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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 ...
Aug 19, 2019 · He was only drawn back to animation in his early 20s, because — as he told the BBC — “my paintings were trying to move.” In the 1950s, by then disenchanted by Disney’s “sentimentality,” Williams...
In 1955, aged 22, Williams moved to England and joined fellow Canadian George Dunning's company T.V. Cartoons Ltd., working primarily on television commercials. At the same time, Williams created his first animated short feature, The Little Island (1958), which won him the 1959 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film. Though a critical success it ...
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Born in Toronto in 1933, he saw Disney’s first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), aged five. Unlike most children, Williams understood the film was made out of drawings; his mother was a commercial illustrator. He made his first animation aged 12.
Feb 20, 2002 · Ten volumes of a hundred pages each, which I did for Alex [Richard's son] years ago when he got a job in Germany as an animator. And then that's boiled down into three hundred pages which I used for the classes.
Aug 17, 2019 · Here is the first animation he produced as a 12-year-old in 1945: Richard Williams animated for 74 years. Here is the first animation that he ever made, age 12. pic.twitter.com/XKWoOe6ls0. —...
Aug 20, 2019 · Before she joined Vox in 2014, she was the first TV editor of the A.V. Club. Legendary animator Richard Williams died Friday, August 16, 2019, at the age of 86. He’s probably best known for...
