Robin Williams Set for `Law & Order'

LOS ANGELES — Robin Williams will guest star on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," but don't expect him to bring laughs to the NBC crime drama.

Williams is playing an "engineer whose life has gone terribly wrong" and who faces serious repercussions, series spokeswoman Pam Golum said Tuesday. The episode, which films later this month, is scheduled to air April 29.

After his breakthrough role on the 1980s sitcom "Mork & Mindy," Williams' career has mostly centered on a mix of movies, including "Good Morning, Vietnam," "Dead Poets Society" and "Patch Adams." He won an Academy Award for 1997's "Good Will Hunting."

The "Special Victims Unit" episode with Williams, titled "Authority," is the show's 200th, Golum said.

Comments

[MizJ]

10:29 PM on 03/20/2008

Add Robin Williams to the most annoying celebrity list. He acts like a 5 yr old child who needs to be reigned in and he is simply not funny. However, I will give him credit for being a fine actor. It is when he is allowed to run wild that I find him truly annoying to the max. He thinks he is another Jonathan Winters and he is not.

[Tyrione]

10:00 PM on 03/20/2008

A true American Icon and Treasure.

[MissingAmerica]

11:59 AM on 03/20/2008

He is an amazing man who brings his own incredible brand of talent to everything he does, from comedy to tragedy to horror. Can't wait to see this!

[sparkey]

06:41 PM on 03/19/2008

No comments on the two articles above this one. Did somebody slap somebody's hand and say" that is a no-no"?

[AurigaRa]

04:54 PM on 03/19/2008

Elliot Stabler is HOT!

[trailblazer]

09:43 PM on 03/20/2008

I am 51, my daughters are 20 and 22, and we agree. :-)

[PaulRaymond]

12:52 PM on 03/19/2008

Robin made a rather memorable appearance on Homicide, Life on the Street. He was good in that and can still be funny as well.

[bimplebean]

12:36 PM on 03/19/2008

I disagree with you - I think he can be hysterically funny, but he's found himself on the wrong end of some less than stellar scripts in his movie career.

However, when Williams gets a serious role he tamps it all down, reins it all in -- and yet the craziness is still there, bubbling under the surface, somehow perceptible on some subliminal level. This has given some of his dramatic performances some real energy and magnetism.

This role sounds perfect for him. I'm not a fan of the show but I may watch this one to see how he does.

[devilyousay]

10:46 AM on 03/19/2008

I'm not surprised he's going serious....he's not funny. His movies bomb because he isn't funny. He seems to think the maturity delayed man child schtick is still funny but when you get to his age, it's just cringe-inducing.

[Wayne76]

10:48 AM on 03/19/2008

And yet..his Doe-Eyed Serious mode can be just as cringe-inducing. (Except for Dead Poets Society, of course, which is a fine film)

[michie62]

10:39 AM on 03/19/2008

hooray-- a special guest for a landmark show--#200.
I am sure he will be as good as Martin Short was on svu.