Richard Williams

Birthday: 1933-03-19
Deathday: 2019-08-16
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male

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.

Credits

Year Title
2015-06-01 Prologue
2010-10-01 Circus Drawings
1993-09-23 The Thief and the Cobbler
1986-11-02 Roger Rabbit Screen Test
1982-12-01 Ziggy's Gift
1977-04-01 Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
1971-12-21 A Christmas Carol
1967-07-10 The Sailor and the Devil
1965-09-08 The Dermis Probe
1962-07-14 Love Me, Love Me, Love Me.
1962-04-01 A Lecture on Man
1958-07-31 The Little Island
1958-01-01 The Wardrobe