---
name: "Milton Gray"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/milton-gray"
fi1m_id: "milton-gray"
imdb_id: "nm0336836"
tmdb_id: 1100798
wikidata_id: "Q3314526"
roles: ["Visual effects","Director"]
born: "1 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 61
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T21:39:51.151421+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."
---

# Milton Gray

## Identity

Milton Gray

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/milton-gray
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** milton-gray
- **IMDb ID:** nm0336836
- **TMDB ID:** 1100798
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3314526
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3314526, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0336836/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1100798

Visual effects and director. Born 1 January 1953.

## Details

- **Work:** Visual effects, Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1953
- **Active:** 1980–1989
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 directing, 2 crew
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3314526, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0336836/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1100798

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Simpsons*](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md) (88)

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

## Biography

Milton Gray is an American animator, animation timer and director. He began his career in the 1970s working on animated feature films including *Fritz the Cat* (1972), *Heavy Traffic* (1973), *Coonskin* (1975) and *Heavy Metal* (1981). He contributed to the visual effects for *Poltergeist* (1982).

Gray worked extensively on the animated series *The Simpsons* (1989–2008), serving as an animation timer on more than sixty episodes and directing two episodes, including one co-directed with Wes Archer. He received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program as part of the *The Simpsons* team in 2003. His other television credits include directing on *My Little Pony Tales* and work on *American Dad!*.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (1)

- *The Simpsons* (1989), Fi1m 88, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)

### Crew (2) — the average rests on these

- *Poltergeist* (1982), Fi1m 84, Visual Effects — [page](https://film.one/film/poltergeist.md)
- *Xanadu* (1980), Fi1m 38, Animation — [page](https://film.one/film/xanadu.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *American Dad!* (2005), series, Animation
- *Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue* (1990), Director
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, Animation, Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *G.I. Joe: The Movie* (1987), Animation
- *My Little Pony: The Movie* (1986), Animation Director
- *Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase* (1982), Animation
- *Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All* (1982), Animation
- *Poltergeist* (1982), Visual Effects — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/poltergeist.md)
- *Heavy Metal* (1981), Animation
- *Xanadu* (1980), Animation — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/xanadu.md)
- *The Mouse and His Child* (1977), Animation
- *Coonskin* (1975), Animation
- *The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat* (1974), Animation
- *Heavy Traffic* (1973), Animation
- *Fritz the Cat* (1972), Animation
- *The Possum That Didn't* (1972), Director

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