Robin Williams’ Associates Keep in mind His Legacy 10 Years After His Demise (Unique)

Robin Williams‘s pals and collaborators are remembering the legendary comic 10 years after his dying.

The Oscar-winning actor, who starred in motion pictures like Good Will Looking, Aladdin and Useless Poets Society, died by suicide at 63 on Aug. 11, 2014, leaving the world surprised and saddened.

“I had enjoyable with Robin Williams as a result of he intellectually was extra knowledgeable, had extra historical past, extra data, extra vocabulary than anyone,” producer George Schlatter tells PEOPLE. Schlatter was one of many first folks to place Williams on tv, reserving him for the present Snigger In through the sequence’ revival on NBC in 1977.

“A dialogue with Robin was thrilling since you by no means knew the place it was gonna go as a result of he had a lot data. That mind was so full of data,” Schlatter provides. “He was greater than a performer. He was an expertise.”

Because the 94-year-old producer says, each performer they paired Williams with on digital camera “held Robin in awe” resulting from his unbelievable wit and huge intelligence.

“Frankly, I am not too positive there was ever an off-stage Robin,” Schlatter says when requested what Williams was like when he was not performing. “That thoughts was working on a regular basis.”

Comic and actor Pauly Shore additionally knew Williams from his earliest days acting at The Comedy Retailer in Los Angeles, which Shore’s dad and mom co-founded in 1972. “The man was particular,” Shore, 56, tells PEOPLE, as he recalled watching Williams carry out throughout his childhood. “They undoubtedly broke the mildew after they made him. Simply take a look at previous footage — even anybody can testify to that he was simply distinctive, and his improv expertise combined in with the standup was simply one other degree.” 

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Williams’ profession took off within the Nineteen Eighties when he costarred within the ABC sitcom Mork & Mindy as an alien from the planet Ork. He made his movie debut in 1980’s Popeye, which led him towards an performing profession that noticed him take over 100 onscreen roles over the following three a long time till his dying. Along with his award-winning and critically-acclaimed roles, Williams additionally starred in beloved movies like Mrs. Doubtfire, The Birdcage, Hook and the Night time on the Museum movies, amongst others.

Scott Weinger, the actor who voiced the title character in Disney’s 1992 animated traditional Aladdin, tells PEOPLE that he revered Williams’ work for years earlier than the pair first met, when he was 15, to start work on the film.

“Simply being in his presence freaked me out, and I did not know what to anticipate. However he was so calm and charming and disarming,” Weinger, now 48, says, recalling that he at first felt shocked by how pensive Williams appeared. “We had been trying on the storyboards collectively and speaking in regards to the script and speaking with our administrators, after which lastly when the recording studio pink mild turned on, some form of magical swap bought flipped and he was the Robin Williams that I used to be anticipating. He was superb. He was unbelievable, either side of him — the form of calm and soothing facet, and the manic genius facet.”

Williams’ dying shocked your entire leisure trade in 2014. “It actually was a kind of superstar deaths the place it actually felt that the world had modified in some elementary manner,” Weinger says. However as Schlatter, the person who helped give Williams certainly one of his first huge breaks in present enterprise, says, Williams was greater than a comic.

“Robin was not only a pal and never simply an worker — he was an journey and he was a significant a part of my life,” Schlatter tells PEOPLE. ” I cherish the occasions I spent with Robin Williams.”