Raymond Saharath Persi is a director for episodes of The Simpsons. In 2010, Raymond moved from Fox Studios to Walt Disney Animation Studios to work on the 2012 animated feature film, Wreck-It Ralph. In that film, he provided the voices of Gene and Cyril. He was also a storyman and voiced the Horn on the animated short, Get a Horse!. Additionally, he voiced Flash in the 2016 animated feature film, Zootopia. During the D23 Expo2015 in Anaheim, California, Raymond Persi revealed that he was storyboarding for the ultimately cancelled Gigantic.
Persi was also tasked to storyboard a long-lost alternate ending to The Jungle Book that was adapted from an old script treatment, which appears as a bonus feature on the film's Blu-ray release.
Outside of Disney, Persi worked extensivly on The Simpsons as a director. He also co-directed Squirrel Nut Zippers' "Ghost of Stephen Foster" music video, from the album Perennial Favorites (Mammoth Records) which won the "Best Animated Music Video" award at the 1999 Vancouver Animation Festival and was nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject.
Disney's Nine Old Men:Milt Kahl • Frank Thomas • Ollie Johnston • Les Clark • John Lounsbery • Marc Davis • Ward Kimball • Eric Larson • Wolfgang Reitherman
Animators:Bill Tytla • Art Babbitt • Lee Blair • Preston Blair • Fred Moore • Shamus Culhane • Cy Young • Don Lusk • Norman Ferguson • Hal King • Jack Hannah • Dick Kinney • Hal Ambro • Ken O'Brien • Judge Whitaker • Bill Justice • Don Bluth • Gary Goldman • Charles A. Nichols • Blaine Gibson • John Ewing • Walt Stanchfield • Fred Hellmich • Amby Paliwoda • Wilfred Jackson • Xavier Atencio • Ben Sharpsteen • Earl Hurd • Dale Oliver • Eric Cleworth • David Hand • Fred Spencer • Julius Svendsen • Kenneth Muse • Rudolf Ising • Hugh Harman • Friz Freleng • Walt Kelly • Leo Salkin • John Dehner Visual Development, Layout, Background Artists and Character Designers:Gustaf Tenggren • Mary Blair • Marjorie Ralston • Lillian Bounds • Joe Grant • Mel Shaw • Claude Coats • Don DaGradi • John Hench • Eyvind Earle • Ken O'Connor • Thor Putnam • Albert Hurter • John Hubley • Herbert Ryman • Don Griffith • Basil Davidovich • Jack Boyd • Peter Ellenshaw • Ruthie Tompson • Earl Duvall Storyboard Artists and Writers:Bill Peet • Ralph Wright • Dick Huemer • Floyd Norman • Yale Gracey • Ted Sears • Erdman Penner • Joe Rinaldi • Winston Hibler • Otto Englander • William Cottrell • Bill Berg • Al Bertino • T. Hee • Homer Brightman • Ted Osbourne • Larry Clemmons • Harry Reeves • Jesse Marsh Directors:Clyde Geronimi • Hamilton Luske • Jack Kinney • Ted Berman • Richard Rich • Nathan Greno • George Scribner • Riley Thomson • Dick Lundy • Jack King • Burt Gillett Producers:Walt Disney • Ron Miller • Ken Anderson • Don Duckwall • Perce Pearce • Margaret J. Winkler
