The World Cup remembers Robin Williams. The comedian and actor who died in 2014 would have turned 69 on July 21. Fans celebrate the Oscar winner’s birthday with online tributes and celebrate his many memorable performances in films such as Dead Poets Society, Ms. Doubtfire and Good Morning, Vietnam.
Williams gave the impression in dozens of films from his decades-long Hollywood career. Here are its five most sensitive main roles, depending on IMDb users, and where you can stream them.
IMDb rating: 7.5
Williams earned one of his 3 Best Actor Oscar nominations for his role in this 1991 Terry Gilliam film. He plays a homeless man named Parry who befriends an discouraged ex-radio DJ named Jack (Jeff Bridges) and enlists him in his quest for the Holy Grail.
Fisher King can be purchased on Amazon Prime Video, iTunes and other streaming services. You can also broadcast it loosely on Pluto TV.
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IMDb rating: 7.8
Williams and Robert DeNiro co-starred in this 1990 film about a memoir through Oliver Sacks. Malcolm Sayer (Williams) is a doctor who takes on the task of caring about patients who have been catatonic for decades. After administering a new drug, its condition improves considerably. But new headaches arise when patients wake up and adapt to life in a new world and, as this clears up, the effects of the miracle drug are not permanent.
Awakenings is being streamed on Starz and can be contracted on Amazon Prime Video, iTunes and other streaming services.
IMDb rating: 8.0
He did not play the title character, however, Williams stole the screen as the voice of genius in the 1992 Disney animated film Aladdin. It is broadcast on Disney and can be purchased on Amazon Prime Video and iTunes.
IMDb rating: 8.1
A role in this 1989 film directed through Peter Weir earned Williams his Oscar nomination. (First in Good Morning, Vietnam in 1988). Williams played John Keating, a new instructor at an elite New England preparatory school in the late 1950s. It inspires its scholars to defy traditional wisdom, but the uprising it inspires has accidental consequences.
Dead Poets Society can be purchased on Amazon Prime Video, iTunes and other streaming services.
IMDb rating: 8.3
After three Best Actor nominations, Williams nevertheless won his first (and only) Oscar in the Best Supporting Actor category for his role in Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting. He plays a psychology professor who is helping a working-class MIT janitor/secret mathematics genius (Matt Damon) as he fights his own demons.
Good Will Hunting airs on Showtime and HBO Max; it can also be contracted on Amazon Prime Video, iTunes and other streaming services.
IMDb rating: 7.7
Williams has a modest but memorable role in Kenneth Branagh’s epic 1996 adaptation of Hamlet. He plays Osric, a courtier who invites Hamlet (Branagh) to fight in a duel with Laertes (Michael Maloney). Kate Winslet plays Ophelia, Derek Jacobi is Claudius and Julie Christie is Gertrude. Hamlet can be booked on Amazon Prime Video, iTunes and other streaming services.