Richard Williams

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Canadian Cartoonist Richard Williams was born Richard Edmund Williams on 19th March, 1933 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and passed away on 16th Aug 2019 Bristol, England, UK aged 86. He is most remembered for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Thief and the Cobbler. His zodiac sign is Pisces.

Richard Williams is a member of the following lists: Best Visual Effects Academy Award winners, 1933 births and Canadian film directors.

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First Name	Richard
Middle Name	Edmund
Last Name	Williams
Full Name at Birth	Richard Edmund Williams
Alternative Name	Richard Edmund Williams, Richard Williams
Birthday	19th March, 1933
Birthplace	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died	16th August, 2019
Place of Death	Bristol, England, UK
Zodiac Sign	Pisces
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation Text	Animator, animation director, writer, illustrator, animation teacher
Occupation	Cartoonist
Claim to Fame	Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Thief and the Cobbler
Year(s) Active	1957–present (animation career), 1957–2019 (animation career)

Richard Edmund Williams (March 19, 1933 – August 16, 2019) was a Canadian-British animator, voice actor, and painter. A three-time Academy Award winner, he is best known as the animation director on Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) -- for which he won two Academy Awards -- and as the director of his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler (1993). His work on the short film A Christmas Carol (1971) earned him his first Academy Award. He was also a film title sequence designer and animator. Other works in this field include the title sequences for 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 and the intros of the eponymous cartoon feline for two of the later Pink Panther films. In 2002 he published The Animator's Survival Kit, an authoritative manual of animation methods and techniques, which has since been turned into a 16-DVD box set as well as an iOS app. From 2008 he worked as artist in residence at Aardman Animations in Bristol, and in 2015 he received both Oscar and BAFTA nominations in the best animated short category for his short film Prologue.

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