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Ralph Wright
Grants Pass, Oregon, USA
Disney animator and story/storyboard writer who is best known for providing the gloomy, sullen voice of Eeyore from the popular Winnie-the-Pooh franchise. Wright came to the stud…
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Disney animator and story/storyboard writer who is best known for providing the gloomy, sullen voice of Eeyore from the popular Winnie-the-Pooh franchise. Wright came to the studio in the 1940s, and became well known throughout the ensuing decades for his endearingly gloomy and sullen personality traits as well as his bass voice. He turned out to be a natural model for Eeyore when the studio began development on Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. He, along with his fellow Disney contemporaries, was a pioneer in the use of "gags" within cartoons, often acted out in front of the "story board," a bulletin board pinned with sequential sketches of the cartoon's scenes. This technique is still in use today in most major animation studios. He spent the last 30 years of his life in San Luis Obispo County in Los Osos. He died at his home in Los Osos, CA from a heart attack. -Wikipedia
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2002
Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
Movie Scenario Writer
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1992
Goofy at the Olympic Games
Movie Writer
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1983
Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
Movie Eeyore (voice)
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1977
Halloween Hall o' Fame
Movie Story
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1977
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Movie Eeyore (voice)
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1971
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Movie Story
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1970
The Aristocats
Movie Screenplay
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1968
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
Movie Eeyore (voice)
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1967
The Jungle Book
Movie Gloomy Elephant (voice) (uncredited)
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1966
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
Movie Eeyore (voice)
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1966
Winnie the Pooh
TV show Eeyore
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1963
Yellowstone Cubs
Movie Writer
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1963
Snuffy Smith and Barney Google
TV show Writer
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1962
Gay Purr-ee
Movie Additional Dialogue
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1961
Aquamania
Movie Story
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1961
Nikki, Wild Dog of the North
Movie Writer
More credits
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1960
The Mr. Magoo Show
TV show Writer
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1960
Popeye the Sailor
TV show Writer
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1959
Sleeping Beauty
Movie Story
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1958
Rusty and the Falcon
Movie Teleplay
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1957
Perri
Movie Director
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1957
The Blue Men of Morocco
Movie Writer
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1957
All About Magic
Movie Writer
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1956
Walt Disney's Where Do the Stories Come From?
Movie Writer
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1956
On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends
Movie Writer
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1955
Lady and the Tramp
Movie Story
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1954
Siam
Movie Writer
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1953
Walt Disney's Halloween Hilarities
Movie Writer
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1953
Don's Fountain of Youth
Movie Story
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1953
Peter Pan
Movie Story
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1952
Trick or Treat
Movie Story
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1952
Lambert the Sheepish Lion
Movie Story
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1951
R'Coon Dawg
Movie Story
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1951
Plutopia
Movie Story
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1951
Dude Duck
Movie Story
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1949
The Australian Platypus
Movie Writer
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1947
Crazy with the Heat
Movie Story
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1946
Song of the South
Movie Story
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1945
No Sail
Movie Story
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1945
Donald's Crime
Movie Story
