Inside the amazing homes of our favourite 90s film stars

Now, one of the late actor’s homes is for sale – listed for an extraordinary $25 million (£20.1m). Built in 1926, the six-bedroom, seven-bathroom home sprawls across almost 11,000 square feet of a 0.4-acre lot in an exclusive San Francisco enclave. Click or scroll on to take a tour…

The star of family favourites such as Hook, Mrs Doubtfire and Aladdin, legendary actor Robin Williams was an icon of his generation. As well as his faultless comedic performances, he earned critical acclaim for dramas like Good Morning, Vietnam and Dead Poets Society, as well as Good Will Hunting, for which he won an Oscar.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, the beloved performer built up an estimated net worth of around $50 million (£40.2m) before his tragic death in August 2014, aged just 63.

Let’s take a look around one of the many incredible homes Williams bought during his lifetime, which has just hit the market…

Located in Sea Cliff, one of San Francisco’s most sought-after neighbourhoods, Williams spent $3.2 million on the stunning home in 1991, around $7.2 million (£5.8m) in today’s money. He was no doubt attracted to its characterful features, such as the impressive stone fireplace and imposing beams in this sun-filled drawing room.

Period details abound throughout the house, including ornate mouldings, wide plank hardwood flooring and built-in cabinetry, as well as carved archways, marble columns and patterned terracotta tiles.

Every room makes the most of the Californian sunshine, featuring French doors or multiple large windows. We can just imagine the entertainer hard at work in this tasteful study, thinking up his famous one-liners.

Williams shared the home with his second wife, film producer and philanthropist Marsha Garces, before the pair divorced in 2010 after 21 years of marriage. Garces kept the home following their split and has lived in it ever since.

While the property itself is impressive, it’s the breathtaking vistas that really set this home apart. Imagine soaking in the tub while taking in this dramatic view of the Golden Gate Bridge! The outlook stretches from the Pacific Ocean to the Marin Headlands and the mouth of the Bay.

Elsewhere, house hunters will find a movie theatre, a Prohibition-era bar hidden behind wood panelling and a secret passageway linking the children’s bedrooms, according to Robb Report.

The villa was originally built by architect Earle B. Bertz for a lumber magnate and was designed in a distinctive Italian Renaissance style.

Decades later, Robin and Marsha carried out an extensive renovation of the home, which they shared with their two children. “Marsha and Robin Williams took the house down to the studs and rebuilt it in the early nineties, updating all the major systems,” the listing agent, Steven Mavromihalis, said in a press statement.

“They expanded the home to its current 10,598 square feet on three levels. However, they took great pains to preserve the rare and valuable building materials used in 1926, which are simply no longer available in the construction of modern homes.”

Now on the market for $25 million (£20m), Marsha is downsizing and saying goodbye to the home she has lived in for more than 30 years. “It’s a beautiful, happy house,” she told The Wall Street Journal. “We had many, many fantastic years of fun and play and joy there.”

Much like Williams himself, his former home is a place that “flawlessly balances boundless beauty and grace, with childlike mirth and exuberance”, according to the listing.

“It is everything you imagine Robin Williams to be,” Mavromihalis told the WSJ.