Richard Williams

Known for DirectingBorn 1933-03-19Died 2019-08-16Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Persistence of Vision

Richard Williams and the Thief Who Never Gave Up

Somethin's Cookin'

The Sailor and the Devil

Love Me, Love Me, Love Me.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Waking Sleeping Beauty

The Thief and the Cobbler

The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau

A Christmas Carol

I Drew Roger Rabbit

Roger Rabbit Screen Test

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure

The Dermis Probe

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Tummy Trouble

The Return of the Pink Panther

Prologue

The Little Island

A Lecture on Man

Sebastian

Ziggy's Gift

Dick Tracy

The Liquidator

Circus Drawings

The Charge of the Light Brigade

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

What's New Pussycat?

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

Prudence and the Pill

30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!

The Apple

Every Home Should Have One

Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

Queen of the Universe

The Spy with a Cold Nose

It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story

Die Titelmacher

The Ever-Changing Motor Car

The Wardrobe

Lysistrata