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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1933-03-19 (92 years old)

Place of Birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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.

Known For

Acting

2012

2009

Waking Sleeping Beauty as Self (archive footage)

2002

1989

Roger Rabbit: Tummy Trouble as Droopy Dog (voice)

1988

Who Framed Roger Rabbit as Droopy (voice)

1982

Ziggy's Gift as Crooked Santa (voice)

1976

Directing

2015

Prologue as Director

2010

Circus Drawings as Director

1986

1982

Ziggy's Gift as Director

1971

A Christmas Carol as Director

1967

1965

The Dermis Probe as Director

1962

A Lecture on Man as Director

1958

The Little Island as Director
The Wardrobe as Director

Writing

1993

The Thief and the Cobbler as Original Story

1965

1962

1958

Visual Effects

2015

Prologue as Animation

1993

1990

Dick Tracy as Animation Director

1988

Who Framed Roger Rabbit as Animation Director

1958

The Little Island as Animation

Production

1982

Ziggy's Gift as Producer

1976

1971

A Christmas Carol as Producer

Art

1993

The Thief and the Cobbler as Production Design

1976

The Pink Panther Strikes Again as Opening Title Sequence

1975

The Return of the Pink Panther as Opening Title Sequence

1970

Every Home Should Have One as Opening Title Sequence

1968

Sebastian as Opening Title Sequence
Prudence and the Pill as Opening Title Sequence
The Charge of the Light Brigade as Opening Title Sequence

1966

The Spy with a Cold Nose as Title Designer

1965

The Liquidator as Opening Title Sequence
What's New Pussycat? as Opening Title Sequence

1963

The Apple as Storyboard Artist
The Apple as Art Designer

Crew

1968

Sound