A look-back at Robin Williams with U.S. troops overseas

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Robin Williams was an avid supporter of the US military, and made many visits to troops stationed overseas.

The U.S. Defense Department video highlights Williams' visits Kuwait and Afghanistan.

Williams, the versatile actor whose madcap comic style made him one of television and film's biggest stars, was found dead on Monday from an apparent suicide at his home in Tiburon, Northern California. He was 63.

The comedian's appeal stretched across generations and genres, from family fare as the voice of Disney's blue Genie in "Aladdin" to his portrayal of a fatherly therapist in the 1997 drama "Good Will Hunting," for which he earned his sole Oscar.

But many remembered the master of impressions on Monday for his tender portrayal in "Mrs. Doubtfire", when he played the part of a British nanny whose identity he assumed as a divorced father to be with his children.

According to his publicist, Williams had been recently suffe