Parry in The Fisher King (1991)
In The Fisher King, Williams plays a crazed but witty homeless man named Parry who became unhinged after witnessing his wife’s death unintentionally caused by former radio DJ Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges). A remorseful Jack soon realizes that to save himself, he first must save Parry, a role which landed Williams his third and final Academy Award Best Actor nomination.
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