After having won the Academy Award for Good Will Hunting 1997, he sent Peer Augustinski who was his standard German dubbing voice a little Oscar replica with a note Thank you for making me famous in Germany.

After the open heart surgery to replace his aortic valve in 2009, Robin Williams became a vegetarian.

As a child, Robin Williams was very overweight. Nobody would play with him so instead , he started talking in different voices to entertain himself.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Williams had an addiction to cocaine and alcohol. He said it was the death of his close friend John Belushi and the birth of his eldest son what prompted him to quit these bad habits.

He also played in theatre. He appeared opposite Steve Martin at Lincoln Center in an Off-Broadway production of Waiting for Godot in 1988 or in Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo in 2011.

He is also the author of many both humorous and serious quotes such as Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.Or No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world

A Game Enthusiast,he named his daughter after Princess Zelda from The Legend of Zelda action-adventure game series. His son may have been named after Cody from the game Final Fight.

He was frequently called up by Steven Spielberg when he was filming his movie Schindler's List in 1993. Spielberg would put him on speaker phone so he could tell jokes to the cast and crew to cheer them up

Most of Williams' radio broadcasts in the 1987 war-comedy Good Morning, Vietnam were improvised. Williams was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for this movie.

Robin Williams dressed in scrubs and surprised his friend Christopher Reeve in the hospital following his career-ending accident. Reeve stated that it was the first time he laughed since the accident

Robin Williams enjoyed cycling very much and occasionally even trained with his longtime friend Lance Armstrong. Williams also supported his cancer research charity.

Robin Williams' make up in the 1993 comedy Mrs. Doubtfire took make up artists 5 hours each to achieve the transformation

Robin Williams was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California on December 12, 1990.

Robin Williams was one of the main candidates for the lead role of Joe Miller in Philadelphia but finally, Denzel Washington was preferred over him.

Robin Williams favorite television shows were Doctor Who and Star Trek.

When studying at Redwood High School in California, Williams was voted by his classmates the least likely to succeedboy were they wrong.

Throughout his successful career, Robin Williams received many awards including Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and five Grammy Awards.

When he auditioned for the role of Mork from Ork on Happy Days 1974, producer Garry Marshall told him to sit down. Williams immediately sat on his head and Gary said that's the only Alien that came to audition and gave him the part

When Williams was first starting out, he performed as a mime outside the New York Citys Metropolitan Museum of Art to make money

While best known for his thrilling humor, Robin Williams also explored darker characters and situations in movies. He played a creepy photo developer in One Hour Photo2002 a writer of pulp novels in "Insomnia 2002 and a weird radio host in "The Night Listener 2006

Williams' ancestry included English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, German, and French. He spoke French fluently.

Williams appeared fully nude in two movies The Fisher King 1991 and World's Greatest Dad 2009.

Williams co-owned the Rubicon restaurant in San Francisco with his friend Robert De Niro and fellow Bay area resident Francis Ford Coppola.

Williams devoted much of his time and energy to charities. For example, he supported St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and helped to rebuild the city of Christchurch after the 2010 earthquake in New Zealand.

Williams was a supporter of eco-friendly vehicles and owned over 50 bicycles.