Joe Ranft

Joe Ranft (March 13, 1960 - August 16, 2005) is an American actor for The Walt Disney Company.

Career
Ranft reunited with Lasseter when he was hired by Pixar in 1991 as their head of story. There he worked on all of their films produced up to 2006; this included Toy Story (for which he received an Academy Award nomination) and A Bug's Life, as the co-story writer and others as story supervisor. His final film was Cars. He also voiced characters in many of the films, including Heimlich the caterpillar in A Bug's Life, Wheezy the penguin in Toy Story 2, and Jacques the shrimp in Finding Nemo.

Selected filmography

 * The Brave Little Toaster (1987) - Elmo St. Peters
 * Toy Story (1995) - Lenny the Binoculars
 * A Bug's Life (1998) - Heimlich
 * Toy Story 2 (1999) - Wheezy
 * Monkeybone (2000) - Streetsquash Rabbit
 * Monsters, Inc. (2001) - Pete "Claws" Ward
 * Finding Nemo (2003) - Jacques
 * The Incredibles (2004) - Crowd Member
 * Cars (2006) - Red