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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.
Ranft died during the production of Cars, which he co-directed and voice acted in. The film and tie-in game are dedicated to his memory, as is Tim Burton 's Corpse Bride , on which Ranft was executive producer. [8]
Joe Ranft was a Pixar writer and director who voiced Red and Chick Hicks in Cars, a 2006 animated comedy film about racing cars. He died in 2005 and the film was dedicated to him.
- John Lasseter, Joe Ranft
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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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