Robin Williams, boisterous comedy star, dead at 63
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO -- Robin Williams, a brilliant shape-shifter who could channel his frenetic energy into delightful comic characters like "Mrs. Doubtfire" or harness it into richly nuanced work like his Oscar-winning turn in "Good Will Hunting," died Monday in an apparent suicide. He was 63.
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