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FILM DIRECTOR

Richard Williams

1933 - 2019

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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 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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  • 66k

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  • 50.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Richard Williams ranks 645 out of 1,581Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Richard Williams ranks 217Before 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 204Before 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.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Richard Williams ranks 209 out of 1,350Before 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).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Canada

Among film directors born in Canada, Richard Williams ranks 14Before 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).

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