What was your favorite Robin Williams performance?

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Svengoolie said:
The thing I remember him most from is Hook. His performance in that always stuck with me. Honorable mentions would be Dead Poets Society and of course Mrs. Doubtfire.

It confuses me the way people have brought up the Genie so much. I never really thought of that as a Robin Williams role. I mean doubly so considering he only did the voice in the first movie... after that, all the series and specials were done by Dan Castellaneta, voice of Homer Simpson. Robin was good as the Genie, don't get me wrong, but I never saw the man behind the cartoon there. Yet I've got all sorts of people my age acting like it's his magnum opus now, the Genie is now free from the lamp, I mean come on.

Genie was very much Robin Williams' character. The role was written with him in mind and once he agreed to do it he did a ton of improv while voicing Genie. Here's an article that might help you see how much Robin had to do with the character: http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/08/12/robin-williams-aladdin-eric-goldberg/

There's also a video in the article where you get to see him working in the studio (Robin's part starts at about 6:45)