1988Winner
Best Performance
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Richard Williams
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
March 19, 1933
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1976Nominee
Best Performance
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1975Nominee
Best Performance
The Return of the Pink Panther
Career Highlights
1990Highlight
Best Director
Dick Tracy
1993Highlight
Best Director
The Thief and the Cobbler
Video
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
The Return of the Pink Panther