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07-21-2017, 07:38 PM
https://lebeauleblog.com/2017/07/21/july-21-happy-birthday-jon-lovitz-and-robin-williams/

Robin Williams (1951-2014) studied at Juilliard before starting to work as a stand-up comic in San Francisco, where he was credited with leading a “comedy renaissance,” and then in Los Angeles. A guest appearance on Happy Days led to his starring role on ABC’s Mork & Mindy. Williams began to emerge as a major film actor in the eighties, starring in Popeye, The World According to Garp, and Moscow on the Hudson. He received the first of his four Oscar nominations for starring as Vietnam war military deejay Adrian Cronauer.
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Williams added two more Best Actor nominations, for Dead Poets Society and The Fisher King, before winning Best Supporting Actor for Good Will Hunting. He also won Golden Globes for his voice acting in Aladdin and for Mrs. Doubtfire, and four Grammys in the Best Comedy Album category. Late in his life Williams suffered from what was eventually determined to be Lewy body dementia, possibly a factor in his 2014 suicide (https://lebeauleblog.com/2014/08/12/personal-musings-depression-and-the-death-of-robin-williams/).