John Ratzenberger

Ratzenberger played mail carrier Cliff Clavin on the sitcomCheers. He had read for the part of Norm Peterson, but after the audition, he sensed that they were not going to give him the part. Sensing an opportunity, he asked if they had written a bar know-it-all, which the producers decided was a great idea.

He went straight back into comedy by becoming a signature icon an Pixar. The employees liked him so much he managed to get a part in almost every feature between 1995 and 2021, his roles include -

• Hamm in the Toy Story series (1995, 1999, 2010, 2019)

• P.T. Flea, the Circus Ring Leader in A Bug's Life (1998)

• The Abominable Snowman (Yeti) in the Monsters, Inc. series and Monsters at Work (2001, 2013, 2021)

• The school of Moonfish in Finding Nemo (2003)

• The Underminer in The Incredibles series (2004, 2018)

• Mack the truck in the Cars series (2006, 2011, 2017)

• Mustafa the waiter in Ratatouille (2007)

• John in WALL-E (2008)

• Tom the construction worker in Up (2009)

• Gordon the guard in Brave (2012)

• Fritz in Inside Out (2015)

• Earl the Velociraptor in The Good Dinosaur (2015)

• Bill the crab in Finding Dory (2016)

• Juan Ortodoncia in Coco (2017)

• Fenwick the construction worker in Onward (2020)

• Guy on the Subway in Soul (Likeness) (2020)