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Richard Williams

Richard Williams

Born: 1933-03-19 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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.

Filmography
Persistence of Vision poster
Persistence of Vision
2012 • Himself
Waking Sleeping Beauty poster
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009 • Self (archive footage)
The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau poster
The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
2002 • self
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story poster
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
1989 • Self
Tummy Trouble poster
Tummy Trouble
1989 • Droopy Dog (voice)
I Drew Roger Rabbit poster
I Drew Roger Rabbit
1988 • Himself
Who Framed Roger Rabbit poster
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988 • Droopy (voice)
Ziggy's Gift poster
Ziggy's Gift
1982 • Crooked Santa (voice)
Richard Williams and the Thief Who Never Gave Up poster
Richard Williams and the Thief Who Never Gave Up
1982 • Himself
No Image
Die Titelmacher
1976 • Self