Richard Williams

Director

Born: March 19, 1933 (86 years old)

Died: August 16, 2019

Place of birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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.

Filmography (22)

• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, ★ 7.5)
• Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009, ★ 7.2)
• Tummy Trouble (1989, ★ 6.7)
• The Thief and the Cobbler (1993, ★ 7.1)
• A Christmas Carol (1971, ★ 7.2)
• Ziggy's Gift (1982, ★ 6.1)
• Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977, ★ 6.9)
• The Little Island (1958, ★ 6.6)
• Prologue (2015, ★ 6.3)
• Dick Tracy (1990, ★ 6.1)
• Sebastian (1968, ★ 6.1)
• Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968, ★ 5.6)
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966, ★ 6)
• The Liquidator (1965, ★ 6.2)
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976, ★ 6.9)
• The Return of the Pink Panther (1975, ★ 6.8)
• Prudence and the Pill (1968, ★ 5.4)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968, ★ 6.1)
• What's New Pussycat? (1965, ★ 6)
• Circus Drawings (2010, ★ 5.8)
• Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969, ★ 4.2)
• Every Home Should Have One (1970, ★ 4.8)