Robin WilliamsFilmography

World's Greatest Dad

Actors: Robin Williams, Daryl Sabara, Alexie Gilmore, Tom Kenny, Geoffrey Pierson

Synopsis: A high school poetry teacher and single father discovers that the thing he covets most in life may not be what makes him truly happy in this pitch-black comedy directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, and starring Robin Williams. Lance Clayton (Williams) is a mild-mannered high school teacher from Seattle Read More

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Actors: Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson

Synopsis: Ben Stiller returns as Larry Daley, the unfortunate night watchman who continues to encounter living and breathing museum exhibits in Night at the Museum 2: Escape From the Smithsonian, 20th Century Fox's tent-pole sequel from director Shawn Levy. Scott Frank, Robert Ben Garant, and Thomas Lennon Read More

SpongeBob SquarePants: Truth or Square

Synopsis: When SpongeBob loses the super-secret Krabby Patty recipe, he recruits a most unlikely helper in order to retrieve it in time for the Krusty Krab's Eleventy Seventh anniversary. With the recipe nowhere to be found and the big day fast approaching, SpongeBob realizes that his only hope for ensuring Read More

Dreams With Sharp Teeth

Actors: Harlan Ellison, Erik Nelson, Robin Williams, Neil Gaiman

Synopsis: Anyone coming to Dreams With Sharp Teeth expecting a formal, traditionally organized biographical sketch of author Harlan Ellison will be disappointed. But what they will find instead is Ellison more or less unchained and ranging (and raging) across his past and into the future (circa 2007) Read More

Comic Relief: The Greatest... and the Latest

Actors: Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Lewis Black, Wayne Brady

Synopsis: Comic Relief: The Greatest... and the Latest features a number of performances by some of the most talented comics of their day performing for a charity that collects money for the homeless. Among the performers who appear on this release are Sarah Silverman, Lewis Black, Jon Stewart, and David Read More

History of the Joke with Lewis Black

Actors: Lewis Black, George Carlin, Kathy Griffin, Robin Williams, Penn Jillette, Teller

Synopsis: This program follows famously angry comedian Lewis Black as he searches for the elusive origin to the most basic component of his career: the joke. Through interviews with comedians like George Carlin, Kathy Griffin, and Robert Klein, Black finds out where humor originates in the brains of his Read More

Rona Barrett's Hollywood: Nothing But the Truth

Actors: Rona Barrett

Synopsis: Frequent Good Morning America, The Today Show, and Entertainment Tonight contributor Rona Barrett serves as the subject of this documentary profile of the celebrity journalist whose innovative "coffee cliché" style has served as the blueprint for what's now considered mainstream celebrity Read More

August Rush

Actors: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Terrence Howard, Robin Williams

Synopsis: Estranged from his parents by circumstance and nudged toward a foster family, a young boy seeks out his long-lost folks and discovers prodigious musical talent in this family-oriented drama from Disco Pigs director Kirsten Sheridan. In the aftermath of a passionate night together above New York's Read More

License to Wed

Actors: Robin Williams, Mandy Moore, John Krasinski, Eric Christian Olsen, Christine Taylor

Synopsis: An engaged young couple finds their lifetime of happiness unexpectedly compromised by a pushy minister who insists they successfully complete his comprehensive marriage-prep course before exchanging wedding vows in a matrimonial comedy starring John Krasinski, Mandy Moore, and Robin Williams. Read More

Fog City Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco

Actors: Chris Columbus, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, George Lucas, Saul Zaentz

Synopsis: While Los Angeles has been the capital of major studio filmmaking in America since the early ears of the 20th Century, in the northern part of California, San Francisco has become home to a different breed of filmmaker -- artists who treasure their independence and carefully guard their creative Read More

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Authority

Synopsis: Robin Williams guest stars as engineer Merritt Rook, who poses as a police officer on the phone to trick people into committing criminal acts. Rook's clever self-defense at trial sets him free, leading to publicity and followers stemming from his antiauthority message. Scott Adsit also guest Read More

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

Actors: Don Rickles, Clint Eastwood, Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman, Christopher Guest

Synopsis: As one of the few heavyweight comedians of Vegas's "Golden Age" to topline standup routines in 21st century Glitter Gulch - a time and place that saw him still reeling in massive audiences well into his 70s and 80s - Don Rickles qualifies as a show business legend. Rickles, of course, pioneered Read More

Night at the Museum

Actors: Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Jake Cherry, Ricky Gervais, Robin Williams

Synopsis: The new night watchman at New York's Museum of Natural History finds that the job comes with more responsibility than he ever dreamed in this wild fantasy comedy directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Mickey Rooney, and Dick Van Dyke. Larry Daley (Stiller) is a Read More

Happy Feet

Actors: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, Anthony LaPaglia, Magda Szubanski, Steve Irwin

Synopsis: In the world of the emperor penguin, a simple song can mean the difference between a lifetime of happiness and an eternity of loneliness. When a penguin named Mumble is born without the ability to sing the romantic song that will attract his soul mate, he'll have to resort to some fancy footwork Read More

Man of the Year

Actors: Robin Williams, Laura Linney, Christopher Walken, Lewis Black, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: Good Morning, Vietnam duo Barry Levinson and Robin Williams re-team to tell the tale of a quick-witted radio talk-show host whose fanciful bid for the presidency becomes a surprising reality in the one political comedy that truly speaks for the people. When talk show host Tom Dobbs (Robin Read More

Everyone's Hero

Actors: Rob Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Jake T. Austin, William H. Macy, Mandy Patinkin

Synopsis: A young baseball fan sets out on a cross-country quest to recover Babe Ruth's stolen bat and restore his father's good name in a computer animated family adventure that shows you're never too young to be a hero. Yankee Irving (voice of Jake T. Austin) may not be the best base-runner in his Read More

The Night Listener

Actors: Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Bobby Cannavale, Joe Morton, Sandra Oh, Rory Culkin

Synopsis: A man whose life has been touched by tragic illness is drawn into the life of another victim whose story has an unsettling twist in this drama. Gabriel Noone (Robin Williams) is a radio talk show host who has developed a loyal following for his deeply personal on-air monologues, many of which deal Read More

RV

Actors: Robin Williams, Jeff Daniels, Cheryl Hines, Kristin Chenoweth, Joanna 'Jojo' Levesque, Josh Hutcherson

Synopsis: A white-collar workaholic deceptively persuades his family to forgo their much-anticipated Hawaiian vacation for a cross-country road trip in a fully loaded RV, during which they discover the true meaning of family bonding, in Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld's family-friendly road comedy Read More

Comic Relief 2006

Actors: Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams

Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?

Actors: Harry Nilsson, Jimmy Webb, Micky Dolenz, Rick Jarrard, Doug Hoefer

The Big White

Actors: Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi, Woody Harrelson

Synopsis: A travel agent in deep debt attempts to swindle a by-the-books insurance agent by claiming the corpse of a gangland hit as his long-missing brother in director Mark Mylod's dark crime comedy. Paul Barnell (Robin Williams) is in trouble. Saddled with a cantankerous wife (Holly Hunter) and unable to Read More

The Aristocrats

Synopsis: "A family walks into a talent agent's office..." So begins "The Aristocrats," a joke kept mostly secret by stand-up comedians for decades. An intentionally "bad" joke, the laughs in The Aristocrats aren't in the punch-line (one of the only elements that's the same every time), but in the set-up Read More

House of D

Actors: Anton Yelchin, Téa Leoni, David Duchovny, Robin Williams, Erykah Badu

Synopsis: Actor David Duchovny made his debut as a director and screenwriter with this coming-of-age drama, in which a grown man looks back at his adolescence. It's 1973, and Tommy (Anton Yelchin) is a 13-year-old boy living in New York's Greenwich Village with his mother (Téa Leoni), who is still coming to Read More

Robots

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Robin Williams, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks

Synopsis: For this follow-up to their mega-hit Ice Age, directors Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge team with the screenwriting duo behind Parenthood and City Slickers, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. Robots stars Ewan McGregor as the voice of Rodney Copperbottom, an idealistic robot who wants to convince his Read More

Noel

Actors: Penélope Cruz, Susan Sarandon, Paul Walker, Alan Arkin, Marcus Thomas

Synopsis: A group of disparate characters look for understanding and compassion in the midst of a lonely holiday season in this comedy drama. Rose (Susan Sarandon) is a middle-aged divorcée whose mother is in the hospital with an advanced case of Alzheimer's disease; while Rose wants one more chance to tell Read More

The Final Cut

Actors: Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino, James Caviezel, Mimi Kuzyk, Thom Bishops

Synopsis: First-time filmmaker Omar Naim writes and directs the sci-fi drama The Final Cut. Set in the near future, the story concerns a microchip that is capable of recording a person's entire life. Robin Williams plays Alan Hakman, an editor who cuts together the footage to make pleasant movies for Read More

Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet #*%$#@!! Uncensored

Synopsis: It isn't usually until after a popular comic dies that he is declared a "genius" by his fellow comics and elevated to the status of legend -- fortunately for Richard Pryor, his peers have decided to pay homage while he's still around to appreciate it. In his heyday, Pryor was a comedian who wasn't Read More

Juilliard

Synopsis: Established in 1905 for the encouragement and nurturing of young talent, the New York-based conservatory Juilliard has boasted such stellar alumni as Kevin Kline, Wynton Marsalis, Robin Williams, Christopher Reeve, Christine Baranski, Laura Linney, and Kelsey Grammer -- not to mention such Read More

An Uncommon Kindness: The Father Damien Story

Synopsis: Acclaimed actor Robin Williams narrates this heartfelt look at a Belgian priest whose selfless determination to ease the suffering of others came at the height of Hawaii's horrific leprosy epidemic. The year was 1872 and leprosy was sweeping through the Hawaiian islands. In a desperate bid to Read More

The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch

Actors: Eric Idle, Neil Innes, Rikki Fataar, John Halsey

Synopsis: Monty Python-alum Eric Idle directs and stars in this sequel to his 1978 mockumentary, The Rutles. It's decades later and the Rutles are embarking on their final reunion tour. Along for the ride is S.J. Krammerhead (Idle) who, just like in the first film, interviews several notable celebrities who Read More

One Hour Photo

Actors: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, Dylan Smith

Synopsis: Funnyman Robin Williams steps out of character in this tense, low-key thriller that marked the feature-film directorial debut of music video veteran Mark Romanek. Semour "Sy" Parrish (Williams) runs the photo processing department at a large discount store; Sy is dedicated to his job, and takes Read More

Insomnia

Actors: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Maura Tierney, Martin Donovan

Synopsis: Director Christopher Nolan follows up his breakthrough sophomore film Memento with this remake of a stylish Norwegian thriller. Al Pacino stars as Detective Will Dormer, a Los Angeles Police Department legend who temporarily escapes an internal affairs investigation that may ruin his career by Read More

Death to Smoochy

Synopsis: Danny DeVito steps behind the camera for this darkly funny satire that combines elements of Barney and Friends with the real-life Pee-Wee Herman scandal while recalling the director's previously twisted black comedies Throw Momma From the Train (1987) and The War of the Roses (1989). Robin Read More

Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War

Synopsis: Filmmakers Phillip B. Kunhardt III, Nancy Steiner, and Peter W. Kunhardt explore the eternal struggle for liberty in America while simultaneously illuminating the hypocritical underlying factors that undermined the colonist's bold "experiment in freedom," in a revealing documentary featuring the Read More

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

Actors: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson, William Hurt

Synopsis: Based on the 1969 short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, by Brian Aldiss, this science fiction fantasy bears similarities to Pinocchio (1940) and originated as a long-gestating project of director Stanley Kubrick that passed to his friend Steven Spielberg after Kubrick's death. Haley Joel Osment Read More

America: A Tribute to Heroes

Actors: U2

Synopsis: Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Sheryl Crow, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Tom Petty, Al Pacino, and many more entertainment industry luminaries teamed up on September 21, 2001, for this live telethon raising funds for the families of the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks. The focus Read More

The Directors: Barry Levinson

Synopsis: One of Hollywood's most acclaimed directors, Barry Levinson has brought such hits as Diner, Good Morning Vietnam, and Liberty Heights to screens everywhere. This video profile highlights his career, featuring interviews with Annette Bening, Dustin Hoffman, and Kevin Pollak. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Read More

Chuck Jones: Extremes and Inbetweens - A Life in Animation

Actors: Chuck Jones, Leonard Maltin, Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: Chuck Jones: Extremes and Inbetweens - A Life in Animation was originally telecast as a PBS "Great Performances" episode on November 22, 2000. Warner Bros. animator Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones created many cartoon characters, including Pepe Le Pew, Wile E. Coyote, and the Road Runner. A key Read More

Bicentennial Man

Actors: Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Wendy Crewson, Embeth Davidtz, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: If a robot spends enough time around humans, can he learn to become one of them? The Martin family purchases a domestic android as a servant and names him Andrew (Robin Williams). Andrew comes to know the man of the house as Sir (Sam Neill), his wife as Ma'am Wendy Crewson, and their daughter as Read More

Jakob the Liar

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Michael Jeter, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Liev Schreiber, Mark Margolis

Synopsis: This remake of the 1975 German film Jakob der Lügner stars Robin Williams in a dramatic role as a man who uses his active imagination to bring a ray of hope where hope was all but unknown. Jakob Heym (Robin Williams) is the owner of a small café during the Nazi occupation of Poland; he has little Read More

Get Bruce!

Actors: Bruce Vilanch, Bette Midler, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: This is a documentary portrait of a Hollywood comedy writer cited by many of entertainment's biggest stars as their comedic "secret weapon." Bruce Vilanch is a rotund, hirsute New Jersey native who left a job at a Chicago newspaper in the 1970s to become a gag writer for singer and actress Bette Midler Read More

Patch Adams

Actors: Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton

Synopsis: The fact-based story of an unconventional physician who attempted to heal patients with laughter, based on his own book and mixing equal doses of scatological humor and pathos. Robin Williams stars as Hunter Adams, a troubled young man who commits himself to a mental institution in the late 1960s. Read More

What Dreams May Come

Actors: Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Annabella Sciorra, Max von Sydow, Jessica Brooks Grant

Synopsis: Based on a metaphysical 1978 novel by science fiction and horror author Richard Matheson, this romantic fantasy-drama won an Oscar for its expensive and impressive visual vistas depicting an imaginative afterlife. Robin Williams stars as Chris Nielsen, a doctor who has suffered with his artist Read More

In My Life

Actors: George Martin, Jim Carrey, Phil Collins, Celine Dion, Goldie Hawn

Synopsis: Before retiring, recording producer George Martin, famed for his for association with The Beatles, returned to The Beatles songbook, shaping performances by several artists not usually associated with The Beatles, and some not even recognized for their musical abilities. This documentary captures Read More

Deconstructing Harry

Actors: Woody Allen, Kirstie Alley, Bob Balaban, Richard Benjamin, Billy Crystal

Synopsis: Woody Allen wrote, directed, and stars in this very dark comedy about a novelist, Harry Block, who says with admirable honesty, "I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art." So far, Harry has made his way through six psychiatrists and three marriages (one, conveniently enough Read More

Fathers' Day

Actors: Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nastassja Kinski, Charlie Hofheimer

Synopsis: Two of the screen's most popular comic actors meet in this movie about two men brought together by unexpected circumstances. On the surface, Jack Lawrence (Billy Crystal) and Dale Putley (Robin Williams) wouldn't appear to have much in common. Jack is an efficient, serious-minded lawyer with a Read More

Flubber

Actors: Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Raymond J. Barry, Clancy Brown

Synopsis: Although "flub" is defined as "to make a mess of," the word "flubber" is a contraction from "flying rubber." In this remake of the 1961 comedy-fantasy The Absent Minded Professor, Robin Williams takes on the role created by Fred MacMurray and later executed by Harry Anderson on television, while Read More

Good Will Hunting

Actors: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgård

Synopsis: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck co-scripted and star in this drama, set in Boston and Cambridge, about rebellious 20-year-old MIT janitor Will Hunting (Damon), gifted with a photographic memory, who hangs out with his South Boston bar buddies, his best friend Chuckie (Affleck), and his affluent British Read More

Hamlet

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Brian Blessed, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet, Richard Briers

Synopsis: At least the 22nd time William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy has been brought to the screen, Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of Hamlet was the first to preserve Shakespeare's entire text, uncut and unabridged. Moving the action into the 19th century, Branagh cast himself in the title role Read More

Jack

Actors: Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Jennifer Lopez, Brian Kerwin, Fran Drescher

Synopsis: In this film by director Francis Ford Coppola, Robin Williams stars as Jack, a boy who is growing normally, but at many times the normal rate. In a bizarre flashback, we see that he was born when his mother was only ten weeks pregnant. Kept out of school for years, the neighborhood children Read More

The Birdcage

Actors: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest, Hank Azaria, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart

Synopsis: Director Mike Nichols teams up with his former partner/screenwriter Elaine May for the first time in many years and for the first time together in films to create this sophisticated, remake of the phenomenally popular French musical farce La Cage aux Folles that stars Robin Williams, Nathan Lane Read More

Comic Relief VII

Synopsis: Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, and Billy Crystal donate their time and talent to host Comic Relief in this 1996 production documenting the seventh edition of this live charity event aimed at benefiting America's homeless people. Directed by Walter C. Miller (who helmed many of TV's All in the Family Read More

Aladdin and the King of Thieves

Actors: John Rhys-Davies, Linda Larkin, Scott Weinger, Robin Williams

Synopsis: In Disney's second straight-to-video sequel to Aladdin, Aladdin (voice of Scott Weinger) and Princess Jasmine (voice of Linda Larkin) have finally decided to marry, but when the big day finally arrives, the ceremony is thrown into chaos by the unexpected arrival of the Forty Thieves, who are Read More

The Secret Agent

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gérard Depardieu, Robin Williams, George Spelvin, Jim Broadbent

Synopsis: In this adaptation of the novel by Joseph Conrad, Mr. Verloc (Bob Hoskins) runs a shabby corner shop in London that serves as a front for his more profitable sideline, selling pornography. However, selling sex photos is not Verloc's main order of business; he is a member of an anarchist Read More

Jumanji

Actors: David Alan Grier, Adam Hann-Byrd, Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce, Bebe Neuwirth, Jonathan Hyde

Synopsis: Jumanji is a visually elaborate fantasy about an enchanted board game that opens a magical portal to a jungle universe. Two young children, Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce), discover the game in an abandoned home and suddenly are greeted by Alan (Robin Williams), an adult who has Read More

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner

Synopsis: Patrick Swayze plays Vida Boheme, a classy and long-reigning drag queen. With his understudy Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes), Vida wins a New York drag stage contest and an all-expenses-paid trip to Hollywood. But when Miss Chi Chi Rodriguez (John Leguizamo) cries at having lost the contest Read More

Nine Months

Actors: Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore, Tom Arnold, Joan Cusack, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: A single man faces the terrifying prospect of seeing his carefree life dashed by a visit from the stork in this comedy. Samuel Falkner (Hugh Grant) is a child psychiatrist who has no kids of his own and doesn't want any, which leaves him a bit shaken when his girlfriend of five years, Rebecca Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Montana

Synopsis: As season three of The Larry Sanders Show begins, it appears as if Larry (Garry Shandling) has followed through on his promise to quit the show and move to Montana. Just as Larry has taken up life in a cabin by the river and begins settling into life as a miserable recluse, Artie (Rip Torn) Read More

In Search of Dr. Seuss

Actors: Matt Frewer, Kathy Najimy

Synopsis: This is a children's video about the life and work of the author commonly known around the world as Dr. Seuss. The video also contains original musical productions based on Dr. Seuss' books, including Oh, The Places You'll Go, Green Eggs and Ham, and The Cat in the Hat. On this video, you will see Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Bop Gun

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Robin Williams guest stars on the first of Homicide's four second-season episodes. Williams is cast as tourist Robert Ellison, who can't cope with the fact that his wife was killed in a holdup right in front of him and their children. Angrily demanding justice, Ellison may well get it when the Read More

Inside the Actors Studio: Robin Williams

Actors: Robin Williams, James Lipton

Synopsis: This popular episode of Inside the Actor's studio features Robin Williams in a candid interview with host James Lipton. Peppered with his signature humor, impressions, and improvisational skills, Williams recounts the ups, downs, and some of the most memorable moments of his long and varied Read More

Comic Relief III: Special Edition

Synopsis: This special edition of the Comic Relief III live benefit for America's homeless has been specially edited for general viewing. Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, and Billy Crystal host this 1989 event, which features routines from such renowned comedy stars as Bob Newhart, Bob Saget, Steven Wright, Bobcat Goldthwait Read More

Shakespeare - The Animated Tales [Animated Series]

Actors: Robin Williams

Mrs. Doubtfire

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein, Polly Holliday

Synopsis: Robin Williams learns that keeping in touch with his children can be a drag in this hit comedy. Daniel Hillard (Williams) is an eccentric actor who specializes in dubbing voices for cartoon characters. Daniel is a kind man and a loving father, but he's a poor disciplinarian and a shaky role model. Read More

Being Human

Actors: Robin Williams, John Turturro, Anna Galiena, Vincent D'Onofrio, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: Five fables, each set in a different historical era, make up this quirky comedy from director Bill Forsyth. Each tale features Robin Williams as a basically decent but troubled average man named Hector. Beginning with the Bronze Age, where Hector struggles for survival against barbarians, the film Read More

Toys

Actors: Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack, Robin Wright Penn, LL Cool J

Synopsis: Barry Levinson directed this cautionary fantasy fable--a triumph of production design--concerning the clash between benevolent, funny toys and malevolent, violent war toys and video games. Donald O'Connor is the kindly, gentle Kenneth Zevo, founder of Zevo Toys. The workers love him and the love Read More

Aladdin

Actors: Brad Kane, Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Lea Salonga, John Freeman, Frank Welker, Gilbert Gottfried

Synopsis: Robin Williams's dizzying and hilarious voicing of the Genie is the main attraction of Aladdin, the third in the series of modern Disney animated movies that began with 1989's The Little Mermaid and heralded a new age for the genre. After a sultan (Douglas Seale) gives his daughter, Jasmine (Linda Larkin Read More

FernGully: The Last Rainforest

Actors: Tim Curry, Robin Williams, Samantha Mathis, Christian Slater, Jonathan Ward

Synopsis: A man finds himself living among the animals and enchanted spirits of the rainforest, and learns of the true consequences of human destruction in this animated adventure. Crysta (voice of Samantha Mathis) is a young fairy who is being tutored in the powers of magic by the older and wiser Magi Read More

Shakes the Clown

Actors: Bobcat Goldthwait, Julie Brown, Tom Kenny, Blake Clark, Adam Sandler, Robin Williams, Florence Henderson

Synopsis: This black comedy chronicles the fall of one of the world's most unlovable clowns as he plies his trade and tries to survive in Palukaville a town where everyone is more or less a Bozo. Shakes loves women and more than that, he loves his booze. Like many of his painted peers, ol' Shakes likes to Read More

Comic Relief V

Synopsis: Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, and Robin Williams host a fund-raiser comedy special, including stand-ups by Roseanne Arnold, Richard Lewis, Jim Carrey, Sinbad, Rita Rudner, and more. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Return of Spinal Tap

Actors: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, June Chadwick, Bob Geldof

Synopsis: The mock heavy-metal band Spinal Tap (actually comedians Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer) return to duty in this made-for-TV sequel to Rob Reiner's 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, filmed to promote the group's album Break Like the Wind. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Hank's Contract

Synopsis: Television contract negotiations are the stuff of legends in the entertainment industry, and viewers get a healthy dose of the outlandish demands of television stars in this episode of The Larry Sanders Show. It's contract negotiation time for Larry's (Garry Shandling) sidekick, Hank (Jeffrey Tambor Read More

Hook

Actors: Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Phil Collins

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg filters J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan through a distinctly 1990s sensibility in Hook. Peter Pan has become Peter Banning (Robin Williams), a 40-year-old mergers and acquisitions lawyer with a permanent scowl on his face and a cellular phone in his belt. Banning has lost any memory of Read More

The Fisher King

Actors: Adam Bryant, Paul Lombardi, David Hyde Pierce, Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer, Michael Jeter

Synopsis: Terry Gilliam directed this adaptation of Richard LaGravenese's mystical (and mythical) tale of redemption in the hard-time town of New York City. Jeff Bridges is shock radio DJ Jack Lucas, whose low opinion of humanity lends itself well to his radio talk show, where the enmity rubs off on his Read More

Dead Again

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia, Derek Jacobi, Robin Williams

Synopsis: Set in contemporary Los Angeles as well as the Los Angeles of the 1940s, Dead Again explores a romance between two star-crossed lovers -- and the doomed passion they shared in their last lifetime. Los Angeles detective Mike Church (Kenneth Branagh) comes to the aid of mute, amnesia-victim Grace (Emma Thompson Read More

Florence with Robin Williams

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An art appreciation video--the actor takes us on a tour of Florence. Includes the Medici Palace, Michelangelo's David, works by Verrocchio, Donatello, Ghilberti, Brunelleschi, Leonardo da Vinci, and Botticelli. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

A Wish for Wings That Work

Synopsis: Opus n' Bill in: A Wish for Wings That Work, adapted from the comic strip Bloom County, concerns the plans of Bill the Cat to help his friend Opus the Penguin achieve his dream of flying. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Rabbit Ears: Fool and the Flying Ship

Synopsis: The Fool and the Flying Ship contains slightly more animation than was usual in the Rabbit Ears Video productions of the 1990s (the producers favored still pictures in lieu of full movement). This engaging retelling of an ancient Russian folk tale concerns a Munchhausen-like tall-tale spinner who Read More

More Than a Movie

Synopsis: Meet the real Dr. Oliver Sacks who pulled patients out of their shells and who was depicted by Robin Williams in the film Awakenings. Actors from the film are interviewed. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Awakenings

Actors: Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller

Synopsis: Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here named Dr. Malcolm Sayer. Something of a klutz and naif, Dr. Sayer takes a job at a Bronx psychiatric hospital in 1969. Here he's put in charge of several seemingly catatonic Read More

Cadillac Man

Actors: Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Pamela Reed, Fran Drescher, Zack Norman

Synopsis: Robin Williams stars in this oddball comedy about a fast-talking car salesman who is down on his luck and in over his head until an extreme situation forces him to use his sales skills to save lives. Joey O'Brien (Williams) is the stereotypical car salesman: enterprising, aggressive, and desperate Read More

Best of Comic Relief '90

Actors: Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams

Synopsis: Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, and Billy Crystal once again donate their time and talent to host the Best of Comic Relief '90, a charity event to benefit the Comic Relief organization, which aids America's homeless. Among the over 40 comedy stars performing in this program are Louie Anderson, George Carlin Read More

The Earth Day Special

Synopsis: A cast of celebrities gathered to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Earth Day. It is an entertaining special that points out the crisis state of our planet's environment. It provides scientific facts and detailed analysis. The show provides ways in which everyone can participate in saving the Read More

Dead Poets Society

Actors: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen

Synopsis: Robin Williams toned down his usually manic comic approach in this successful period drama. In 1959, the Welton Academy is a staid but well-respected prep school where education is a pragmatic and rather dull affair. Several of the students, however, have their thoughts on the learning process Read More

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Actors: John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Uma Thurman, Oliver Reed, Charles McKeown, Sting, Robin Williams, Valentina Cortese

Synopsis: Director Terry Gilliam adroitly applies his Monty Python sensibilities upon the "career" of famed German prevaricator Baron von Munchausen. Played herein by John Neville, the baron is seen quelling a war that he himself started, flying into the stratosphere on the back of a cannonball, ballooning Read More

The Young Comedians All-Star Reunion

Synopsis: This performance video features a collection of five comedians doing their stuff. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Comic Relief III

Synopsis: This video documents the third annual Comic Relief live benefit for America's homeless. Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, and Billy Crystal return as hosts of Comic Relief in this 1989 event. Directed by Walter C. Miller (who helmed many of TV's All in the Family episodes), this program includes Read More

Pecos Bill

Synopsis: This hilarious short film will delight children and adults alike. Comedian Robin Williams reads the clever Brian Gleeson adaptation of the story and injects considerable zest into the legendary exploits of the greatest cowboy on Earth who rode a cougar, taught cowboys how to drive cattle, lassoed Read More

An All-Star Toast to the Improv

Synopsis: Fans of the syndicated 1980s TV series An Evening at the Improv will get a kick out of this commemorative TV special. Budd Friedman, overseer of the Improv comedy club in Los Angeles, takes a back seat to host Robert Klein this time out. Offering their considerable talents to the occasion are such Read More

Tenth Annual Young Comedians Reunion

Synopsis: A collection of today's funniest comedians is the focus in this performance video. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

An All-Star Salute to the Improv

Comic Relief I: The Original

Synopsis: Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, and Billy Crystal donate their time and talent to host Comic Relief in this 1988 production documenting the live charity event to benefit America's homeless. Directed by Walter C. Miller (who helmed many of TV's All in the Family episodes), this program includes Read More

Saturday Night Live: Robin Williams [3]

Actors: Robin Williams, James Taylor

Synopsis: This 1988 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Robin Williams and features musical guest James Taylor. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Will Rogers: Look Back in Laughter

Good Morning, Vietnam

Actors: Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tung Thanh Tran, Chintara Sukapatana, Bruno Kirby

Synopsis: The film begins in 1965, when disc jockey Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) is assigned to take over the AFR's Saigon radio broadcasts. In contrast to the dull, by-rote announcers that have preceded him, Cronauer is a bundle of dynamite, heralding each broadcast with a loud "Goooooood morning Read More

Comic Relief II

Synopsis: Released by the now-defunct Simitar Entertainment rather than Rhino Video, which handles the other Comic Relief videos, Comic Relief II is featured on two separate 60-minute videos. A 1987 live charity event benefiting America's homeless, part one of Comic Relief II is hosted by Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg Read More

Robin! Tour De Face!

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Actors: Tom Berenger, Ellen Burstyn, J. Kenneth Campbell, Richard Chaves, Josh Cruze

Synopsis: Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam was first telecast April 3, 1988, over the HBO cable service. Based on the book of the same name, the program is devoted to poignant recitations of letters to and from American participants of the Vietnam war. The letters are heard over images culled from Read More

Reunion: 10th Annual Young Comedians

Club Paradise

Actors: Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy

Synopsis: Robin Williams' comic shtick sabotages any attempt at comic development in Harold Ramis' patchy comedy farce Club Paradise. Williams plays Jack Moniker, a Chicago fireman injured in the line of duty, who uses his disability money to open up a run-down Caribbean resort. Jack eagerly awaits the Read More

The Best of Times

Actors: Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Holly Palance, Donald Moffat

Synopsis: Small-town banker Robin Williams has never been able to live down the fact that he dropped an important pass during a crucial high-school football game. Likewise tainted for life is the team's star quarterback Kurt Russell, now a garage owner. Fed up with living his life under a cloud, Williams Read More

Seize the Day

Actors: Robin Williams, Jerry Stiller, Joseph Wiseman, Glenne Headly, William Hickey

Synopsis: The PBS series Great Performances first presented the made-for-TV feature Seize the Day. The time is the success-driven '50s; Robin Williams plays Tommy Wilhelm, a middle-ager who has just lost his salesman's job. Margaret, his wife (Katherine Borowitz), is on the verge of divorce and fully Read More

Jonathan Winters on the Edge

Actors: Jonathan Winters

Saturday Night Live: Robin Williams [2]

Actors: Robin Williams, Paul Simon

Synopsis: This 1986 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Robin Williams and features musical guest Paul Simon. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The Best of Comic Relief

Richard Lewis: I'm in Pain

Actors: Richard Lewis

Saturday Night Live: Robin Williams [1]

Actors: Robin Williams, Adam Ant

Synopsis: This 1984 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Robin Williams and features musical guest Adam Ant. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Moscow on the Hudson

Actors: Robin Williams, Maria Conchita Alonso, Cleavant Derricks, Alejandro Rey, Savely Kramarov

Synopsis: Robin Williams stars as Vladimir Ivanoff, a Russian sax player working in a circus whose home life with his warm and colorful family does not compensate for his feelings of repression and lost opportunity in his native land. When the circus comes to New York, Williams goes on a shopping trip to Read More

The Survivors

Actors: John Goodman, Walter Matthau, Robin Williams, Jerry Reed, James Wainwright, Kristen Vigard

Synopsis: Director Michael Ritchie spoofs survivalists in this rambling black comedy. Donald Quinelle (Robin Williams) is a successful young executive who is called to his boss' office one morning and is fired by a parrot sitting in the CEO's chair -- a method the company uses to axe high-powered execs. Read More

Catch a Rising Star's 10th Anniversary

An Evening with Robin Williams

Synopsis: Each installment of An Evening With presents a performer, band, group, or other public figure in a setting aimed to please fans looking for a representative sampling of what a particular person or group of people does best. In this video, actor and comedian Robin Williams returns to his stand-up Read More

The World According to Garp

Actors: Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Hume Cronyn

Synopsis: The 1982 film version of the John Irving novel The World According to Garp attempts to captures the quirky spirit while condensing the Irving original. Robin Williams plays the title character, the son of unmarried, unorthodox feminist Jenny Fields (Glenn Close, in her film debut). Every effort Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: The Tale of the Frog Prince

Synopsis: The Faerie Tale Theatre production of the classic fairy tale The Tale of the Frog Prince was adapted and directed by Monty Python alumnus Eric Idle and stars Robin Williams and Teri Garr. Williams plays a prince who is turned into a frog by a jilted fairy godmother. Garr is the princess who turns Read More

SCTV Network: Jane Eyrehead with Robin Williams and America

Actors: Robin Williams, America, Juul Haalmeyer, Don Lake, Mary Charlotte Wilcox

Synopsis: Robin Williams guest-stars as a flamboyantly gay Slip Mahoney in "The Bowery Boys in the Band.," which also manages to wedge in a brief spoof of The Deer Hunter." Elsewhere on the schedule, BBC Classics' "Jane Eyerhead" finds the airheaded Jane (Andrea Martin) accepting a job from Mr. Rochester (Joe Flaherty Read More

Robin Williams Live!

Synopsis: Robin Williams Live! captures a terrific 1981 performance by the manic stand-up comedian whose career was in full bloom following the phenomenal success of his sitcom Mork and Mindy A human electrical storm, he careens between subjects with relentless energy, zapping social trends, sex and popular Read More

Children of Babylon

Actors: Bob Andy, Leonie Forbes

Synopsis: A drama about the lifestyles of free-living Jamaicans, director Lennie Little-White's Babylon does not lack sexual encounters. The beauteous graduate student Penny (Tobi) is picked up hitchhiking by an equally attractive artist named Rick (Don Parchment). The two of them put up at a local Read More

Popeye

Actors: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul L. Smith, Paul Dooley

Synopsis: Based on the long-running comic strip created by E.C. Segar (and less on the animated cartoons created by Max Fleischer, which were decidedly different in tone and approach), Popeye follows the sailor man with the mighty arms (played by Robin Williams in his first major film role) as he arrives in Read More

Mork & Mindy: Season 01

Actors: Robin Williams, Pam Dawber

Comedy Tonight

Can I Do It... Till I Need Glasses?

Actors: Rock Riddle, Victor Dunlap, Moose Carlson

Synopsis: Sex is the basis for this randy revue which features jokes, bedroom vignettes, and courtroom scenes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Pecos Bill

Synopsis: Featuring the extraordinary vocal talents of Robin Williams and the music of Ry Cooder, this animated video contains a lively retelling of the popular western folktale. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Video Yesterbloop

Synopsis: This compilation tape features unexpected happenings on local TV news shows, funny animal footage, and bloopers and outtakes from such television shows as The Price Is Right, Happy Days, All My Children and One Day at a Time, among others. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Pecos Bill

Synopsis: This animated video features Pecos Bill and his adventures roping cyclones and moving rivers. Music is from Ry Cooder. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Best of Saturday Night Live: Hosted by Robin Williams

Actors: Robin Williams

In the Wild: Dolphins with Robin Williams

Synopsis: PBS's {^In the Wild} series follows famous actors as they travel to remote locations, accompanied by zoologists and guides, in order to meet and greet their favorite wild animals. This episode finds Robin Williams hamming it up for the camera as he swims in the ocean with a pod of 60 spotted Read More

Biography: Whoopi Goldberg

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Patrick Swayze, Alexandra Martin

Synopsis: Biography: Whoopi Goldberg documents the life of the Oscar winning actress from her difficult childhood, through her breakthrough on stage with the help of Mike Nichols, and her years as a movie star in such pictures as Ghost, Sister Act, and her debut in The Color Purple. ~ Perry Seibert, All Read More

Rome: Video Portrait of a City

Synopsis: This video offers a broad overview of the art and architecture of Rome. It also offers commentary on how that art and architecture has been appropriated by later empires intent on co-opting the imagery of the power and glory that was ancient Rome. In particular, the video offers commentary on Read More