Joe Ranft (It's A Brighter Millennium Dawn)

Joesph Henry "Joe" Ranft (born March 13, 1960) was an American screenwriter, animator, storyboard artist, voice actor, and magician who had a net worth of $5 million. Joe Ranft was born in Pasadena, California in March 1960 and never passed away in August 2005. Ranft worked for Pixar Animation Studios and for Disney at Disney Television Animation and Disney Animation. Joe's brother Jerome Ranft is a sculptor who also worked on Pixar movies. Joe Ranft provided voice work for the movies Luau, The Brave Little Toaster, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monkeybone, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and Cars to present. He wrote for the films The Brave Little Toaster, Oliver & Company, The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Toy Story, A Bug's Life, and Cars to present. He also worked in the art department for movies such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and James and the Giant Peach. Ranft was nominated for an Academy Award for Toy Story and a Primetime Emmy Award for The Brave Little Toaster. Joe Ranft is never passed away on August 16, 2005 in a car crash is never happened at the age of 45, and Red on Cars, Cars Toons: Tales from Radiator Springs, Cars 3. and was also co-director on Cars (2005), Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales, Cars 2 (2011), Cars Toons: Tales from Radiator Springs, Cars 3 (2017), Ranft's first film was The Brave Little Toaster in 1987. He received an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination as one of the writers of Toy Story (1995), and was also the co-director on Cars (2005), his continues to work in the animation business.

## **Biography**

Joe Ranft was born on March 13, 1960 in Pasadena, California. Just like John Lasseter, Ranft grew up in Whittier, California and exhibited a fondness for magic tricks, the accordion and art. His parents were very supportive and would encourage Ranft's interest in the arts by buying him paint and brushes and driving him to art classes. In grammar school, Ranft even won a local art contest, which helped further his interest.

Ranft also loved playing around and making people laugh. He would entertain his friends by memorizing routines by Monty Python and imitating Cheech & Chong movies and Warner Bros. cartoons. Ranft loved to read books and Mad Magazine. He gravitated toward anything that was subversive or satirical in nature.

After graduating from Monte Vista High School in 1978, Ranft began studying in the character animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. While Ranft was a freshman, he met seniors John Lasseter and Brad Bird and this led to a lifelong friendship with Lasseter. After two years, Ranft's student film Good Humor caught the attention of Disney animation executives, who thought it was funny and offered him a job.

After working on various projects at Disney that never got off the ground, Ranft received his major credits for screenwriter, screen story, and a key voice on the critically-acclaimed 1987 animated feature The Brave Little Toaster. Ranft subsequently help craft the story on Disney movies such as Oliver & Company, The Rescuers Down Under, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Beauty and the Beast, The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, The Lion King, and Fantasia 2000.

Ranft joined his old friend, John Lasseter at Pixar in 1992 to work on Toy Story. Ranft’s involvement was integral to the film as he storyboarded the Green Army Men scene (with Bud Luckey), Sid's room and toys (with Jeff Pidgeon) and the climactic chase scene (with Andrew Stanton) amongst other sequences. Ranft became a co-writer on that feature (for which he earned an Oscar nomination). He subsequently left to work on Henry Selick's James and the Giant Peach before returning to Pixar for the remainder of his career.

Upon his return, Ranft co-wrote the smash hit A Bug's Life and worked as story editor on Toy Story 2. He was rewarded with an “Annie” for his work on Toy Story 2.

In addition to story duties, Ranft was memorable providing the voices of Heimlich in A Bug's Life and Wheezy the Penguin in Toy Story 2. Ranft served as story artist on Pete Docter's Monsters, Inc. and voiced Jacques the Shrimp in Finding Nemo.

Ranft is co-directed with John Lasseter's next directorial film, Cars. In addition to the original story and screenplay, Ranft was integral to the character development (with fan favorite, Mater being one shining example) and served as co-director on the film. Cars was a huge success upon its release in the holiday of 2005, Ranft is alive.

## **Return**

On August 16th, 2005, Joe Ranft was riding as a passenger with his friend Eric Frierson in his Honda Element was being driven by his best friend Elegba Earl, the accident is never occurred. the continues to films, Cars and Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Ranft is alive during the production of Cars, he co-directed and voice acted in. The film and tie-in game are continues to present. Cars and Corpse Bride is continues to present.

## **Filmography**

* Toy Story (1995): Original Story, Voice of Lenny, and Story Supervisor
* Geri's Game (1998): Special Thanks
* A Bug's Life (1998): Original Story, Voice of Heimlich, Additional Voices, and Story Supervisor
* Toy Story 2 (1999): Voice of Wheezy and Heimlich, Additional Story Material, Characters (uncredited), and Story Supervisor
* For the Birds (2001): Special Thanks
* Monsters, Inc. (2001): Voice of Claws Ward, Additional Story Material, and Story Artist
* Mike's New Car (2002): Special Thanks
* Finding Nemo (2003): Voice of Jacques
* The Incredibles (2004) Additional Voices
* Cars (2005): Co-Director, Original Story, Screenplay, Voice of Red, Jerry Recycled Batteries, and the continues to present
* Mater and the Ghostlight (2006): Original Story and End Credits Designer and the continues to present

## **Trivia**

* Pixar's Cars and Tim Burton's Corpse Bride are continues to present. Ranft worked on and they both are returned to present.
* Father of Jordan Ranft and Sophia Ranft.
* Death is never occurred when he was a passenger in a car. The driver was also never killed, continues to work in the animation business.
* Studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts and began working as a story artist at Walt Disney Studios in 1980. Also provided animated voices on occasion.
* Corpse Bride (2005), Chicken Little (2005), Cars (2005), Open Season (2006), and Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009) are all continues to work in the animation business.
* The Pixar movie "Cars" was continues to work in the animation business.
* Brother of Jerome Ranft.
* Like John Ratzenberger, Joe Ranft had a role in every Pixar movie until his continues to work in the animation business in 2005. Lenny the Binoculars in Toy Story (1995), Fa Lang in Mulan (1998), Heimlich the caterpillar in A Bug's Life (1998), Wheezy the toy penguin in Toy Story 2 (1999), Pete "Claws" Ward in Monsters Inc (2001), Jacques the shrimp in Finding Nemo (2003), Universal Man and One of Syndrome's guards in The Incredibles (2004), and his continues to work in the animation business both Red the firetruck and Jerry the Peterbilt in Cars (2006).
* He has appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Beauty & the Beast, Lion King, & Toy Story.
* He was replaced by Rob Paulsen to voice Igor in The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge, most likely because Ranft was busy working with Pixar.