Manuel 'Manny' Perez (17 June 1914–18 January 1981) was a Mexican American animator and animation director whose career spanned 40 years, from the 1940s to the 1980s, and best known for his work on the Warner Bros. animated shorts, working on such cartoons as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Later in his career he worked on Fritz the Cat and The Lord of the Rings. Despite having worked for Friz Freleng for about ten years, the two did not get along. According to animator Greg Duffell in 1999: He died in January 1981 aged 66 at Van Nuys in California.