Robin Williams, who grew up in Metro Detroit, dies at age 63 of apparent suicide; share your memories DETROIT, MI -- Actor-comedian Robin Williams, who spent some of his childhood in Metro Detroit, was reportedly found dead Monday in his home in Northern California of apparent suicide. Several news outlets including CNN, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post and The Hollywood Reporter reported the news and confirmed the death with the Marin County (Calif.) Sheriffs Office. Reuters says the sheriff’s coroner’s division said it suspects the death was a suicide due to asphyxia, but the cause of death is still under investigation. The 63-year-old Williams was born in Chicago, but told the Chicago Tribune in an 1988 interview that he moved to Metro Detroit when he was 5 or 6. He was a student at Detroit Country Day School and lived for a while with his family in Bloomfield Hills. The Chicago Tribune reported in an 1988 profile of Williams that he was tightly wrapped after being sent to the private school. An excerpt from the profile written by Gene Siskel: It was only before his senior year in 1968, when his family moved to trendy Marin County, Calif., that young Robin began to unwind with the much looser California crowd. The good vibrations from the summer of love in San Francisco were still around. Williams father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a senior executive at Ford Motor Company in charge of its Midwest region. Despite spending most of his later years in California, Williams childhood in Metro Detroit appeared to have a strong impact on him. People Magazine reported in 1991 that Williams 1989 performance as a passionate, iconoclastic teacher in Dead Poets Society was largely based on John Campbell, a teacher he had a Detroit Country Day. imdb/search/name?birth_place=Detroit%2C+Michigan%2C+USA&
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:18:04 +0000
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