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Richard Williams

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Editor, Additional Credits
Born March 19, 1933Died August 16, 2019 (86 years)
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
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  • The Thief and the Cobbler
  • A Christmas Carol
  • Prologue
  • Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
  • Man from Atlantis
  • Tummy Trouble

Filmography

2012
Mokey's Show (TV Series) · as Knight Blood Mokey
1993
The Thief and the Cobbler · as Laughing Brigand
1989
Tummy Trouble · as Droopy Dog (voice)
1988
Who Framed Roger Rabbit · as Droopy (voice)
1978
The South Bank Show (TV Series) · as Director
1977
Man from Atlantis (TV Series) · as Cetacean Crew
1969

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