Joe Ranft
Joe Ranft (born March 13, 1960 in Pasadena , California , † August 16, 2005 in Mendocino County , California) was an American screenwriter and creative mind at Pixar .
Life
Joe was born in Pasadena, California in 1960, after his brother Jerome and sister Ruth-Ann. He grew up in Whittier, California and took an early interest in sorcery and magic . He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts and was taken over by Disney in 1980 .
Joe Ranft worked from 1980 to 1992 for Disney and was partly due to the creation of the scripts of The Lion King ( The Lion King , 1994) and Beauty and the Beast ( Beauty and the Beast , 1991) involved.
On October 5, 1992, his former professor John Lasseter, Vice President of Pixar, brought him to the Pixar animation studio. Joe Ranft was Pixar's “Head of Story” and one of the creative minds and was extremely involved in the company's success. At Pixar, he wrote the scripts for Toy Story and The Big Crawl ( A Bug's Life , 1998). Ranft was also the original voice for Gustl, die Raupe ( Heimlich the Caterpillar ) in Das große Krabbeln and for the penguin Wheezy in Toy Story 2 .
Ranft received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay for Toy Story .
Joe Ranft died on August 16, 2005 when his car and two other occupants fell off a cliff into the sea. Ranft's driver, Elegba Earl, was also killed in the accident. His death occurred during the production of the Disney film Cars , which he co-directed. The film is dedicated to him in the credits.
He was posthumously awarded the Disney Legends Award in 2006 .
Filmography
- Screenwriter
- 1987: The Brave Little Toaster ( The Brave Little Toaster )
- 1988: Oliver & Co. ( Oliver & Company )
- 1990: Bernard and Bianca in Kangaroo Land ( The Rescuers Down Under )
- 1991: Beauty and the Beast (1991) ( Beauty and the Beast )
- 1994: The Lion King ( The Lion King )
- 1995: Toy Story
- 1998: A Bug's Life ( A Bug's Life )
- 1999: Fantasia 2000
- 2006: Cars
- Voice (original film)
- 1987: The Brave Little Toaster ( The Brave Little Toaster )
- 1995: Toy Story
- 1998: A Bug's Life ( A Bug's Life )
- 1999: Toy Story 2
- 2001: Monkeybone
- 2001: Monster AG ( Monsters, Inc. )
- 2003: Finding Nemo ( Finding Nemo )
- 2004: The Incredibles ( The Incredibles )
- 2006: Cars
literature
- John Canemaker : Two Guys Named Joe. Master Animation Storytellers Joe Grant & Joe Ranft. 192 pp. Disney Editions, New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-4231-1067-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Official Academy Awards®Database. Retrieved December 28, 2008 .
Web links
- Joe Ranft in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biographical article about Joe Ranft ( Memento from January 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- “Tribute: Pixar's Joe Ranft” (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ranft, Joe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pasadena , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 2005 |
| Place of death | Mendocino County , California |