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Ralph Wright

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.


Aliases
  • Ralph Waldo Wright
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Writer

Episode Chilly Willy
Salmon Loafer
1963
Episode The Wonderful World of Disney
All About Magic
1957
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
1968
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
Don's Fountain of Youth
1953
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
Private Pluto
1943
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
Aquamania
1961
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
Donald's Dog Laundry
1940
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
Lambert the Sheepish Lion
1952
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
No Sail
1945
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
The Eyes Have It
1945
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
Donald's Garden
1942
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
Donald's Crime
1945
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
R'coon Dawg
1951
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
Crazy with the Heat
1947
Episode Woody Woodpecker and Friends
Salmon Loafer
1963
Episode Paramount - Famous Studios Cartoons
Snuffy's Turf Luck
1963
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
How to Be a Sailor
1944
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
Trick or Treat
1952