Richard_Thompson_(animator)

Richard Thompson (animator)

Richard Thompson (animator)

American animator

For other people named Richard Thompson, see Richard Thompson (disambiguation).

Richard Thompson (26 August 1914 – 12 June 1998) was an American animator who worked at several animated cartoon departments over a career of four decades.

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Career

Thompson's longest association was with Chuck Jones at Warner Bros. Cartoons and MGM Animation/Visual Arts. Notably, he was an animator on Chuck Jones' Road Runner cartoons. He also worked at Hanna-Barbera and DePatie–Freleng Enterprises. He animated for Tom and Jerry cartoons; for one Peanuts animated special, He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown; and for two Babar TV specials by Mendelson-Melendez Productions, The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant and Babar Comes to America.

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