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ARobin Williamsperformance was always full-out.

Where to watchMork & Mindy: PlutoTV

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It’s a coming-of-age story, really, with Williams as a believably confused, oddly endearing everyman.

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Robin Williams in ‘Dead Poets Society’; Robin Williams in ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’; Robin Williams in ‘The Birdcage’.Credit:Everett; 20th Century Fox/Everett; United Artists/Everett

Most of the broadcast scenes replete with raucously tangential jokes-within-jokes and Rod Serling impressions were Williams' motor-mouthed improvisations.

So it’s only natural that theMonty Pythonalum/auteurTerry Gilliamproved an ideal collaborator.

It’s over-the-top but with an undercurrent of genuine sadness.

Robin Williams was an unknown stand-up comedian when Garry Marshall cast him as the alien manchild from Planet Ork on an episode of Happy Days

Robin Williams and Pam Dawber on ‘Mork & Mindy’.Everett Collection

Where to watchAladdin: Disney+

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Doubtfire(1993)

The highest-grossing movie of 1993 was a blockbuster digital-effects epic about gigantic man-eating dinosaurs.

You don’t sit back and watch Sy go you agonizingly wait for him to erupt.

And now for something completely different: Fresh off Mork ’s cancellation, Williams played the all-too-human title character in this John Irving dramedy. We watch as

Mary Beth Hurt and Robin Williams in ‘The World According to Garp’.Everett Collection

Where to watchNight at the Museum: Hulu

Williams' golden period began with this loose biopic of Vietnam DJ Adrian Cronauer. Most of the broadcast scenes—replete with raucously tangential jokes-within-jokes and Rod Serling

Robin Williams in ‘Good Morning, Vietnam’.Everett Collection

John Keating quotes Whitman, he demands his students stand up on their desks, he whispers ‘‘seize the day’': A quarter century later, is there a

The cast of ‘Dead Poets Society’.Everett Collection

Williams was often at his best in projects that met his loopy sensibility. So it’s only natural that madman-auteur Terry Gilliam proved an ideal collaborator.

Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges in ‘The Fisher King’.Everett Collection

It’s hard to think of a single sentence uttered (and often improvised) by Williams in the Disney film that didn’t become etched in the brains

Genie (voiced by Robin Williams) sings ‘Friend Like Me’ in ‘Aladdin’.Everett Collection

The highest-grossing movie of 1993 was a blockbuster digital-effects epic about gigantic man-eating dinosaurs. And the second highest-grossing movie of 1993 was a comedy about

Robin Williams in ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’.Everett Collection

In Mike Nichols’ sweetly tart comedy-of-postmodern-manners, Williams is actually the most restrained member of the ensemble. Ceding the scenery-chewing (and the cross-dressing) to onscreen partner

Nathan Lane and Robin Williams in ‘The Birdcage’.Everett Collection

The scenes between Williams' therapist Dr. Sean Maguire and Matt Damon’s titular troubled savant crackle with unabashed emotion that goes beyond simple feel-goodery, and for

Matt Damon and Robin Williams in ‘Dead Poets Society’.Everett Collection

Quickly on the heels of the underappreciated Insomnia and Death to Smoochy , Williams hit a new dramatic peak playing a lonely and obsessive photo-counter

Robin Williams and Connie Nielsen in ‘One Hour Photo’.Everett Collection

Portraying the 26th President of the United States as a chipper parody of alpha-maledom, the actor’s Teddy Roosevelt is a goofily endearing tour guide. In

Ben Stiller and Robin Williams in ‘Night at the Museum’.Everett Collection