Richard Williams Filmography

Born:: March 19, 1933 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation:: Art Director, Animator, Animation Director, Director, Producer, Intertitle Writer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Involved in film animation from the young age of 12, Richard Williams' international reputation as a true innovator grew so much that by 1990 he was voted "the Animator's Animator" by a poll in the London Times, and a commentator for the New York Times has called Williams "miles ahead of anyone in...Read More

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Eye of God

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Martha Plimpton, Kevin Anderson, Hal Holbrook, Nick Stahl, Richard Jenkins

Synopsis: Ainsley Dupree (Martha Plimpton) is a short-order cook at a diner in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, a country town in the middle of nowhere. Lonely and bored, Ainsley becomes pen pals with Jack Stillings (Kevin Anderson), who is currently serving time in prison. When Jack is released, he immediately asks Read More

1997
The Thief and the Cobbler

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jennifer Beals, Matthew Broderick, Donald Pleasence, Vincent Price, Jonathan Winters

Synopsis: Master animator Richard Williams (best known for his work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) created this visually dazzling full-length cartoon. Tack (voice of Matthew Broderick) is a shy and humble cobbler in love with the beautiful Princess Yum Yum (voice of Jennifer Beals). Tack gets his chance to Read More

1995
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Crew: Animation Director, Animator

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, Alan Tilvern

Synopsis: In Robert Zemeckis's trailblazing combination of animation and live-action, Hollywood's 1940s cartoon stars are a subjugated minority, living in the ghettolike "Toontown" where their movements are sharply monitored by the human power establishment. The Toons are permitted to perform in a Cotton Read More

6/22/88
Ziggy's Gift

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Cartoonist Tom Wilson's loveable, optimistic, funny-page favorite comes to life as never before in this hand-drawn holiday special featuring animation by Richard Williams, Eric Goldberg, and Tom Sito and featuring music by Grammy-award winning recording artists Harry Nilsson and Perry Botkin. As Read More

1983
Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure

Crew: Animator, Director

Actors: Didi Conn

Synopsis: This animated children's film tells the story of the two popular dolls who go off to find a pretty French doll who has been stolen by pirates. Many songs from popular children's composer Joe Raposo ensue, including: "I Look and What Do I See!," "No Girl's Toy," "Rag Dolly," "Poor Babette," "A Read More

1977
A Christmas Carol

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Alastair Sim, Michael Hordern, Melvyn Hayes, Joan Sims, Paul Whitsun-Jones

Synopsis: This well-animated version of Dickens' classic Christmas story stays quite faithful to its source as it chronicles the painful lesson learned by a bitter old miser whose money lust alienates him from humanity. His lesson comes in the form of ghostly intervention from a trio of spirits who force Read More

1971
Think Dirty

Crew: Animator, Intertitle Writer

Actors: Marty Feldman, Shelley Berman, Judy Cornwell, Julie Ege, Patrick Cargill

Synopsis: This offbeat comedy finds Teddy (Marty Feldman) as a television advertising man given a seemingly meaningless project. Slated to make frozen porridge commercials, he comes up with the idea to find an erotic Goldilocks to sell the product. Soon a nationwide search is launched for the female Read More

1970
The Charge of the Light Brigade

Crew: Animator

Actors: Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett

Synopsis: During the ill-fated charge of British troops at Balaclava in the Crimean War, loyal soldiers who blindly followed orders were led to certain death. This is the fifth time the story has been told on film, but the actual event is an afterthought to the main plot. Snobbish aristocrats and Read More

1968