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Richard Lester "Dick" Thompson (August 26, 1914June 12, 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 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He also worked at Hanna-Barbera Productions and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.

Notably, Thompson animated Merrie Melodies' 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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