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Joseph Henry "Joe" Ranft (March 13, 1960 - August 16, 2005) was a key creative member of Pixar. He was the co-director and writer of Cars, and performed the voice of Red in the film. He died in a car accident on August 16, 2005.
Cars: Directed by John Lasseter, Joe Ranft. With Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy. On the way to the biggest race of his life, a hotshot rookie race car gets stranded in a rundown town and learns that winning isn't everything in life.
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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 (2006), his final work before his death.
Writer: The Brave Little Toaster. Joseph Ranft was an American writer, voice actor, animator, storyboard artist and magician. He worked for Disney and Pixar. He worked on The Lion King, The Brave Little Toaster, Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Cars, Monsters, Inc and Finding Nemo.
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78.7K subscribers. 2M views 8 years ago. ...more. Joe Ranft died at the age 45 Mendocino County, California, United States of car crash August 16, 2005. Cars was dedicated to his memory.
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Cars was the final Pixar film worked on by Joe Ranft who died in a crash a year before the film's release, aged 45. The film was the second to be dedicated to his memory, after Corpse Bride. The memorial showed the roles he had done in the other films directed by John Lasseter during the credits.
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