Robin Williams portray the deep-driven man. From Dustin Hoffman, with whom he co-starred in "Hook", he learned to take on totally different character types, and to transform his characters by extreme preparation. Mike Medavoy, producer of "Hook", told its director, Steven Spielberg, that he intentionally teamed up Hoffman and Williams for the film because he knew they wanted to work together, and that Williams welcomed the opportunity of working with Spielberg. Williams benefited from working with Woody Allen, who directed him and Billy Crystal in "Deconstructing Harry" (1997), as Allen had knowledge of the fact that Crystal and Williams had often performed
Robin Williams and appeared on an episode of "" that aired on January 30, 2006. At the time of his death in 2014, Williams had appeared in four movies not yet released: "", "A Merry Friggin' Christmas", "Boulevard" and "Absolutely Anything". Williams appeared opposite Steve Martin at Lincoln Center in an off-Broadway production of "Waiting for Godot" in 1988. He made his Broadway acting debut in Rajiv Joseph's "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo", which opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on March 31, 2011. He headlined his own one-man show, "Robin Williams: Live on Broadway", that played at the Broadway theatre