Richard Williams
Director
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
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
as Droopy (voice) 1988
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Self (archive footage) 2009
Tummy Trouble
as Droopy Dog (voice) 1989
Ziggy's Gift
as Crooked Santa (voice) 1982
Persistence of Vision
as Himself 2012
Richard Williams and the Thief Who Never Gave Up
as Himself 1982
Die Titelmacher
as Self 1976
The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
as self 2002
I Drew Roger Rabbit
as Himself 1988