Richard Williams
Known for: Directing
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
Film
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Droopy (voice)
1988
Film
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Self (archive footage)
2009
Film
Tummy Trouble
Droopy Dog (voice)
1989
Film
Persistence of Vision
Himself
2012
Film
Ziggy's Gift
Crooked Santa (voice)
1982
Lysistrata
Kalonike (voice)
2026
Film
Richard Williams and the Thief Who Never Gave Up
Himself
1982
Film
The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
self
2002
Film
I Drew Roger Rabbit
Himself
1988
Film
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
Self
1989
Die Titelmacher
Self
1976