From Mrs. Doubtfire to Jumanji: Here are Robin Williams' 10 biggest box-office hits

[caption id=“attachment_93365” align=“alignleft” width=“860”] Veteran actor and comedian Robin Williams died on Monday in an apparent suicide at the age of 63. The award-winning actor’s career spanned stand-out performances in television, movies and stand-up comedy. Here’s a list of some of Williams’ most famous films that made a mark at the US box-office. The figures have been taken from IMDB.
Night at the Museum (2006) - $250,863,268. In this Ben Stiller-starrer where the inhabitants of New York’s Museum of Natural History come alive at night, Williams played former US President Theodore Roosevelt. He essayed the same role in the sequel as well.[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_93363” align=“alignleft” width=“860”] Mrs Doubtfire (1993) - $219,195,051. Williams will be perhaps be best remembered for his turn as the cross-dressing British housekeeper Mrs. Doubtfire. In the movie, Williams plays a divorced father who disguises himself as a housekeeper to spend time with his children and the performace earned him a Golden Globe for his performance. The movie was so well-received the world over that it was remade in multiple languages, including as Chachi 420 in India.[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_93365” align=“alignnone” width=“860”] Aladdin (1992) - $217,042,825. For children of the early 1990s, Williams is immortal as the voice of the fast-talking, wish-granting blue genie in Disney’s Aladdin. He also sang his own songs. Fun fact from IMDB, Williams improvised so much that Disney had over 16 hours of recording material.[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_93362” align=“alignleft” width=“860”] Happy Feet (2006) - $197,992,827. In this animated movie about a group of singing Emperor Penguins, Williams voiced two characters - the Spanish influenced Ramon and the guru-like Lovelace who shared his wisdom with the penguins for the price of a rock. The movie won multiple awards including an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film in 2007. Reuters[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_93369” align=“alignleft” width=“860”] Good Will Hunting (1997) - $138,339,411. In Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s debut movie, Williams plays therapist Sean Maguire who helps Damon’s character Will Hunting, a genius janitor at MIT, find his way in life. Williams won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor the following year, while Damon and Affleck picked up Oscars for Best Writing and Screenplay.[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_93370” align=“alignleft” width=“860”] Patch Adams (1998) - $135,014,968. Based on a true story, Williams plays medical student Hunter Adams who wore a clown-like red-nose and used humour and laughter to cure medical patients, much to the chagrin of the US medical community in the 1970s. Williams received a Golden Globe nomination for the performance.[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_93368” align=“alignleft” width=“860”] The Birdcage (1996) - $123,986,682. Williams plays a gay cabaret bar owner, Armand Goldman, who with his on-screen husband Nathan Lane have to put on a show of being a ’normal’ family for the sake of their son’s future marriage to the daughter of an uptight American Senator played by Gene Hackman. The film, an adaptation of a French play was well received at the US box office.[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_93364” align=“alignleft” width=“860”] Good morning, Vietnam (1987) - $123,922,370. Williams played Adrian Cronauer, a radio jockey assigned to a US base during the Vietnam War tasked with raise troop morale. Williams’ performance, one of his first roles in a dramatic role, earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role.[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_93366” align=“alignleft” width=“860”] Jumanji (1995)- $100,475,249. In the ultimate board-game movie, Williams played Alan Parrish, trapped inside a magical game, Jumanji, for 26 years and released only to play the entire game again to ensure his hometown isn’t ruined by the bevy of beasts unleashed by the game with him.[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_93367” align=“alignleft” width=“860”] Dead Poets Society (1989) - $95,860,116. Mandatory college viewing, Dead Poets Society saw Williams as an English teacher who implored his students to ‘carpe diem’ or seize the day. Williams received another Oscar nomation for Best Actor for his performance in the movie.[/caption]