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Death and legacy. On August 16, 2005, Ranft, 45, and his friend Eric Frierson, 39, were passengers in Ranft's 2004 Honda Element, which was being driven by another friend, Elegba Earl, 32. Earl suddenly lost control and crashed through a guard rail while northbound on Highway 1.
Aug 19, 2005 · Pixar Studios veteran Joe Ranft died on Tuesday after the car he was riding in broke through a guardrail and plummeted over 100 feet into the ocean, says The Hollywood Reporter.
Aug 19, 2005 · Joe Ranft, who was nominated in 1996 for an Oscar as co-writer of ''Toy Story'' for Pixar Animation Studios, died on Tuesday when the car he was riding in veered off a Mendocino County highway...
Aug 18, 2005 · Joe Ranft, one of the key creators of Pixar’s hit animated features and the voice of Heimlich the Bavarian caterpillar in “A Bug’s Life” (1998), was killed in an automobile accident Tuesday...
Aug 18, 2005 · According to The Hollywood Reporter, Joe Ranft, Pixar Animation Studios' head of story for more than a decade and a cornerstone of the company's creative team, died Tuesday when the car he was...
Aug 19, 2005 · A Corte Madera man who made millions of moviegoers smile and laugh through his work at Pixar Animation Studios died this week in Mendocino County when a car in which he was a passenger flipped down...
Aug 19, 2005 · Joe Ranft, story supervisor at Pixar Animation Studios for more than a decade and an Oscar-nommed co-writer of “Toy Story” as well as “A Bug’s Life,” died Aug. 16 in a car accident in Mendocino...
Aug 17, 2005 · Pixar story man extraordinaire and voice actor Joe Ranft was killed in an automobile accident Aug. 16, 2005, near Mendocino, California, at the age of 45. Ranft was head of story on the original story teams for Pixars first two films, TOY STORY and A BUGS LIFE, and was a story artist on MONSTERS, INC. He was most recently working as head of ...
Aug 18, 2005 · Ranft died Tuesday when the car he was a passenger in plunged 130 feet off Highway 1 into the ocean, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. The driver was also killed and another passenger...
Aug 17, 2005 · We're saddened to report that Pixar's Joe Ranft, one of the leading storyboard artists in the animation industry, died yesterday from injuries sustained in a car accident. A Pixar...