Career
His longest association was with Chuck Jones at Warner Brothers Cartoons and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation/Visual Arts. He also worked at Hanna-Barbera and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.
Notably, Thompson worked as a 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".
