William Everett Luckey was an American artist, cartoonist, illustrator, musician, singer and voice actor.
21 Facts About Bud Luckey
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Bud Luckey was the voice of Rick Dicker in The Incredibles, Chuckles the Clown in Toy Story 3 and as Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh.
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Bud Luckey continued to work as a performer of character voices in both Disney and Pixar films until his retirement in 2014.
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William Everett Bud Luckey was born in Billings, Montana on July 28,1934.
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Bud Luckey later served as an Artist-Illustrator with the NATO Allied Occupation Forces in Europe and North Africa from 1953 to 1954 and, finally, with the Strategic Air Command from 1954 to 1957.
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Bill, Bud Luckey attended Chouinard Art Institute from 1957 to 1960.
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Bud Luckey was a Disney scholar, and received professional animation training at the University of Southern California with Disney veteran animator Art Babbitt.
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Bud Luckey worked as an animator and sequence director on a pilot for Mad magazine television special produced by longtime friends Jimmy T Murakami and Gordon Bellamy.
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Bud Luckey worked with Alex Anderson, who created the characters of Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Bullwinkle, and Dudley Do-Right, as well as the more obscure Crusader Rabbit.
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The agency's Creative Director Maxwell "Bud Luckey" Arnold was considered a foremost expert in the budding field of television advertising for politics and Arnold's expertise brought many key political figures to the agency's roster.
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In that regard, Luckey did work on the presidential campaigns of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy, and Hubert Humphrey, who were clients of the agency during his tenure.
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Bud Luckey founded his own animation studio titled the Bud Luckey-Zamora Picture Moving Company in the early 1970s and merged its operation with Colossal Pictures in the late 1980s before joining Pixar in 1992.
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Bud Luckey then took studio space in the Produce District of San Francisco.
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Bud Luckey worked on Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery and did character design for Back to the Future: The Animated Series from 1991 to 1992.
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In 1990, Bud Luckey joined Pixar as a character designer, storyboard artist, and animator for Toy Story.
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Bud Luckey evolved into a pullstring doll with an empty gun holster.
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Bud Luckey wrote and designed the short, and composed the music and lyrics, and sang and performed banjo on the soundtrack for the cartoon.
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Bud Luckey lent his voice to Chuckles the Clown in Toy Story 3 and Hawaiian Vacation.
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Bud Luckey designed and illustrated more than 100 children's books containing his characters, including the Golden Book Mater and the Ghostlight, which featured the Cars character Mater.
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Bud Luckey was featured in the 2011 film Winnie the Pooh as the voice of Eeyore.
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On February 24,2018, Bud Luckey died in his home in Newtown, Connecticut of a stroke at the age of 83.