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The Thief and the Cobbler is an animated fantasy film co-written and directed by Richard Williams, [4] who intended it to be his magnum opus and a milestone in the animated medium. Originally devised in the 1960s, the film was in and out of production for nearly three decades due to independent funding and ambitiously complex animation.
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). [1]
Persistence of Vision is a 2012 documentary film based on animator Richard Williams' ill-fated attempts to produce his film The Thief and the Cobbler. Directed by Kevin Schreck, its tagline is "the untold story of the greatest animated film never made". The film premiered in Canada on 4 October 2012 at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
Arabian Nights, English title of Il fiore delle mille e una notte, an Italian film; Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights, a 1994 animated telefilm based on The Book of One Thousand and One Nights; Arabian Knight, alternate title of The Thief and the Cobbler, a 1995 animated film; Arabian Nights, a Portuguese film
The Thief and the Cobbler: 1993: 29: Work began in 1964 and was released in an unfinished state in 1993. [84] Tiefland: 1954: 4: Script work began in 1934, shooting lasted from 1940 to 1944, and the film was finally shown in 1954. [85] The Tragedy of Man: 2011: 23
He was also the narrator in the original version (and recobbled cut) of Richard Williams' unfinished animated project, The Thief and the Cobbler (1993). At the age of 80 Felix Aylmer played a villain in an episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) entitled " It's Supposed to be Thicker than Water ".
His stage work included many appearances with Dublin's Abbey Theatre, and also work with the National Theatre in London. [3] [4]Outside of Ireland, he is probably best known for his minor role as General Willard in Star Wars (1977) (named after George Lucas's friend and frequent collaborator Willard Huyck), but he is also remembered in horror roles such as the sceptical Inspector Mulrooney in ...
Series Title Description Feature film: Androcles: Modern Family writer Stephen Lloyd along with Jonathan Ehrlich (who would go to work on Hi Opie!) and Ann Carli of Crossroads and Fast Food Nation pitched an idea for an animated film version of the famous Roman folktale of Androcles with new songs by Michael Jackson for Warner Bros., but due to production problems going on at Warner Bros ...