Remembering a Great Actor

It was shocking to come home tonight and hear that Robin Williams was dead. So many of my favorite movies as a child to even now have him in it and that caliber of a movie is hard to find nowadays. Mrs. Doubtfire. Aladdin. Hook. Jumanji. The Birdcage. Jack. Flubber. Good Will Hunting. Patch Adams. August Rush. Night at the Museum. The Big Wedding. 

Every year, I watch Dead Poets Society before a big lecture day with my students to inspire me to keep thinking outside the box in order to reach others and remind me the impact of the connections teachers made between teachers and students.

"But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus. And always thus will be."

"O Captain! My Captain!"

"No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world."

http://youtu.be/IgZyO3ra6Rk

Link will take you to Robin Williams reading Shakespeare to the students. 

Probably one of the more forgotten voice roles of Robin Williams was Batty Koda in FernGully

http://youtu.be/W4fmVJ3nPs0 link will take you to the Batty Rap

His voices were always the best--that's why no one really remembers the second Aladdin movie, since Williams was not in it. 

I'm currently watching Dead Poets Society in memory of him. I'll be having a Netflix movie marathon of the works of Robin Williams. He and his work will be sorely missed.