Sam Neill Recalls Working With the Late Robin Williams, Says He Was “The Saddest Person” He Ever Met

Jurassic Park star Sam Neill shared his emotional memories of the late Robin Williams in his recent memoir.

Neill remembered the “great chats” he shared with the late comedian when they worked together on the 1999 film The Bicentennial Man, per Deadline. He described Williams as “irresistibly, outrageously, irrepressibly, gigantically funny,” but noted that he seemed “inconsolably solitary and deeply depressed.”

“He had fame, he was rich, people loved him, great kids—the world was his oyster. And yet I felt more sorry for him than I can express. He was the loneliest man on a lonely planet,” Neill wrote.

Williams died by suicide at the age of 63 in 2014. A statement from his publicist at the time said he had been “battling severe depression.”

Neill recounted his time working with Williams in his recently released memoir Did I Ever Tell You This? , which he wrote while he underwent cancer treatment. In it, he wrote about his decades-long career and his recent battle against stage three blood cancer.

Neill went on to describe Williams as “the saddest person” he “ever met,” but noted that he still thrived as a comedian.

“When everybody was in stitches, you could see Robin was happy,” Neill wrote.