Cherry Hill East Graduate Recalls Working With Robin Williams

A Disney animator from Cherry Hill experienced his “Oh My God, I’m in Hollywood” moment thanks to Robin Williams.

Eric Goldberg, an animator, film director and voice actor who graduated from Cherry Hill High School East, drew the Genie for the 1992 Disney movie, “Aladdin.”

He knew he had arrived when he completed his test animations for the Genie and Williams, who played the character in the movie, came in to see them, according to an interview posted on Entertainment Weekly’s website Tuesday evening,

“I cannot tell you what great joy it gave me to make Robin Williams laugh. I was such a huge fan,” Goldberg said in the interview, published about 24 hours after the world learned of Williams’ tragic death at the age of 63.

Goldberg closed his studio, Pizzazz Pictures, based out of London, to join Disney and work on Aladdin.

The two also crossed paths when Goldberg introduced “Fantasia 2000,” Goldberg said in the interview.

Goldberg was born in Levittown, Pennsylvania and moved to Cherry Hill as a child.

For more, visit insidemoviesew.com.