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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 ...
Richard Williams. Animation Department: Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The son of commercial artists, Richard Williams studied at the Ontario College of Art and first worked in animation for Disney Studios in Burbank.
Aug 19, 2019 · The animator and director Richard Williams died on Friday at his home in Bristol, U.K, after a battle with cancer. He was 86.
Richard Williams obituary: a half-hidden animation master. The Canadian-born animator brought us Roger Rabbit, the Cresta Bear and animation’s great lost film. 19 March 1933–16 August 2019.
Aug 17, 2019 · LONDON (AP) — Richard Williams, a Canadian-British animator whose work on the bouncing cartoon bunny in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” helped blur the boundaries between the animated world and our own, has died. He was 86 years old.
Aug 17, 2019 · Richard Williams, a Canadian-British animator whose work on the bouncing cartoon bunny in Who Framed Roger Rabbit helped blur the boundaries between the animated world and our own, has died...
Aug 17, 2019 · Richard Williams, the three-time Oscar- and BAFTA-winning animator famed for his work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, has died. He was 86. Williams’ family announced that he died Friday at...
Aug 17, 2019 · Legendary animator Richard Williams, who brought Toontown to life as the director of animation for Robert Zemeckis’ 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, has died at the age of 86, Variety...
Aug 29, 2019 · Richard Williams was an Oscar -winning animation director best known for his work on the 1988 hit Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a film that triggered the revival of animation as a viable format for...
A Canadian animator whose debut short The Little Island (1958) won a BAFTA for Best Animated Film, Williams was most memorably served as animation director on Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) for which he received BAFTAs for Visual Effects and a Special Award for Craft.
