Richard Williams

Directing

Born: 1933-03-19
Died: 2019-08-16
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.3

Also Known As

Richard Edmund 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.

Awards & Nominations5 won · 3 nominated

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

Prologue

2016
🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1989
🏆 Won

Special Achievement Academy Award

1989
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1989
🏆 Won

Winsor McCay Award

1984
🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

A Christmas Carol

1973
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

A Christmas Carol

1973
🏆 Won

BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film

The Little Island

1959

Acting9 titles

Directing14 titles

Writing4 titles

Production5 titles

Sound1 title

Art14 titles

Visual Effects7 titles

Crew2 titles