1933 - 2019
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 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 65,896 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Richard Williams is the 645th most popular film director (up from 985th in 2019), the 209th most popular biography from Canada (up from 356th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Canadian Film Director.
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Among film directors, Richard Williams ranks 645 out of 1,581. Before him are Steno, Ivan Pyryev, Fatih Akin, Henning Carlsen, Alberto Cavalcanti, and Todd Phillips. After him are Frances Marion, J. Stuart Blackton, John Madden, Andrew Blake, James Whale, and Nancy Meyers.
1917 - 1988
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 639
1901 - 1968
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 640
1973 - Present
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 641
1927 - 2014
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 642
1897 - 1982
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 643
1970 - Present
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 644
1933 - 2019
HPI: 50.90
Rank: 645
1888 - 1973
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 646
1875 - 1941
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 647
1949 - Present
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 648
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 649
1889 - 1957
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 650
1949 - Present
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 651
Among people born in 1933, Richard Williams ranks 217. Before him are Vera Krepkina, Ilya Kabakov, Josef Kadraba, Nicola Pietrangeli, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, and Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa. After him are Diane Disney Miller, Chelo Alonso, Petra Schürmann, Ivan Passer, Raffaele Farina, and John Aniston. Among people deceased in 2019, Richard Williams ranks 204. Before him are Rudi Gutendorf, Jacques Dupont, Josef Kadraba, Carol Lynley, Fernando J. Corbató, and Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino. After him are Diahann Carroll, Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Andrew G. Vajna, Luciano De Crescenzo, Chelo Alonso, and Dick Miller.
1933 - 2023
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 211
1933 - 2023
HPI: 51.08
Rank: 212
1933 - 2019
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 213
1933 - Present
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 214
1933 - 2003
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 215
1933 - Present
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 216
1933 - 2019
HPI: 50.90
Rank: 217
1933 - 2013
HPI: 50.88
Rank: 218
1933 - 2019
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 219
1933 - 2010
HPI: 50.70
Rank: 220
1933 - 2020
HPI: 50.66
Rank: 221
1933 - Present
HPI: 50.63
Rank: 222
1933 - 2022
HPI: 50.59
Rank: 223
1926 - 2019
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 198
1928 - 2019
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 199
1933 - 2019
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 200
1942 - 2019
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 201
1926 - 2019
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 202
1936 - 2019
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 203
1933 - 2019
HPI: 50.90
Rank: 204
1935 - 2019
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 205
1938 - 2019
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 206
1944 - 2019
HPI: 50.78
Rank: 207
1928 - 2019
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 208
1933 - 2019
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 209
1928 - 2019
HPI: 50.72
Rank: 210
Among people born in Canada, Richard Williams ranks 209 out of 1,350. Before him are Mary Simon (1947), Nathan Fillion (1971), Ethel Smith (1907), Naomi Klein (1970), Raymond Massey (1896), and John van 't Schip (1963). After him are Terry Fox (1958), Hume Cronyn (1911), Marc Singer (1948), Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1907), John Draper (1943), and Florence Lawrence (1886).
1947 - Present
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 203
1971 - Present
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 204
1907 - 1979
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 205
1970 - Present
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 206
1896 - 1983
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 207
1963 - Present
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 208
1933 - 2019
HPI: 50.90
Rank: 209
1958 - 1981
HPI: 50.89
Rank: 210
1911 - 2003
HPI: 50.89
Rank: 211
1948 - Present
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 212
1907 - 1964
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 213
1943 - Present
HPI: 50.78
Rank: 214
1886 - 1938
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 215
Among film directors born in Canada, Richard Williams ranks 14. Before him are Arthur Hiller (1923), Roger Spottiswoode (1945), Jean-Marc Vallée (1963), Ted Kotcheff (1931), Paul Haggis (1953), and Allan Dwan (1885). After him are Mark Robson (1913), Shawn Levy (1968), Jason Reitman (1977), Robert Lepage (1957), Mary Harron (1953), and Roger Avary (1965).
1923 - 2016
HPI: 53.41
Rank: 8
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 9
1963 - 2021
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 10
1931 - Present
HPI: 51.69
Rank: 11
1953 - Present
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 12
1885 - 1981
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 13
1933 - 2019
HPI: 50.90
Rank: 14
1913 - 1978
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 15
1968 - Present
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 16
1977 - Present
HPI: 44.56
Rank: 17
1957 - Present
HPI: 44.50
Rank: 18
1953 - Present
HPI: 43.92
Rank: 19
1965 - Present
HPI: 42.67
Rank: 20