Richard Williams

Director · 1933–2019 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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.

Directed 15

2020s

2026
Lysistrata
Director

2010s

2015
Prologue
Director
2010
Circus Drawings
Director

1990s

1993
The Thief and the Cobbler
Director
67

1980s

1988
Somethin's Cookin'
Director
1986
Roger Rabbit Screen Test
Director
1982
Ziggy's Gift
Director

1970s

1977
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
Director
1971
A Christmas Carol
Director

1960s

1967
The Sailor and the Devil
Director
1965
The Dermis Probe
Director
1962
Love Me, Love Me, Love Me.
Director
A Lecture on Man
Director

1950s

1958
The Little Island
Director
The Wardrobe
Director

Art department 14

1990s

1993
The Thief and the Cobbler
Production Design
67

1970s

1976
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Opening Title Sequence
69
1975
The Return of the Pink Panther
Opening Title Sequence
70
1970
Every Home Should Have One
Opening Title Sequence

1960s

1969
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
Opening Title Sequence
1968
Prudence and the Pill
Opening Title Sequence
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Opening Title Sequence
65
Sebastian
Opening Title Sequence
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
Title Designer
1966
The Spy with a Cold Nose
Title Designer
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Opening Title Sequence
70
1965
The Liquidator
Opening Title Sequence
What's New Pussycat?
Opening Title Sequence
51
1963
The Apple
Art Designer, Storyboard Artist