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Highest-Grossing Robin Williams Movies

The genie, the nanny, and the night watchman. The highest-grossing Robin Williams movies, ranked by worldwide box office.

  1. 1

    Night at the Museum

    Williams played a wax Teddy Roosevelt who comes to life after dark opposite Ben Stiller's hapless night guard, in the 2006 family hit that grossed about $574 million worldwide.

  2. 2

    Aladdin

    Williams's manic, improvisational Genie redefined voice acting in Disney's 1992 animated classic, which earned roughly $504 million worldwide and remains one of his most beloved roles.

  3. 3

    Mrs. Doubtfire

    Williams plays a divorced dad who disguises himself as a Scottish nanny to be near his kids, in the 1993 comedy that grossed about $441 million worldwide.

  4. 4

    Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

    Teddy Roosevelt and the museum exhibits come to life again, this time at the Smithsonian, in the 2009 sequel that earned roughly $413 million worldwide.

  5. 5

    Happy Feet

    Williams voiced two characters in the Oscar-winning animated musical about a tap-dancing penguin, which grossed about $384 million worldwide in 2006.

  6. 6

    Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

    Williams's final live-action film sent the museum gang to London, a 2014 trilogy-capper that earned roughly $363 million worldwide.

  7. 7

    Hook

    Williams plays a grown-up Peter Pan who must rediscover his youth to rescue his children from Captain Hook, in Steven Spielberg's 1991 fantasy that grossed about $301 million worldwide.

  8. 8

    Jumanji

    Williams is a man freed from a magical board game after 26 years trapped inside, in the 1995 adventure that earned roughly $263 million worldwide and later inspired a hit reboot series.

  9. 9

    Robots

    Williams voiced the eccentric outcast Fender in the 2005 animated comedy set in a world of machines, which grossed about $263 million worldwide.

  10. 10

    Dead Poets Society

    Williams earned an Oscar nomination as the inspiring English teacher John Keating, urging his students to seize the day, in the 1989 drama that took in roughly $236 million worldwide.

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