{"id":68485,"date":"2019-08-19T11:24:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T11:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=68485"},"modified":"2019-08-19T11:24:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T11:24:28","slug":"roger-rabbit-creator-richard-williams-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/roger-rabbit-creator-richard-williams-dies-at-86\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Roger Rabbit\u2019 creator Richard Williams dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three-time Oscar winner animator Richard Williams has passed away at the age of 86.Best known for his work as the animation director on the 1988 live-action and animated film \u2018Who Framed Roger Rabbit\u2019, Williams died on Friday at his Bristol home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe 86-year-old triple Oscar and triple BAFTA winner, who was born in Toronto, Canada, and moved to Britain in the 1950s, died at his home in Bristol on Friday,\u201d his family announced in a statement to The Guardian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Williams created many legendary characters like Roger and Jessica Rabbit, and animated the title sequences for the 1970s classics \u2018The Return Of The Pink Panther\u2019 and \u2018The Pink Panther Strikes Again\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made his debut in 1958 with \u2018The Little Island\u2019 and won a BAFTA. He received his first Oscar for his animated adaptation of Charles Dickens \u2018A Christmas Carol\u2019 in 1971.Williams won his second and third Oscars for \u2018Who Framed Roger Rabbit\u2019 and animated short \u2018Prologue\u2019, respectively.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time Oscar winner animator Richard Williams has passed away at the age of 86.Best known for his work as the animation director on the 1988 live-action and animated film \u2018Who Framed Roger Rabbit\u2019, Williams died on Friday at his Bristol home. \u201cThe 86-year-old triple Oscar and triple BAFTA winner, who was born in Toronto, Canada, [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68487,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68485\/revisions\/68487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}