Jerome Ranft is an American character sculptor and voice actor for

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. He is the younger brother of Pixar story artist

Joe Ranft Joseph Henry Ranft (March 13, 1960 – August 16, 2005) was an American animator, screenwriter, and voice actor. He worked for Pixar Animation Studios and Disney at Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disney Television Animation. His younger broth ...

, who was killed in a car accident in 2005.

Career

Ranft attended

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and the

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. He graduated in 1991. His first job out of school was on the

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-produced classic ''

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''. Ranft joined Pixar in 1997, working as a character sculptor on ''

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'' (1997) and later on Pixar's second film ''

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'' (1998), ''

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'' (1999), ''

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'' (2001), ''

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'' (2003), ''

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'' (2006), ''

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'' (2007), ''

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'' (2008), ''

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'' (2010), and ''

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'' (2012). He stated in an interview that he does not intend to like just one sculpture he made but all of them and that for the character of Sulley he created over 30 different sculptures. He also provided the voice of the character Gamma in '' Up'' (2009) and ''

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'', Red in ''

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: Tales from Radiator Springs'' and ''

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'', the Mover in Henry Selick's ''

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'', as well as Jacques in ''

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'' (2016), the sequel to ''Finding Nemo'' (2003), in which his older brother Joe voiced the same character. Before joining Pixar, Jerome served as a character sculptor for Disney's ''

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'' (1996).

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* Living people Pixar people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) American sculptors American male voice actors Fullerton College alumni California College of the Arts alumni {{US-voice-actor-stub