Disney animator and storystoryboard writer who is best known for providing the gloomy sullen voice of Eeyore from the popular WinniethePooh 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 cartoons 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