Joe Ranft, a member of Toy Story's Oscar-nominated writing team, and the voice of Wheezy the penguin in Toy Story 2 and Heimlich the caterpillar in A Bug's Life, was killed Tuesday afternoon when the 2004 Honda Element he was riding in veered off a California coastal highway, and plunged 130 feet into the water below. He was 45.
At Pixar, he had a hand, or voice, in every one of its hit features: Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. According to the Times, he supervised the story on Pixar's latest, Cars, scheduled for summer 2006, and rated an executive producer credit on Tim Burtons Corpse Bride, a Warners release due out in September.
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