From the July 1998 Peg-Board
Animation veteran RICHARD THOMPSON suffered a fatal heart attack June 12 at the Motion Picture Home. He was 83. Dick began his career as an apprentice animator in 1938 in the Chuck Jones unit at Schlesinger studio. Serving in the Army Air Corps First Motion Picture Unit under Major Rudy Ising during World War II, Dick returned to Warners and the Jones unit, where he worked until his retirement. Among a large and loving family he leaves daughter Nancy Katona, a son Scott Thompson, and granddaughters Ashley Rose and Dakota Roxann.
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