Richard Williams
Directing
1933-03-19 · Toronto, 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.
Filmography
Lysistrata
2026 · Movie
Queen of the Universe
2021 · Series
Prologue
2015 · Movie
Persistence of Vision
2012 · Movie
Circus Drawings
2010 · Movie
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009 · Movie
The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
2002 · Movie
The Thief and the Cobbler
1993 · Movie
Dick Tracy
1990 · Movie
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
1989 · Movie
Tummy Trouble
1989 · Movie
I Drew Roger Rabbit
1988 · Movie
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
1988 · Movie
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988 · Movie
Somethin's Cookin'
1988 · Movie
Roger Rabbit Screen Test
1986 · Movie
Ziggy's Gift
1982 · Movie
Richard Williams and the Thief Who Never Gave Up
1982 · Movie
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
1977 · Movie
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976 · Movie
Die Titelmacher
1976 · Movie
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975 · Movie
A Christmas Carol
1971 · Movie
Every Home Should Have One
1970 · Movie
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
1969 · Movie
Prudence and the Pill
1968 · Movie
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968 · Movie
30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!
1968 · Movie
Sebastian
1968 · Movie
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
1968 · Movie
The Sailor and the Devil
1967 · Movie
The Spy with a Cold Nose
1966 · Movie
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1966 · Movie
The Liquidator
1965 · Movie
The Dermis Probe
1965 · Movie
What's New Pussycat?
1965 · Movie
The Ever-Changing Motor Car
1963 · Movie
The Apple
1963 · Movie
Love Me, Love Me, Love Me.
1962 · Movie
A Lecture on Man
1962 · Movie
The Little Island
1958 · Movie
The Wardrobe
1958 · Movie