Richard Williams

Richard Edmund Williams 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-- for which he won two Academy Awards-- and as the director of his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler. His work on the short film A Christmas Carol earned him his first Academy Award. He was also a film title sequence designer and animator.