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Richard Thompson (animator)

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Name
  
Richard Thompson

Role
  
Animator


Died
  
June 12, 1998

Movies
  
Woolen Under Where

Similar People
  
Chuck Jones, Mel Blanc, David H DePatie

Richard "Dick" Thompson (26 August 1914 – 12 June 1998) was an American animator who worked at several animated cartoon departments over a career of four decades. His longest association was with Chuck Jones at Warner Bros. Cartoons and MGM Animation/Visual Arts. He also worked at Hanna-Barbera and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. Notably, Thompson worked as an animator on Chuck Jones' Road Runner cartoons: "In one of the most often cited discussions of the Road Runner cartoons, Richard Thompson suggests a way to think about this unusual characteristic when he describes how "Road Runner films rank among the most austerely pared-down works of modern art.

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