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Robin Williams' Best Roles

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Aug 12, 2014 12:30 AM
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The Butler

Williams portrayed President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Lee Daniels' 2013 film.


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Dead Poets Society

In the 1989 drama, Williams plays English teacher John Keating, who inspires his students to love poetry.


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Flubber

An absent-minded professor discovers flubber, a rubber-like, super-bouncy substance.


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Aladdin

Williams voices the character of the Genie in the 1992 Disney flick.


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Good Will Hunting

Williams played mentor to Matt Damon's character Will Hunting.


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Jumanji

When two kids find and play a magical board game, they release a man (Williams) trapped for decades in it and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.


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One Hour Photo

An employee of a one-hour photo lab becomes obsessed with a young suburban family.


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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Williams portrayed Teddy Roosevelt in the family flick.


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The Crazy Ones

Williams played an eccentric advertising exec who worked with his daughter (Sarah Michelle Gellar).


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Patch Adams

Williams plays a med student who treats patient with humor.


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Mrs. Doubtfire

After a bitter divorce, Williams disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children.


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The World According to Garp

Williams plays a writer and the illegitimate child of a feminist author.


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Jack

The comedian plays a young boy trapped in a 40-year-old man's body.


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The Birdcage

The Birdcage centers on a South Beach drag club.


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What Dreams May Come

The 1998 fantasy starred Williams as a man searching for his wife in the afterlife.


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Popeye

Williams starred as the titular character in the 1980 comedy.


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Hook

Williams takes on the role of Peter in the re-imagined Peter Pan flick.


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The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

Williams' last film role had him playing a curmudgeonly man who is mistakenly told that he has 90 minutes to live by his doctor.


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Good Morning, Vietnam

An unorthodox radio DJ shakes things up when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services Radio station in Vietnam.


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Bicentennial Man

Williams really showed his range by playing an android who endeavors to become human as he gradually acquires emotions.


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Moscow on the Hudson

A Russian musician adjusts to living in NYC.


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Hamlet

Williams played Osric in the 1996 remake.


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Jakob the Liar

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shopkeeper named Jakob (Williams) is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out near curfew.


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The Fisher King

Jeff Bridges stars as a shock jock DJ who takes a homeless man (Williams) under his wing.


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