ROBIN WILLIAMS  - Ab 3. Juli  - FROM JULY 3rd

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Robin Williams called the greatest actor ever:

“There’s the rest of us, and then there’s him” 

As far as comedians-turned-actors go, Robin Williams might be the best of all time.

Plenty of icons and legends mastered both mediums, but is there anyone who did it to quite the same extent as the Academy Award-winning improvisational maestro?

Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey, Bill Murray, Jamie Foxx, and Peter Sellers are merely five performers who started out in stand-up or as sketch artists before taking cinema by storm, headlining hit movies, becoming global superstars, and winning plenty of acclaim and a bucketload of prestigious accolades along the way.

However, Williams always felt like he was in a class of his own. On stage, he was a force of nature. Sure, he was frequently accused of stealing jokes from other comics, but they couldn’t have delivered them like he did. His boisterous persona, effortless mastery of the non-sequitur, and penchant for pratfalling were unmatched, and he was every bit as good when he turned to drama.

Whether he was making audiences laugh or cry, Williams was phenomenal when he was at the top of his game. A certifiable comic genius and a dramatic powerhouse, he was one-of-a-kind. And yet, he wouldn’t dream of calling himself an actor with their own plane of existence when there was only one name he deemed worthy of being called a cut above.

(faroutmagazine.co.uk)

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