ROBIN WILLIAMS - WILLIAMS HONOURED WITH FILM AWARD

WILLIAMS HONOURED WITH FILM AWARD

Robin Williams' prolific Hollywood career will be honoured later this year by the San Francisco Film Society.

The legendary actor is set to receive the Peter J Owens acting award on May 3rd at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

Previous recipients of the honour include Dustin Hoffman, Annette Bening, Sean Penn and Kevin Spacey. It claims to be handed to "legends in the world of cinema".

"A perennial top-finisher, with Albert Einstein in the best-loved genius stakes, Robin Williams is a superb actor with many wonderful roles under his belt, but his greatest performances, the ones for which he is adored and admired the world over, are when he is being his brilliant prismatic self," festival director Graham Leggat said in comments reported by Variety.

Williams, 54, will also attend a public presentation on May 4th at the Castro theatre with film clips, an onstage interview and a screening of his 1991 hit The Fisher King.

After rising to fame in the television series Mork & Mindy, Williams has gone on to star in numerous films including Good Morning, Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, Hook and Mrs Doubtfire.

He can next be seen on cinema screens in August Rush and License to Wed.