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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 ...
Possibly the high point of his career was as animation director on Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), for which Williams won two Academy Awards: one for Best Visual Effects and the other for animation direction and (CGI) creation of cartoon characters.
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Aug 17, 2019 · By RAPHAEL SATTER. Published 8:47 AM PDT, August 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.
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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. His passing has prompted a torrent of tributes to his work in all...
Aug 17, 2019 · August 17, 2019 8:20am. Nick Beek-Sanders. 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’...
Aug 18, 2019 · Richard Williams, a groundbreaking animation director who won two Academy Awards for “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” died on Friday at his home in Bristol, England. He was 86. His death was...
Aug 20, 2019 · Legendary animator Richard Williams died Friday, August 16, 2019, at the age of 86. He’s probably best known for being the animation director on 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit; that film...
