Robin Williams Found Dead in Possible Suicide

[BABY1]

Veteran film and television comedic actor Robin Williams was found dead on Monday. He was 63.
The cause of death is believed to be suicide via asphyxiation, according to the coroner’s office in Tiburon, Calif. He was found in his home.
His publicist Mara Buxbaum said the actor had been battling depression of late.
“This is a tragic and sudden loss,” she said in a statement. “The family respectfully asks for their privacy as they grieve during this very difficult time.”
Williams is best known for both comedic and dramatic roles in movies including “Good Will Hunting,” for which he won a Best Supporting Actor in 1997. In addition, he won several Emmys, Golden Globes.

[BABY1]

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Excellent actor!!!

[sofargone561]

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That's crZy

[sofargone561]

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He was a great actor I'm shocked

[BABY1]

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Holy shit.Wow,I hadn't heard.

That sucks.He was a great actor and an even better comedian back in the day.Very sad to hear about not only his death but the depression he was going thru that led him to suicide.

Like I said to Fuzo, there are some that just are so damn funny and make people laugh yet they are so sad on the inside. What a shame

[animal87]

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Man I liked him.

[MOUNTAIN-MAN]

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Wow I just watched rv agin yesterday truley a loss

[guns01]

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man just goes to show you never know. rip to a very funny man

[animal87]

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Thats true life is much too precious to waste it. If you dont feel like you have something to live for now you can go find something.

[BABY1]

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Some people just find it VERY hard to get out of a dark place or moment.

[animal87]

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Yea I understand both sides of it. I've known alot of people like that you just want to shake them and make them wake up or something.

[apbt549]

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wow that's crazy.. he was a great actor.. ashame to see something like that.. its hard to image someone who made some many laugh had depression problems..

he will be truly missed...

[Dzone]

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I read somewhere that he had been doing cocaine recently. Not sure if thats true, but if it is -doing coke in your 50s and 60s is a sure way to depression and death. He may have been trying to do himself in

[Rake]

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What he didn't have enough money to pay his bills. Maybe he would of been happier if he more fame. He was a coward no matter what anybody says. There are single moms raise kids and working everyday with no money and no fame. This guy had everything and should be remembered as a Coward.

[MrzDiva]

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Robin Williams, the manic comic who morphed from TV's Mork from Ork to Oscar-winning glory, is dead of an apparent suicide. He was 63.
Emergency personnel were called to Williams's home in Tiburon, California, at 11:55 a.m. local time, per the Marin County Sheriff's Office.

Williams was found unconscious and pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities are investigating the death, and an autopsy is forthcoming, but initial evidence points to "a suicide due to asphyxia," according to Marin Sheriff's Lt. Keith Boyd.

In a brief statement, publicist Mara Buxbaum said Williams had been "battling severe depression of late. This is a tragic and sudden loss. The family respectfully asks for their privacy as they grieve during this very difficult time."

"This morning, I lost my husband and my best friend," said Williams's wife, Susan Schneider.

"While the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken. On behalf of Robin's family, we are asking for privacy during our time of profound grief. As he is remembered, it is our hope the focus will not be on Robin's death, but on the countless moments of joy and laughter he gave to millions."

In July, Williams entered rehab for the second time, but not because of a relapse.

"After working back-to-back projects, Robin is simply taking the opportunity to fine-tune and focus on his continued commitment, of which he remains extremely proud," the actor's publicist said at the time.

Williams reportedly spent a few weeks at Hazelden Addiction Treatment Center in Minnesota.

The actor spoke publicly about his battle with substance abuse. In 2006, he sought treatment for alcoholism after 20 years of sobriety. A rep for the actor said in a statement that Robin "found himself drinking again and has decided to take proactive measures to deal with this for his own well-being and the well-being of his family."

During an interview with Good Morning America months later, Williams explained that falling back into alcohol abuse was "very gradual."

"It's the same voice thought that… you're standing at a precipice and you look down, there's a voice and it's a little quiet voice that goes, 'Jump,'" Williams told Diane Sawyer. "The same voice that goes, 'Just one.' … And the idea of just one for someone who has no tolerance for it, that's not the possibility."

When asked why he relapsed, Robin answered: "It's [addiction] — not caused by anything, it's just there… It waits. It lays in wait for the time when you think, 'It's fine now, I'm OK.' Then, the next thing you know, it's not OK. Then you realize, 'Where am I? I didn't realize I was in Cleveland.'"

The actor admitted he also struggled with cocaine abuse in the early 1980s while starring in the sitcom Mork and Mindy, but quit cold turkey after his friend John Belushi's fatal overdose in 1982.

"Cocaine for me was a place to hide," Williams told People in 1988. "Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn. And I was so crazy back then — working all day, partying most of the night — I needed an excuse not to talk. I needed quiet times and I used coke to get them."

A Chicago native, Williams spent time at Juilliard, where he was briefly classmates with Christopher Reeve.

After an appearance on NBC's Richard Pryor Show, he got his big break, playing the wacky alien Mork in what was supposed to be a one-off guest role on ABC's Happy Days. "We started rehearsing and I realized that I was in the presence of greatness," star Henry Winkler recalled on CNN Monday night. "No matter what you said to him, no matter what line you gave to him, he took it in he processed it and it flew out of his mouth never the same way twice and it was incredibly funny every time."

The character proved so popular that he commanded his own spinoff. Mork & Mindy, costarring Pam Dawber and Jonathan Winters, became a phenomenon, spiking sales of rainbow-colored suspenders and adding "nanu-nanu" and "shazbot" to the lexicon. The sitcom ran from 1978 to 1982.

Williams made the leap to film, with a string of wildly successful movies, showing a range beyond the motor-mouthed improvisation he built his standup career on: The World According to Garp, Moscow on the Hudson, Awakenings, The Birdcage, Mrs. Doubtfire, Patch Adams, and Insomnia. He carved out a rich career as a voice-over actor in such animated features as Aladdin, Happy Feet, Robots, and FernGully.

He earned Oscar nods for Dead Poets Society, The Fisher King and Good Morning, Vietnam, before finally capturing the elusive statuette by upstaging Matt Damon and Ben Affleck with a touching supporting role in Good Will Hunting.

Among the films he completed before his death were May's The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, with Peter Dinklage and Mila Kunis, and the upcoming Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, where he reprised his role of Teddy Roosevelt in the Ben Stiller-led franchise. The latter is slated to open in December.

Despite being one of Hollywood's most bankable movie stars, Williams never forgot his TV roots. Through the years he fronted several standup concerts and joined with Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal to launch the Comic Relief television specials. Williams also made memorable appearances on Friends, Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order: SVU, and The Larry Sanders Show.

He returned to television in last season's CBS comedy series The Crazy Ones opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar. The show was canceled in May.

In addition to his Academy Award, Williams won two Emmys, five Grammys, six Golden Globes (including the career-capping Cecil B. DeMille Award). He also won the admiration of generations of top comedic talent.

He is survived by Schneider and three adult children from two earlier marriages, daughter Zelda, and sons Zachary, 31, and Cody, 22.

In his final tweet and Instagram post on July 31, Robins wished his daughter a happy 25th birthday: "#tbt and Happy Birthday to Ms. Zelda Rae Williams! Quarter of a century old today but always my baby girl. Happy Birthday @zeldawilliams Love you!"