10 Small Robin Williams Performances Worth Watching

Robin Williams appears in the 'He Frolicked His Way Through The 'Don't Worry, Be Happy' Music Video'.Robin Williams takes center stage.Robin Williams laughs, smiles, and goof around in Bobby McFerrin's 1988 "Don't Worry, Be Happy" music video. This fits the song's title well.

Williams shares the screen with McFerrin and Bill Irwin, a master of physical comedy.Williams is best known as Mr. Noodle.He appears on the Sesame Street show-within-a-show.He appears on Sesame Street.He appears in a show-within-a-show.He appears in Elmo's World.For most of the time, they just dance and play in front of the camera.They dance and play in front of the camera.A story plays out as McFerrin guides them through the lyrics.

The fun is silly, and Williams seems to enjoy himself.

Terry Gilliam'sThe Adventures of Baron Munchausen.The 1988 film adapts Rudolf Raspe's rollicking fantasy picaresque story for the big screen.The film is a rollicking fantasy picaresque.This film cost a lot at the time. It is a wild adventure with big visual effects and gorgeous costumes. It earned four Academy Award nominations, including Best Costume Design, but won none; it failed at the box office. Now, people see it as a cult classic.

Robin Williams is a highlight of this film. He plays the King of the Moon.He plays the King of the Moon, a giant being able to remove his head to fly across the moon.This King of the Moon is completely mad, shifting from funny humor to scary menace.

Williams was uncredited for the role. He chose to be credited as "Ray D. Tutto".He is credited as Ray D. Tutto.His credit is "rei di tutto," a play on "King of Everything.".

Robin Williams began his celebrated voiceover work with the Genie in "A.I. Artificial Intelligence".Williams voiced the Genie in Aladdin.Williams performed rapid-fire improv. Animators reworked several scenes to keep up with him. He lent his voice to many characters, including one many forgot—Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence.Williams voiced a character in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

In the movie, an android named David seeks to be a "real boy" by finding the Blue Fairy. This sends him to Rouge City, where he meets Dr. Know, a holographic program acting like a search engine. Dr. Know's answers cost money, and it is programmed to encourage paid questions.

David asks Dr. Know.Dr. Know directs the android to Manhattan. Williams shows his vocal talent during his few minutes on screen.

Nine MonthsNine Months is a forgettable rom-com from the mid-1990s. It follows a couple facing relationship problems while dealing with an unexpected pregnancy. Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore star as the leads. They try their best, but the film sometimes slows down with sentimentality. However, Williams's performance as Dr. Kosevich, the obstetrician who delivers Moore's baby, gives the film an adrenaline shot in a few scenes.

Williams plays the good doctor at his best. He portrays a Russian immigrant and former Communist Party member. His command of English is weak. His decade in the Soviet Union involved working with animals. He has only practiced with humans for about a month, which does not make the expecting couple feel at ease.

Dr. Kosevich manages to deliver the baby. The parents, however, do not want him to circumcise their newborn son. This causes them to rush to keep him out of the room.Robin Williams plays at his most hilarious.

2013'sThe ButlerThe film tells the story of Eugene Allen, called Cecil Gaines and played by Forest Whittaker. He is a White House butler who served eight US presidents. Williams portrays one of those Presidents.Williams plays Dwight D. Eisenhower.Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Williams played Theodore Roosevelt, or a waxwork version of him, in the Night at the Museum franchise. This time, Williams gives a more direct, dramatic take on the chief executive he plays.Night at the MuseumWilliams gives a more straight-up dramatic interpretation of the chief executive he plays.

Williams's scenes focus on the moment during Eisenhower's presidency. He had to decide whether to send Federal troops to Little Rock, AR, to enforce the Supreme Court's ruling that segregated schooling was unconstitutional. Williams described playing the character as "a tough job for me."Williams described playing the character as "a tough job for me.""a tough job for me."

Many would not expect Williams to play this character. He joked that people told him he should play Truman. Still, Williams honors Eisenhower, playing the man with quiet dignity. The film came out the year before Williams took his own life.

NoelNoel, a Christmas drama directed by Chazz Palminteri, stars Paul Walker, Alan Arkin, Penélope Cruz, Daniel Sunjata, and Susan Sarandon. The story involves five New Yorkers meeting on Christmas Eve to find a miracle. Williams plays Charles "Charlie" Boyd/The Priest in one of his many uncredited roles.uncreditedroles.

Charlie appears in adark momentCharlie saves Susan Sarandon's character Rose as she jumps off a pier into icy water. He explains that he was a priest for 20 years but "kicked the habit." Charlie befriends Rose; they share life stories at the pier and during a cab ride.

NoelNoel received little attention when it was released. Revisiting it shows how humor, melancholy, and quiet wisdom combine in Williams's on-screen persona.

Robin Williams appeared opposite Kenneth Branagh in the latter's 1996 version of Hamlet.Hamlet. Williams plays Osric.Osric.Osric is an insubstantial nobleman who referees the fencing match between Hamlet (Branagh) and Laertes (Michael Maloney). Hamlet runs verbal circles around Osric when they meet, showing open contempt. Williams's confused replies make one of the film's funniest moments.

Casting Williams happened only once.Branagh made many similar choices.Branagh made these choices for Hamlet.Hamlet.Branagh placed actors with big resumes in small parts. Judy Dench plays Hecuba, the queen of Troy seen only in a story inside a story, and John Gielgud plays her husband Priam. Charlton Heston plays the Player King, Jack Lemmon is a night watchman, and Williams's friend Billy Crystal plays the gravedigger who meets Hamlet.

The The 2005 documentary.The Aristocrats.The movie centers on a famous dirty joke about a family trying to get an agent. The joke is revealed to be very vulgar and offensive. Many celebrities and comics tell their version or changes of the joke. This gross humor binds comedians through its extreme power, suitable only for Friars Club roasts.

A wind-swept Williams, with the Golden Gate Bridge visible, appears a couple of times to tell offensive jokes he knows. One scene cuts with Drew Carey telling the same joke about a musician whose songs all have dirty names. The editing creates a duet effect.

Kenneth Branagh's supernatural romantic thriller.Dead Again.Dead Again tells the story of a woman (Emma Thompson) with amnesia, suffering nightmares about a pianist's murder from four decades prior. A private detective, played by Branagh, tries to help her, learning the two are linked through their past lives.

This realization comes with help from Dr. Cozy Carlisle.Dr. Cozy Carlisle.Carlisle, played by Robin Williams. He is a psychologist working in a supermarket. Carlisle believes in past lives and can hypnotize people to help them relive them. Much of the plot depends on what Carlisle helps the main characters find out about the past and themselves.

Williams plays a role that is not comedic, but he still brings his charm, though with a sharper, more sarcastic edge than usual.

Woody Allen's.Deconstructing Harry.The humor explores a successful writer. He realizes his work alienated friends and family, partly because he used their lives in his writing while going to an event honoring him.

One of Harry's stories involves an actor named Mel (Williams), who is Harry's literary alter ego. While shooting a movie, Mel literally slips out of focus.Mel literally slips out of focus.Harry blurs while everything else stays sharp. The camera crew swaps lenses; it fails. Mel's softness shows Harry's lack of focus in daily life.

Mel goes home, telling his wife (Julie Kavner) and kids about his situation. It feels strange, funny, and relatable. His son repeats "Daddy's out of focus" before Mel goes to sleep. Upon waking, things worsen. After a doctor's visit, the family gets glasses to see Mel without eye pain. The children resist the glasses but must wear them, showing that you expect the world to change for your distortion.