FILM DIRECTOR

Richard Williams

1933 - 2019

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Richard Edmund Williams (né Lane; 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 Cobbler (1993). His work on the short film A Christmas Carol (1971) earned him his first Academy Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Williams has received more than 71,446 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Richard Williams is the 1,057th most popular film director (down from 644th in 2019), the 360th most popular biography from Canada (down from 209th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Canadian Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 71k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Richard Williams ranks 1,057 out of 2,041. Before him are Ted Wilde, Richard Dembo, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Zalman King, John Seale, and Kihachi Okamoto. After him are Safi Faye, Cameron Crowe, Nina Companeez, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Frank Beyer, and Gunnar Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Richard Williams ranks 358. Before him are Reiner Kunze, Imants Ziedonis, Leonid Kharitonov, Basdeo Panday, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, and Renée Colliard. After him are Mike Larrabee, Akira Endo, May Britt, Harve Presnell, Gabriel Aresti, and Borislav Ivkov. Among people deceased in 2019, Richard Williams ranks 333. Before him are Dimitar Dobrev, Norma Croker, Pedro Morales, Beth Carvalho, Richard Lugar, and Sulli. After him are Mary Oliver, Egisto Pandolfini, Inger Berggren, Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Zlatko Škorić, and Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Richard Williams ranks 360 out of 1,622. Before him are A. J. Cook (1978), R. B. Bennett (1870), Edward Belcher (1799), Howie Mandel (1955), Duncan McNaughton (1910), and Guy Lafleur (1951). After him are Heather Menzies (1949), Garth Hudson (1937), Gordon Thomson (1945), Stu Hart (1915), Gordon Neufeld (1947), and Michel Tremblay (1942).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Canada

Among film directors born in Canada, Richard Williams ranks 17. Before him are Allan Dwan (1885), Mark Robson (1913), Paul Haggis (1953), Michel Brault (1928), Mary Harron (1953), and Jean-Marc Vallée (1963). After him are David Furnish (1962), Shawn Levy (1968), Sidney Olcott (1872), Robert Lepage (1957), Roger Avary (1965), and Elmer Clifton (1890).

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