Make a Comment • Email Link • Send Letter to Editor

Robin Williams: 1951 - 2014

08-12-2014 • Next News Network

The world lost one of it?s best and brightest actors this week. Oscar-winner Robin Williams was found dead in his California home on Sunday. Investigators believe it was a possible suicide. Those of us here at WHDT remember Robin Williams best as the alien from Mork and Mindy, the genie from Aladdin, the psychiatrist from Good Will Hunting and the grown-up Peter Pan from Hook. Even the funniest comedians on the planet couldn?t outmatch his quick wit. The sad news of Williams? passing was met with love and support from some of his closest friends: Henry Winkler says he was like no other.To watch him create on the spot was a privilege to behold. Conan O?Brien tweeted, Absolutely stunned to hear the news about Robin Williams. It's unimaginable to me that we've lost such a genuinely funny and sweet man. Here?s a picture of Kathy Griffin with Robin Williams and his mentor, Jonathan Winters. Williams joked that Winters preferred to be called his idol. Fellow funnyman Ste