---
name: "Michael Peraza"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-peraza-jr"
fi1m_id: "michael-peraza-jr"
imdb_id: "nm0672791"
tmdb_id: 1615256
wikidata_id: "Q28790260"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "15 November 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-24T02:00:34.792171+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Michael Peraza

## Identity

Michael Peraza

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-peraza-jr
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-peraza-jr
- **IMDb ID:** nm0672791
- **TMDB ID:** 1615256
- **Wikidata ID:** Q28790260
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Peraza, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28790260, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672791/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1615256

Production designer. Born 15 November 1955 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 15 November 1955, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- **Active:** 1989–1997
- **Also known as:** Michael Peraza Jr., Michael A. Peraza Jr.
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 80 (1), 1990s 64 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Peraza, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28790260, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672791/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1615256

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Anastasia*](https://film.one/film/anastasia.md) (64)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Michael Peraza Jr. is an American animator, art director, conceptual artist and production designer. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he trained at the California Institute of the Arts before joining Walt Disney Feature Animation.

He contributed to numerous Disney projects in layout, art direction and visual development, including *The Fox and the Hound* (1981), *Tron* (1982), *The Little Mermaid* (1989) and *Aladdin* (1992). He later served as production designer on *Anastasia* (1997) for Don Bluth Entertainment and Fox Feature Animation. Peraza also helped develop Disney Television Animation series such as *DuckTales*, *Darkwing Duck* and *Goof Troop*.

He received the Friz Freleng Lifetime Achievement Award and the Disneyana Fan Club Legend Award. He is married to fellow Disney Master Artist Patty Peraza.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, nationalcartoonists.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Anastasia* (1997), Fi1m 64, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/anastasia.md)
- *The Little Mermaid* (1989), Fi1m 80, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/the-little-mermaid-1989.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz* (2016), as Art Direction
- *The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina* (2003), as Art Direction
- *The Jungle Book 2* (2003), as Art Direction
- *Anastasia* (1997), Production Design — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/anastasia.md)
- *Channel Umptee-3* (1997), series, Director
- *Beauty and the Beast* (1991), as Visual Development — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/beauty-and-the-beast.md)
- *The Little Mermaid* (1989), as Art Direction — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-little-mermaid-1989.md)
- *The Chipmunk Adventure* (1987), Storyboard Artist
- *Mickey's Christmas Carol* (1983), as Layout
- *Tron* (1982), Concept Artist
- *The Fox and the Hound* (1981), as Layout

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