Joe Ranft dead?

Just back from Corpse Bride but this isn’t about that.

In the end credits was a dedication to the memory of Joe Ranft, one of the executive producers. Say it ain’t so, but there it is in IMDb, car crash in mid-August. Working mostly for Disney and especially Pixar he was writer and voice actor for many of the latter’s films, most notably, Heimlich in Bug’s Life and Wheezy the Penguin in Toy Story. He was forty-five.

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Damn, that’s a real shame. He left a really impressive list of credits, though.

And he was seven weeks younger than me…

Yep, from Entertainment Insiders: