Born on this day – Robin Williams:

Robin Williams

Actor

Comedian

July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014

Credits:

A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out (1992); A Wish for Wings That Work (1991); A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001); Absolutely Anything (2015); Aladdin (1992); Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996); Aladdin on Ice (1995); America 2-Night (1978); American Idol (2008); An All-Star Toast to the Improv (1988); An Evening at the Improv (1981); An Evening with Robin Williams (1983); August Rush (2007); Awakenings (1990); A Merry Friggin’ Christmas (2014); Back to Neverland (1989); Being Human (1994); Bicentennial Man (1999); Bobby McFerrin: Don’t Worry, Be Happy (1988); Boulevard (2014); Cadillac Man (1990); Can I Do It ‘Till I Need Glasses? (1977); Cinemax Comedy Experiment (1986); Club Paradise (1986); Comic Relief (1986); Dead Again (1991); Dead Poets Society (1989); Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987); Death to Smoochy (2002); Deconstructing Harry (1997); Disney’s Math Quest with Aladdin (1998); Eight Is Enough (1977); Everyone’s Hero (2006); Faerie Tale Theatre (1982); Fathers’ Day (1997); FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992); Flubber (1997); Freedom: A History of US (2003); Friends (1997); Good Morning, Vietnam (1987); Good Will Hunting (1997); Hamlet (1996); Happy Days (1978–1979); Happy Feet (2006); Happy Feet Two (2011); Homicide: Life on the Street (1994); Hook (1991); House of D (2004); In Search of Dr. Seuss (1994); Insomnia (2002); Jack (1996); Jakob the Liar (1999); Jimmy Kimmel & Ben Affleck: I’m Fucking Ben Affleck (2008); Jonathan Winters: On the Ledge (1987); Jumanji (1995); L.A. Doctors (1999); Laugh-In (1977–1978); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2008); License to Wed (2007); Louie (2012); Man of the Year (2006); Mork & Mindy (1978–1982); Mork & Mindy / Laverne & Shirley / Fonz Hour (1982); Moscow on the Hudson (1984); Mrs. Doubtfire (1993); Mrs. Doubtfire: Deleted Scenes (2003); Night at the Museum (2006); Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009); Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014); Nine Months (1995); Noel (2004); Old Dogs (2009); On Location: The Comedy Store’s 11th Anniversary Show (1983); One Hour Photo (2002); One Saturday Morning (1998); Out of the Blue (1979); Patch Adams (1998); Popeye (1980); Portrait of a White Marriage (1988); Pryor’s Place (1984); Rabbit Ears: Pecos Bill (1988); World’s Greatest Dad (2009); Rabbit Ears: The Fool and the Flying Ship (1991); Robin Williams Live on Broadway (2002); Robin Williams: An Evening at the Met (1986); Robin Williams: Elmer Fudd Sings Bruce Springsteen (1983); Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction (2009); Robots (2005); RV (2006); Saturday Night Live (2010); Saturday Night Live: The Best of Robin Williams (1991); SCTV Network (1982); Seize the Day (1986); Shakes the Clown (1991); Shrink (2009); Sorority ‘62 (1978); SpongeBob SquarePants (2009); The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014); The Best of Times (1986); The Big Wedding (2013); The Big White (2005); The Birdcage (1996); The Butler (2013); The Crazy Ones (2013–2014); The Earth Day Special (1990); The Earth Day Special (1990); The Face of Love (2013); The Final Cut (2004); The Fisher King (1991); The Larry Sanders Show (1994); The Night Listener (2006); The Richard Pryor Show (1977); The Rutles 2: Can’t Buy Me Lunch (2003); The Secret Agent (1996); The Survivors (1983); The Timekeeper (1992); The World According to Garp (1982); The Young Comedians All-Star Reunion (1986); To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995); Toys (1992); What Dreams May Come (1998); Wilfred (2012).

On this day in movie history - Dead Poets Society (1989)

Dead Poets Society

directed by Peter Weir,

written by Tom Schulman,

was released in the United States on June 2, 1989.

Music by Maurice Jarre.

“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

To quote from Whitman:

‘O me! O life! of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life? Answer: That you are here, that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.’

That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

What will your verse be?”

– Robin Williams, as John Keating.

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately …

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life!

To put to rout all that was not life …

And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived …

– Hand-written quote in this still is modified from the book Walden by Henry David Thoreau.

Cast:

Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Norman Lloyd, Kurtwood Smith, Dylan Kussman, Allelon Ruggiero, James Waterston, Alexandra Powers, Leon Pownall, George Martin, Carla Belver, Jane Moore, Kevin Cooney, Colin Irving, Matt Carey, John Cunningham, Joe Aufiery, Melora Walters, Welker White, Steve Mathios, Alan Pottinger, Pamela Burrell, Allison Hedges, Christine D’Ercole, Debra Mooney, John Martin Bradley, Charles Lord, Kurt Leitner, Richard Stites, James J. Christy, Catherine Soles, Hoover Sutton, James Donnell Quinn, Simon Mein, Ashton W. Richards, Robert Gleason, Bill Rowe, Robert J. Zigler III, Keith Snyder, Nicholas K. Gilhool, Jonas Stiklorius, Craig Johnson, Chris Hull, Jason Woody, Sam Stegeman, Andrew Hill, Serena Ebhardt, Joel Fogel, Newton Gilchrist, Barry Godin, Kate Kearney-Patch, Jamie Kennedy, Nancy Kirk, Stephen Podolak, Jeffrey Santoro, James R. Stoddard.

On this day in movie history - Spielberg (2017)

Spielberg

a documentary on director Steven Spielberg,

directed by Susan Lacy,

was released at the New York Film Festival in the United States on October 5, 2017.

Cast:

Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Richard Dreyfuss, Bill Butler, John Williams, David Edelstein, Michael Phillips, Nancy Spielberg, Anne Spielberg, Janet Maslin, Sue Spielberg, Leah Adler, Arnold Spielberg, J.J. Abrams, Sid Sheinberg, James Brolin, David Geffen, Roger Ernest, Steven Bochco, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Vilmos Zsigmond, Brian De Palma, Tony Kushner, Bob Balaban, Tom Hanks, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Melissa Mathison, Leonardo DiCaprio, A.O. Scott, Kathleen Kennedy, Harrison Ford, Tom Stoppard, Walter F. Parkes, Oprah Winfrey, J. Hoberman, Frank Marshall, Christian Bale, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Janusz Kaminski, Michael Kahn, Annette Insdorf, Dennis Muren, David Koepp, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Rick Carter, Robert Zemeckis, Ron Meyer, Laurie MacDonald, Cate Blanchett, Holly Hunter, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dustin Hoffman, Lawrence Kasdan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Todd McCarthy, Tom Cruise, Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Adam Somner, Joanna Johnston, Alan Alda, Karen Allen, William Atherton, Richard Attenborough, Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Ed Bradley, Tom Brokaw, Jessica Capshaw, Kate Capshaw, Dana Carvey, Bill Clinton, Sean Connery, Joan Crawford, Hugh Downs, Denholm Elliott, Peter Falk, Paul Freeman, Teri Garr, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Cary Guffey, Goldie Hawn, Alfred Hitchcock, Norman Howell, Amy Irving, Ben Johnson, Wayne Knight, Shia LaBeouf, Marcia Lucas, K.C. Martel, Mike Myers, George Negus, Al Pacino, Fievel Posner, Dan Rather, John Rhys-Davies, Terry Richards, Oliver Robins, Mark Rylance, Roy Scheider, Gene Shalit, Robert Shaw, Dinah Shore, Tom Snyder, Rebecca Spielberg, Sasha Spielberg, Theo Spielberg, David Strathairn, Henry Thomas, François Truffaut, Dennis Weaver, Robert Young, Margaret Avery, Ruby Barnhill, Marlon Brando, Edward Burns, John Candy, David Costabile, Melinda Dillon, Dakota Fanning, Morgan Freeman, Adam Goldberg, Alec Guinness, Mark Hamill, Hal Holbrook, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, Byron Jennings, Tommy Lee Jones, Charlie Korsmo, Ronald Lacey, Maurice LaMarche, Lee Majors, Joseph Mazzello, Samantha Morton, Sam Neill, Frances O'Connor, Kevin J. O'Connor, Peter O'Toole, Haley Joel Osment, Barry Pepper, Giovanni Ribisi, Ariana Richards, Miranda Richardson, Pat Roach, Geoffrey Rush, Amy Ryan, Omar Sharif, Martin Short, Tom Sizemore, Robert Stack, Christopher Walken, Dee Wallace, Robin Williams.

On this day in movie history - The Fisher King (1991)

The Fisher King

directed by Terry Gilliam, and written by Richard LaGravenese,

was released in the United States on September 27, 1991.

Music by George Fenton.

Cast:

Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Adam Bryant, Paul Lombardi, David Hyde Pierce, Ted Ross, Lara Harris, Warren Olney, Frazer Smith, Mercedes Ruehl, Kathy Najimy, Harry Shearer, Melinda Culea, James Remini, Mark Bowden, John Ottavino, Brian Michaels, Jayce Bartok, Dan Futterman, Bradley Gregg, William Jay Marshall, William Preston, Al Fann, Stephen Bridgewater, Amanda Plummer, John Heffernan, Chris Howell, Michael Jeter, Richard LaGravenese, Anita Dangler, Mark Bringelson, Johnny Paganelli, Diane Robin, Benjamin Redman, Lisa Blades, Christian Clemenson, Carlos Carrasco, Joe Jamrog, John de Lancie, Lou Hancock, Caroline Cromelin, Kathleen Bridget Kelly, Pat Fraley, Mel Bourne, Kristen Connors, Ruben Dario Cruz II, Larry Echerer, Kevin Fennessy, Ray Huffman, Jack Mulcahy, Peter Austin Noto, Stan Rodarte, Scott Seidman, Tom Waits.