William "Bud" Luckey is an American cartoonist, animator, singer, musician, composer and voice actor. He is best known for his work at Pixar as a character designer for Toy Story, Boundin', Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Cars, The Incredibles, Ratatouille and Toy Story 3. As a voice for animated characters Luckey is known as the voice of Rick Dicker in The Incredibles, Chuckles the Clown in Toy Story 3 and as the Winnie the Pooh character Eeyore. Luckey is beloved by generations of Sesame Street viewers for over a dozen short animated films he made for that program?many of which were co-produced/created with his longtime friend and creative collaborator writer/lyricist Don Hadley. At age 69, Luckey wrote, directed, composed and performed as the solo singer/narrator on the Pixar 2004 Animated Short film Boundin' which won the Annie Award as well as an Academy Award nomination in the Best Animated Short Film category. Luckey semi-retired from Pixar in 2008 but continues to work with the studio from time to time and with the parent Disney organization?primarily as a performer of character voices. 

July 28th, 1934 in Billings  /  Died:   Feb 24th, 2018