Richard Williams
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1933-03-19 (86 years old)
Deathday
2019-08-16
Place of Birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Also known As
Richard Edmund Williams
Richard Williams
Biography
Richard Edmund Williams (March 19, 1933-August 16, 2019) was a Canadian–British animator, voice artist, and writer, best known for serving as animation director on Disney/Amblin's Who Framed Roger Rabbit and for his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler. He was also a film title sequence designer and animator; his most famous works in this field included the title sequences to What's New, Pussycat? (1965) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) and title and linking sequences in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968). He also animated the eponymous cartoon feline for two of the later Pink Panther films.
Acting
1988
as Droopy (voice)
1976
as Self
2012
as Himself
2002
1988
as Himself
2009
as Self (archive footage)
1989
as Droopy Dog (voice)
1982
1982
as Crooked Santa (voice)
Production
1993
as Director
1993
as Animation
1993
as Producer
1993
as Screenplay
1977
as Director
1958
as Director
1958
as Writer
2015
as Animation
1990
as Animation Director
1968
as Opening Title Sequence
1965
as Opening Title Sequence
1966
as Opening Title Sequence
1965
as Opening Title Sequence
1968
as Opening Title Sequence
1975
as Opening Title Sequence
1968
as Title Designer
1966
as Title Designer
1968
as Title Graphics
1968
as Opening Title Sequence
1969
as Opening Title Sequence
1970
as Opening Title Sequence
1976
as Opening Title Sequence
1963
as Storyboard Artist
1963
as Art Designer
1982
as Director
1971
as Producer
1971
as Director
2015
as Director
2010
as Director
1965
as Director
1963
as Writer
1962
as Director
1962
as Producer
1962
as Animation
1958
as Animation
1958
as Director
1993
as Production Design
1986
as Director
1962
as Director
1965
as Writer
1988
as Animation Director
1967
as Director
1977
as Production Supervisor
1962
as Writer
1982
as Producer
1988
as Director
1993
as Creator
2010
as Animation
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