Robin Hugh Gibb, Template:Post-nominals (22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012) was a singer-songwriter and record producer. He was best known as a member of the pop group Bee Gees, which was co-founded with his fraternal twin brother Maurice and older brother Barry. Their younger brother Andy was also a singer. Gibb joined his first band the Rattlesnakes which formed in Manchester, England.Gibb was born on the Isle of Man to English parents, Hugh and Barbara Gibb; the family later moved to Manchester (where Andy was born) before settling in Redcliffe, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. Gibb began his career as part of the family trio (Barry-Maurice-Robin). When the group found their first success, they returned to England where they achieved worldwide fame. In 2002, the Bee Gees were appointed as CBEs for their "contribution to music". however investiture was delayed until 2004. With record sales estimated in excess of 200 million units, the Bee Gees became one of the most successful pop groups of all time. Music historian Paul Gambaccini described Gibb as "one of the major figures in the history of British music" and "one of the best white soul voices ever". After a career spanning six decades, Gibb last performed on stage in February 2012 supporting injured British servicemen and women at a charity concert at the London Palladium. On 20 May 2012, Gibb died at the age of 62 from liver and kidney failure brought on by colorectal cancer.As an instrumentalist, he primarily played a variety of keyboards, such as piano, organ and Mellotron on Bee Gees albums Bee Gees' 1st (1967) and Odessa, he also played guitar on his debut solo album Robin's Reign (1970).
[on 'Robin Williams (I)' (qv] It was as though he had three brains going at full speed all the time.
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I was born naked and walk around naked at home. My parents walked around naked and when my friends in school still thought babies were brought by storks I could tell them how they were really made. I have a very relaxed relationship[p with my genitals.
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[on any potential sexual awareness emanating from making "Nymphomaniac'I and II] Well, it's not only about that, but if you get a chance to learn about something that's good, isn't it? I'd never heard about the 'silent duck' before. I have a lot of female friends who consider me one of their girlfriends because they talk very openly in front of me, so I've heard quite a lot.
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Th main pleasure of working with Lars [von Trier] is that you feel absolutely free and safe, and you can't fail because if you fuck up it's considered good...We've matured a little, hopefully, but hopefully not too much.
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[on his first time on stage] I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.
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I'm not religious or anything, but to me it's great fun and it's nice to have a lot of kids. They take care of each other.
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There is no overacting, only untrue acting.
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It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.
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In Hollywood you got work around you all the time. You can't get a taxi without that the driver hands you a script. Where I live [in Sweden] people still read books that can't be made into film.
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Plays in two different movie roles in which his character orders "two boilermakers." The first is in the sports bar in Good Will Hunting (1997) and the second is in a bar in Thor (2011). Stellan Skarsgård says the word "boilermakers" in his very distinctive Swedish accent.
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Is the father of actors Alexander Skarsgård, Gustaf Skarsgård, Bill Skarsgård, Valter Skarsgård, and Sam Skarsgård.
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Kalmar and Öland, Sweden [July 2009]
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Became a father for the 8th time at age 61 when his 2nd wife Megan Everett-Skarsgard gave birth to their son Kolbjörn Skarsgård on August 24, 2012.
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Became a father for the 7th time at age 57 when his 2nd wife Megan Everett-Skarsgard gave birth to their son Ossian Skarsgård on April 26, 2009.
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Became a father for the 6th time at age 44 when his 1st [now ex] wife 'My Skarsgard' gave birth to their son 'Valter Skarsgard' in 1995.
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Became a father for the 5th time at age 41 when his 1st [now ex] wife 'My Skarsgard' gave birth to their daughter Eija Skarsgård in 1992.
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Became a father for the 4th time at age 39 when his 1st [now ex] wife 'My Skarsgard' gave birth to their son Bill Istvan Günther Skarsgård, aka 'Bill Skarsgard', on August 9, 1990.
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Became a father for the 3rd time at age 31 when his 1st [now ex] wife 'My Skarsgard' gave birth to their son Samuel Kristoffer Ymer Skarsgård, aka 'Sam Skarsgard', on June 5, 1982.
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Became a father for the 2nd time at age 29 when his 1st [now ex] wife 'My Skarsgard' gave birth to their son Gustaf Caspar Orm Skarsgård, aka 'Gustaf Skarsgard', on November 12, 1980.
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Became a father for the 1st time at age 25 when his 1st [now ex] wife 'My Skarsgard' gave birth to their son Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård, aka 'Alexander Skarsgard', on August 25, 1976.
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Frequently visits the city of Kalmar in the southeast of Sweden for summer vacation as he has family there.
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The Skarsgård family has a summer house in Öland, an island just off the coast of Kalmar, Sweden.
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Invited to join AMPAS in 2005.
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Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany's son Stellan was named after Skarsgard, who is a friend of Bettany's.
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Released the single "Bombi Bitt/Ler Mot Dej" in 1968, of which he is very ashamed today.
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Was considered for the part of Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List (1993).
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Claims people frequently mistake him for Liam Neeson.
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Signed the appeal Swedish Film Workers for Peace and Freedom in an Independent Palestine.
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