Robin Williams in Insomnia
Robin Williams (1951 – 2014)
Film Deaths[]
- The World According to Garp (1982) [T.S. Garp]: Shot by Brenda Currin. The movie ends with Robin being taken away in a helicopter and talking to Mary Beth Hurt; although it's strongly implied that the wound is fatal, the movie ends before his actual death and leaves it up to the viewer's interpretation as to whether he survives.
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) [Ray D. Tutto, The King of the Moon]: Playing a character whose head can detach from his body and has another personality, Williams' body dies when the bird creature he is riding splits into three pieces and crashes while chasing Sarah Polley, John Neville and Eric Idle. (Played for Comic Effect) (Note: Williams is credited as Ray D. Tutto in the end credits)
- The Secret Agent (1996) [The Professor/Assassin]: Commits suicide by detonating the bomb he's carrying after walking out into a crowd of people (the scene cuts to black at the moment of detonation).
- Hamlet (1996) [Osric]: Stabbed in the stomach by soldiers when Rufus Sewell's army arrives; we see him clutching his wound as he announces Rufus' arrival. (It's not known if Robin's wound was supposed to be fatal, but it'll be listed in case).
- What Dreams May Come (1998) [Chris Nielsen]: Hit by a piece of wreckage when he attempts to help at the scene of a car accident (he dies as passerbys try to revive him); the rest of the movie takes place in the afterlife (which ends with him being reincarnated along with his wife as children.)
- Bicentennial Man (1999) [Andrew Martin]: After being transformed from a robot into a living human being, he dies of old age beside Embeth Davidtz and holding hands despite his life support to which Kiersten Warren confirms (Robin (and Embeth) are made to look much older than they actually were at the time).
- Jakob the Liar (1999) [Jakob]: Shot to death by the Gestapo, after tricking them into thinking that he’s going to turn himself in, then draws them away from Liev Schreiber to buy him time to get Hannah Taylor-Gordon out of the attic and escape the Nazis with the Russian army on a train, who have come to liberate the Jews.
- Insomnia (2002) [Walter Finch]: Shot in the chest by Al Pacino with a shotgun (after Robin shoots Al first with a concealed gun); he then falls through the floor of his cabin into the water (with his body sinking below the surface as a dying Al looks on) (See also Bjørn Floberg in the 1997 version).
- The Final Cut (2004) [Alan Hakman]: Shot repeatedly in the back and stomach by an assassin (Vincent Gale/Brendan Fletcher) at the end of a chase through a graveyard in order to view his post-death memory implants as Jim Caviezel looks on in shock. He dies while talking to Jim kneeling by his side.
- Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) [Dwight D. Eisenhower]: Dies (off screen) in the time between the flashback and modern day scenes.
- The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014) [Henry Altmann]: Dies of an aneurysm, after spending his last days reconciling with his family. (See also Assi Dayan in the 1997 version The 92 Minutes of Mr. Baum.)
Television Deaths[]
- The Richard Pryor Show (September 20, 1977) [Various]: In the courtroom skit, Robin is hung (off screen) by an angry racist jury for managing to get John Witherspoon off of his rape charges; the skit ends with the angry mob of jurors carrying Robin off. (Played for Comedic Effect)
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Authority (2008) [Merritt Rook]: Possibly drowns in the East River which he assumedly jumps into hand-cuffed after running from Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay. We don't actually see him jump in nor do they search for his body in the water, so his fate is left ambiguous, but it's listed here just in case.
Gallery[]
Robin Williams in Hamlet
Robin Williams in Bicentennial Man
Robin Williams in The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Notable Connections[]
- Father of Zelda Williams