Richard Williams
- Directing
- March 19, 1933 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- August 16, 2019
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
Filmography
- Lysistrata · Kalonike (Voice), Director
- Queen of the Universe · Sound
- Prologue · Animation, Director
- Persistence of Vision · Self
- Circus Drawings · Director, Animation
- Waking Sleeping Beauty · Self
- The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau · Self
- The Thief and the Cobbler · Director, Animation
- Dick Tracy · Animation Director
- It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story · Self
- Tummy Trouble · Droopy Dog (Voice)
- I Drew Roger Rabbit · Self
- Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town · Self
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit · Droopy (Voice), Animation Director
- Somethin's Cookin' · Director
- Roger Rabbit Screen Test · Director
- Ziggy's Gift · Crooked Santa (Voice), Director
- Richard Williams and the Thief Who Never Gave Up · Self
- Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure · Director, Production Supervisor
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again · Opening Title Sequence
- Die Titelmacher · Self
- The Return of the Pink Panther · Opening Title Sequence
- A Christmas Carol · Producer, Director
- Every Home Should Have One · Opening Title Sequence
- Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? · Opening Title Sequence
- Prudence and the Pill · Opening Title Sequence
- The Charge of the Light Brigade · Opening Title Sequence
- 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia! · Title Graphics
- Sebastian · Opening Title Sequence
- Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush · Title Designer
- The Sailor and the Devil · Director
- The Spy with a Cold Nose · Title Designer
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum · Opening Title Sequence
- The Liquidator · Opening Title Sequence
- The Dermis Probe · Director, Writer
- What's New Pussycat? · Opening Title Sequence
- The Ever-Changing Motor Car · Writer
- The Apple · Storyboard Artist, Art Designer
- Love Me, Love Me, Love Me. · Director, Producer
- A Lecture on Man · Director, Writer
- The Little Island · Director, Writer
- The Wardrobe · Director