Joe Ranft

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1960-03-13 (45 years old)

Deathday

2005-08-16

Place of Birth

Pasadena, California, USA

Joe Ranft

Biography

Joseph Henry Ranft (March 13, 1960 – August 16, 2005) was an American screenwriter, animator, storyboard artist and voice actor, who worked for Pixar Animation Studios and Disney at Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disney Television Animation. His younger brother Jerome Ranft is a sculptor who also worked on several Pixar films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe Ranft, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

2003

Finding Nemo

as Jacques (voice)

2001

Monsters, Inc.

as Additional Voices (voice)

2006

The Inspiration for 'Cars'

as Self - Co-director

1998

A Bug's Life

as Heimlich / Additional Voices (voice)

1993

The Nightmare Before Christmas

as Igor (voice) (uncredited)

2002

2007

The Pixar Story

as Self - Heimlich/ Lenny

2009

Waking Sleeping Beauty

as Self (archive footage)

2006

Cars

as Red / Peterbilt (voice)

1983

Hansel and Gretel

as Puppeteer

1987

The Brave Little Toaster

as Elmo St. Peters (voice)

1999

Toy Story 2

as Wheezy (voice)

2004

The Incredibles

as Additional Voices (voice)

2001

Monkeybone

as Streetsquash Rabbit (voice)

1995

Toy Story

as Lenny the Binoculars (voice)

2003

Elf

as Store Owner (uncredited)

1998

A Night at the Roxbury

as Hottie Dancer

Production

2006

Cars

as Screenplay

1990

2005

Corpse Bride

as Executive Producer

1991

Drop Dead Fred

as Title Designer

2006

Mater and the Ghostlight

as Original Story

1979

Good Humor

as Animation

1979

Good Humor

as Director

1979

Good Humor

as Writer

1995

Toy Story

as Story Supervisor

1987

1987

1998

A Bug's Life

as Story

2006

Cars

as Original Story

2006

Cars

as Script Supervisor

1989

The Little Mermaid

as Storyboard

1997

Geri's Game

as Thanks

2001

Monsters, Inc.

as Additional Writing

1994

2006

Cars

as Co-Director

1999

Toy Story 2

as Story Supervisor

2006

Cars

as In Memory Of

1988

Winter

as Thanks

1990

Next Door

as Thanks

1989

Palm Springs

as Thanks

1988

1987

The Brave Little Toaster

as Storyboard Artist

2005

Corpse Bride

as In Memory Of

1990

The Rescuers Down Under

as Story Supervisor

-

Swabbies

as Writer

1995

Toy Story

as Original Story

2009

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