Richard Williams
Born: 1933-03-19 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died: 2019-08-16
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2021
- Queen of the Universe ... (Sound)
2015
- Prologue ... (Animation)
2012
- Persistence of Vision as Himself
2010
- Circus Drawings ... (Director)
2009
- Waking Sleeping Beauty as Self (archive footage)
2002
1993
- The Thief and the Cobbler ... (Animation)
1990
- Dick Tracy ... (Animation Director)
1989
- Tummy Trouble as Droopy Dog (voice)
- It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story as Self
1988
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit as Droopy (voice)
- Somethin's Cookin' ... (Director)
- I Drew Roger Rabbit as Himself
1986
- Roger Rabbit Screen Test ... (Director)
1982
- Ziggy's Gift as Crooked Santa (voice)
- Richard Williams and the Thief Who Never Gave Up as Himself
1977
- Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure! ... (Director)
1976
- Die Titelmacher as Self
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again ... (Opening Title Sequence)
1975
- The Return of the Pink Panther ... (Opening Title Sequence)
1971
- A Christmas Carol ... (Producer)
1970
- Every Home Should Have One ... (Opening Title Sequence)
1969
- Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? ... (Opening Title Sequence)
1968
- Sebastian ... (Opening Title Sequence)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade ... (Opening Title Sequence)
- Prudence and the Pill ... (Opening Title Sequence)
- Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush ... (Title Designer)
- 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia! ... (Title Graphics)
1967
- The Sailor and the Devil ... (Director)
1966
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ... (Opening Title Sequence)
- The Spy with a Cold Nose ... (Title Designer)
1965
- What's New Pussycat? ... (Opening Title Sequence)
- The Liquidator ... (Opening Title Sequence)
- The Dermis Probe ... (Director)
1963
- The Apple ... (Art Designer)
- The Ever-Changing Motor Car ... (Writer)
1962
- Love Me, Love Me, Love Me. ... (Director)
- A Lecture on Man ... (Director)
1958
- The Little Island ... (Director)
- The Wardrobe ... (Director)