Read more: The 101 Best Action Movies Ever Robin Williams had long ... live-action actor to lend their voice to an animated ...

Sometimes, we connect animated characters to the celebrity who voiced them, like Robin Williams and Genie in Aladdin. Other times, we forget entirely when a celebrity was part of a hit animated film.

Nathan Lane recalls 'generous' Robin Williams helping him get cast in The Birdcage: 'He didn't know who the hell I was' Conan O'Brien recalls Robin Williams' act of kindness after his Tonight Show ...

That discussion has swirled annually since the late 2010s — but it wasn’t part of the discourse on Feb. 27, 2005, when the 77th Academy Awards were held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles and “The ...