Richard Williams

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1933-03-19

Deathday 2019-08-16 (86 years old)

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.

Known For

Director

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

1958
The Wardrobe

as Director

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
The Charge of the Light Brigade

as Opening Title Sequence

1968
Sebastian

as Opening Title Sequence

1968
Prudence and the Pill

as Opening Title Sequence

1966
The Spy with a Cold Nose

as Title Designer

1965
What's New Pussycat?

as Opening Title Sequence

1965
The Liquidator

as Opening Title Sequence

1963
The Apple

as Storyboard Artist

1963
The Apple

as Art Designer

Actor

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

Writer

1993
1993
The Thief and the Cobbler

as Original Story

1965
1962
1958

Producer

1977
1971
A Christmas Carol

as Producer

Crew

1968

Sound