dramatic films garnered him an Oscar as
Best Supporting Actor for his role as a psychologist in Good
Will Hunting. as well as two previous Academy Award
nominations: for playing an English teacher in Dead Poets
Society (1989), and for playing a troubled homeless man in The
Fisher King (1991). That same year he played an adult Peter
Pan in the movie Hook. Other acclaimed dramatic films
include Awakenings (1990) and What Dreams May Come
(1998). In the 2002 film Insomnia, Williams portrayed a
Williams at the 62nd Academy Awards in 1990 with
journalist Yola Czaderska-Hayek
writer/killer on the run from a sleep-deprived Los Angeles
policeman (played by Al Pacino) in rural Alaska. Also in 2002,
in the psychological thriller One Hour Photo, Williams played an emotionally disturbed photo development
technician who becomes obsessed with a family for whom he has developed pictures for a long time.
In 2006, Williams starred in The Night Listener, a thriller about a radio show host who realizes that a child with
whom he has developed a friendship with may or may not exist; that year, he starred in five movies, including Man
of the Year, was the Surprise Guest at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, and appeared on an episode of Extreme
Makeover: Home Edition that aired on January 30, 2006.
Williams is known for his improvisational skills and impersonations, and his performances frequently involve
impromptu humor designed and delivered in rapid-fire succession while on stage. According to the Aladdin DVD
commentary, most of his dialogue as the Genie was improvised.
At one point, he was in the running to play the Riddler in Batman Forever until director Tim Burton dropped the
project. Earlier, Williams had been a strong contender to play the Joker in Batman. He had expressed interest in
assuming the role in The Dark Knight, the sequel to 2005's Batman Begins, although the part of the Joker was played
by Heath Ledger, who went on to win, posthumously, the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
He was portrayed by Chris Diamantopoulos in the made-for-TV biopic Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story
of Mork & Mindy (2005), documenting the actor's arrival in Hollywood as a struggling comedian.
Disputes with Disney
In gratitude for his success with the Disney-produced Touchstone film Good Morning, Vietnam, Williams voiced the
Genie in the Disney animated film Aladdin for SAG scale pay ($75,000), on condition that his name or image not be
used for marketing, and his (supporting) character not take more than 25% of space on advertising artwork, since
Toys was scheduled for release one month after Aladdin's debut. Additionally, Williams believed the character's
voice was his property and did not want it to be imitated. The studio went back on the deal on both counts, especially
in poster art by having the Genie in 25% of the image, but having other major and supporting characters portrayed
considerably smaller. Disney's Hyperion book, Aladdin: The Making Of An Animated Film, listed both of Williams'
characters, "The Peddler" and "The Genie", ahead of main characters but was forced to refer to him only as "the
actor signed to play the Genie".
Williams and Disney had a bitter falling-out, resulting in Dan Castellaneta voicing the Genie in The Return of Jafar
and the Aladdin animated television series. Castellaneta was also hired for the feature Aladdin and the King of
Thieves and had completed recording all his lines. When Jeffrey Katzenberg was fired from Disney and replaced by
former 20th Century Fox production head Joe Roth (whose last act for Fox was greenlighting Williams' film Mrs.
Doubtfire), Roth arranged for a public apology to Williams by Disney. Williams agreed to perform in Hollywood
Pictures' Jack, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and even agreed to voice the Genie again for the King of Thieves
sequel (for considerably more than scale), replacing all of Castellaneta's dialogue.
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When Williams re-teamed with Doubtfire director Chris Columbus for Touchstone Pictures' Bicentennial Man in
1999, Disney asked that the budget be cut by approximately $20 million, and when the film was released on
Christmas Day, it flopped at the box office. Williams blamed Disney's marketing and the loss of content the film had
suffered due to the budget cuts. As a result, Williams was again on bad terms with Disney, and Castellaneta was
once again recruited to replace him as Genie in the Kingdom Hearts video game series and the House of Mouse TV
series. The DVD release for Aladdin has no involvement whatsoever from Williams in the bonus materials, although
some of his original recording sessions can be seen.
Williams made peace with The Walt Disney Company and in 2009 agreed to be inducted into the Disney Hall of
Fame, designated as a Disney Legend.
Stand-up career
Williams has done a number of stand-up comedy tours since the early
1970s. Some of his most notable tours include An Evening With Robin
Williams (1982), Robin Williams: At The Met (1986) and Robin
Williams LIVE on Broadway (2002). The latter broke many long-held
records for a comedy show. In some cases, tickets were sold out within
thirty minutes of going on sale.
After a six-year break, in August 2008 Williams announced a brand
new 26-city tour titled "Weapons of Self Destruction". He was quoted
as saying that this was his last chance to make cracks at the expense of
the current Bush Administration, but by the time the show was staged
only a few minutes covered that subject. The tour started at the end of
September 2009, finishing in New York on December 3, and was the
subject of an HBO special on December 8, 2009.[7]
Theatre career
In theatre, Williams has headed his own one-man show, Robin
Williams (2007)
Williams: Live on Broadway, that played at The Broadway Theatre in
July 2002.[8] He made his Broadway acting debut in Rajiv Joseph's
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, which opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on March 31,
2011.[9][10][11] He previously appeared opposite Steve Martin at Lincoln Center in an Off-Broadway production of
Waiting for Godot.[12]
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Personal life
Marriages and children
Robin Williams' first marriage was to Valerie Velardi on June 4, 1978.
They have one child, Zachary Pym (Zak) (born April 11, 1983).
During Williams' first marriage, he was involved in an extramarital
relationship with Michelle Tish Carter, a cocktail waitress whom he
met in 1984. She sued him in 1986, claiming that he did not tell her he
was infected with the herpes simplex virus before he embarked on a
sexual relationship with her in the mid-1980s, during which, she said,
he transmitted the virus to her. The case was settled out of court.
Williams and Velardi divorced in 1988.[13]
Williams' residence in Sea Cliff, San Francisco
On April 30, 1989, he married Marsha Garces, his son's nanny, who
was already several months pregnant with his child. They have two children, Zelda Rae (born July 31, 1989) and
Cody Alan (born November 25, 1991). However, in March 2008, Garces filed for divorce from Williams, citing
irreconcilable differences.
Williams married his third wife, graphic designer Susan Schneider, on October 23, 2011, in St. Helena, California.
Their residence was Williams' house in Sea Cliff, a neighborhood in San Francisco, California.
Family and friends
While studying at Juilliard, Williams befriended Christopher Reeve. They had several classes together in which they
were the only students, and they remained good friends for the rest of Reeve's life. Williams visited Reeve after the
horse riding accident that rendered him a quadriplegic, and cheered him up by pretending to be an eccentric Russian
doctor (similar to his role in Nine Months). Williams claimed that he was there to perform a colonoscopy. Reeve
stated that he laughed for the first time since the accident and knew that life was going to be okay.
On August 14, 2007, Williams' elder brother, Robert Todd Williams,
died of complications from heart surgery performed a month earlier.
Addiction and health problems
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Williams had an addiction to
cocaine. Williams was a close friend of and frequent partier alongside
John Belushi. He said the death of his friend and the birth of his son
prompted him to quit drugs: "Was it a wake-up call? Oh yeah, on a
huge level. The grand jury helped too."
On August 9, 2006, Williams checked himself in to a substance-abuse
rehabilitation center (located in Newberg, Oregon), later admitting that
he was an alcoholic. His publicist delivered the announcement:
After 20 years of sobriety, Robin Williams found himself
drinking again and has decided to take proactive measures
to deal with this for his own well-being and the well-being
of his family.
Wiliams aboard the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) in
2005
Williams was hospitalized in March 2009 due to heart problems. He postponed his one-man tour in order to undergo
surgery to replace his aortic valve.[14] The surgery was successfully completed on March 13, 2009, at the Cleveland
Clinic. During an appearance on The Graham Norton Show, Williams discussed the fact that Propofol had been used
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on him during his operation, the same drug which had been involved in the death of Michael Jackson. Williams
commented that Jackson had been taking the drug to sleep, which he compared to "doing chemotherapy because
you're tired of shaving your head". This comment caused much hilarity among the audience and other guests, but
Williams emphasised the fact that Propofol is a "devastatingly powerful drug" that should be only administered in
hospital, whereas Jackson had been using it at home.
Other interests
Williams was a member of the Episcopal Church. He described his denomination in a comedy routine as "Catholic
Lite—same rituals, half the guilt."
Williams was an avid enthusiast of video games, even naming two of his children
after game characters. He named his daughter after Princess Zelda from The
Legend of Zelda action-adventure game series. They both have even been
featured in an ad for the Nintendo 3DS remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina
of Time. On this note, his son may have been named after Cody from the beat
'em up game Final Fight. He also enjoys pen-and-paper role-playing games and
online video games, recently playing Warcraft 3, Day of Defeat, Half-Life, and
the first-person shooter Battlefield 2 as a sniper. He was also previously a fan of
the Wizardry series of role-playing video games.
On January 6, 2006, he performed live at Consumer Electronics Show during
Google's keynote. In the 2006 E3, on the invitation of Will Wright, he
Williams speaking at the 2008 BBC
demonstrated the creature editor of Spore while simultaneously commenting on
World Debate.
the creature's look: "This will actually make a platypus look good." He also
complimented the game's versatility, comparing it to Populous and Black &
White. Later that year, he was one of several celebrities to participate in the Worldwide Dungeons & Dragons Game
Day.
A fan of professional road cycling, he was a regular on the US Postal and Discovery Channel Pro Cycling team bus
and hotels during the years Lance Armstrong dominated the Tour de France. He owned over 50 bicycles.
He enjoyed rugby union and was a big fan of former All Black, Jonah Lomu.
Williams was a supporter of eco-friendly vehicles. He drove a Toyota Prius, and was on the waiting list for an
Aptera 2 Series electric vehicle before the company folded in December 2011.
In 2010, Williams announced that he would love to play The Riddler in the next installment to the Batman films by
director Christopher Nolan, though Nolan has stated that The Riddler would not be featured in the film.
Charity work
Williams and his former wife, Marsha, founded the Windfall
Foundation, a philanthropic organization to raise money for many
different charities. Williams devotes much of his energy to charity
work, including the Comic Relief fundraising efforts (the program is
hosted by himself, Billy Crystal, and Whoopi Goldberg). In December
1999, he sang in French on the BBC-inspired music video of
international celebrities doing a cover of the Rolling Stones' "It's Only
Rock & Roll" for the charity Children's Promise.
Williams performing at Camp Victory for the
USO on December 13, 2010
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In response to the 2010 Canterbury Earthquake, Williams donated all proceeds of his "Weapons of Self Destruction"
Christchurch performance to helping rebuild the New Zealand city. Half the proceeds were donated to the Red Cross
and half to the mayoral building fund with the words "I hope this donation will go some way to helping the extensive
rebuilding effort in the city." Williams has performed with the USO for U.S. troops stationed in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Williams also actively supported St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for several years.
Death
Williams was found unconscious in his home in unincorporated Tiburon, California, at around 12 noon on August
11, 2014. The Marin County Coroner Division suspects the death to be suicide by asphyxia, pending investigation.
According to his publicist, Williams was "battling severe depression" in the time before his death, though his
publicist would not confirm the reports that the death was suicide.
Williams' wife said, "I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and
beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken."
Filmography
Main article: Robin Williams filmography
Discography
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Reality...What a Concept (1979)
Throbbing Python of Love (1983)
A Night at the Met (1986)
Pecos Bill (1988)
Live 2002 (2002)
Weapons of Self Destruction (2010)
Williams appeared in the music video of Bobby McFerrin's hit 1988 song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He teamed with
McFerrin again to record a cover of The Beatles' "Come Together" for the 1998 George Martin album In My Life.
He made a cameo in Cobra Starship's video "You Make Me Feel..." along with his daughter, Zelda Williams.
References
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Stated in interview on Inside the Actors Studio
According to the Nevada Marriage Index, 1956-2005; at http:/ / www. ancestry. com/
The official Michigan social register, 1967, Virginia F. Searcy
Sources conflict. The print biographies The Life and Humor of Robin Williams: A Biography and Robin Williams: A Biography give his birth
year as 1952. The Robin Williams Scrapbook also gives a birth year as 1952, as does Encyclopædia Britannica. Williams refers to himself as
being "55" in an interview published July 4, 2007. He also verifies his date of birth as July 21, 1951 in a fansite interview: Stuurman, Linda.
RWF talks with Robin Williams: Proost! (http:/ / www. robin-williams. net/ interviews/ RWF/ rwfinterview. php), May 25, 2008.
The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi (http:/ / books. google. ca/ books?id=wMoGAQAAIAAJ& q="Laura+ Elvira+
Victoria+ Rauch"& dq="Laura+ Elvira+ Victoria+ Rauch"& hl=en), 1908, Pg. 977; "He [Anselm J. McLaurin] was married at Trenton, Miss.,
February 22, 1870, to Laura Elvira Victoria Rauch, daughter of John Rauch and wife, Epsilon Rauch, of Trenton, Miss. Mrs. McLaurin's
paternal ancestors immigrated to America from Germany; maternal from England and Germany."
October 1982, Playboy Magazine.
robinwilliams.com
The Broadway League. "Robin Williams: Live on Broadway" (http:/ / www. ibdb. com/ production. php?id=13427). IBDB: The Official
Source for Broadway Information.
[9] "Bengal Tiger to Roar at the Richard Rodgers Theatre March 11 Starring Robin Williams" (http:/ / www. broadway. com/ shows/
bengal-tiger-baghdad-zoo/ buzz/ 154265/ bengal-tiger-to-roar-at-the-richard-rodgers-theatre-march-11-starring-robin-williams/ ).
Broadway.com, November 12, 2010.
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[10] "Culture Monster". "Robin Williams to star in 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo' on Broadway" (http:/ / latimesblogs. latimes. com/
culturemonster/ 2010/ 10/ robin-williams-to-star-in-bengal-tiger-at-the-baghdad-zoo-on-broadway. html). Los Angeles Times. October 21,
2010.
[11] "Tickets for Broadway's Bengal Tiger, Starring Robin Williams, Now on Sale" (http:/ / www. playbill. com/ news/ article/
145030-Tickets-for-Broadways-Bengal-Tiger-Starring-Robin-Williams-Now-on-Sale) playbill.com, November 17, 2010.
[12] Frank Rich. "Review/Theatre; 'Godot': The Timeless Relationship of 2 Interdependent Souls" (http:/ / theater. nytimes. com/ mem/ theater/
treview. html?res=940DE4DE1231F934A35752C1A96E948260). The New York Times, November 7, 1988. Accessed May 4, 2011.
[13] Hochman, David (September 9, 2 013). "Still Crazy: Years after Mork and Buffy, Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar hope to rope us
in with a new sitcom". TV Guide. pp.16 - 19.
[14] Jones, Kenneth. "Robin Williams' Spring Broadway Bow Postponed Due to Heart Surgery" (http:/ / www. playbill. com/ news/ article/
126985. html), playbill.com, March 5, 2009
General
• "Road Trip with Robin" (http://franklovece.com/newsday2.html#robin)Wikipedia:Link rot
• "Robin Williams mimic ends 'fraud'" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4553999.stm) (BBC News
Online)
• "Robin Williams' impersonator stopped" (http://www.askmen.com/gossip/robin-williams/
robin-williams-impersonator-stopped.html) (AskMen.com)
• "Robin Williams Enters Rehab" (http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah1169.shtml)Wikipedia:Link rot,
August 9, 2006 (Access Hollywood)
• Lovece, Frank, Newsday (April 27, 2006)
Bibliography
• Jay David (1999). The Life and Humor of Robin Williams: A Biography. New York: Quill.
ISBN 978-0-688-15245-1.
• Andy Dougan (1999). Robin Williams: A Biography. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 978-1-56025-213-9.
• Stephen J. Spignesi (1997). The Robin Williams Scrapbook. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Pub. ISBN 978-0-8065-1891-6.
External links
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Official website (http://www.robinwilliams.com)
Robin Williams (http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=88190) at the Internet Broadway Database
Robin Williams (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm245/) at the Internet Movie Database
Robin Williams (http://tcmdb.com/participant/participant.jsp?participantId=206858) at the TCM Movie
Database
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