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Fred Walton (July 26, 1865 – December 28, 1936) was an English stage actor who immigrated to the United States in the early part of the 20th century and became a character actor and director in American silent and early sound films.
Fred Walton is probably the most written about male-extra in the history of movies. Most people don't know his real name, they just know him by his nickname "O.K. Freddie." While there is not much known about how Fred Walton arrived in Hollywood, he was reportedly a film extra that started in movies in the 1920s.
Fred Walton. Director: When a Stranger Calls. Fred Walton is known for When a Stranger Calls (1979), The Rosary Murders (1987) and When a Stranger Calls (2006). He has been married to Barbara Boles since 1979. They have two children.
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Fred Walton (born 1949) is an American film director and screenwriter. Among his films are When a Stranger Calls, April Fool's Day, The Rosary Murders, I Saw What You Did, When a Stranger Calls Back and The Stepford Husbands. Born around 1950, Walton was raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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Jill Johnson is babysitting the children of Dr. Mandrakis at his home. The children are asleep, and Jill receives a telephone call from a man who asks her if she has checked the children. Jill initially dismisses the call as a practical joke. However, he calls again and again, the calls increase in frequency and threats, and Jill becomes frightened...
Development
When a Stranger Calls is an expanded remake of Fred Walton and Steve Feke's short film The Sitter (1977), which roughly comprised the first 23 minutes of this film. Walton and Feke alleged that they based The Sitter on a newspaper article detailing the harassment of a young woman who, while babysitting in Santa Monica, California, received phone calls from her attacker inside the residence. The Sitter was released theatrically as a pre-screening short feature on a bill with Looking for Mr. Go...
Filming
The film marked cinematographer Donald Peterman's feature film debut as director of photography. Principal photography began October 9, 1978, and took place over 27 1/2 days at locations in and around Los Angeles, largely including the Brentwood neighborhood. The house which served as the location for the first act of the movie was at 321 S. Chadbourne Ave., in Brentwood. The Lockhart home in the final act was at 2722 Club Drive in Los Angeles. Both houses have been torn down. In November 197...
Columbia Pictures released When a Stranger Calls theatrically in the United States on September 28, 1979. Following successful box office receipts, Columbia re-released it to theaters in the fall of 1980, with screenings beginning in early October in the San Francisco Bay Area and Detroit, and on Halloween night in Miamiand the Raleigh metropolitan...
Hutchings, Peter (2017). Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-538-10244-2.Olivier, Marc (2020). Household Horror: Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-04659-8.When a Stranger Calls at the American Film Institute CatalogWhen a Stranger Calls at IMDbWhen a Stranger Calls at AllMovieWhen a Stranger Calls at the TCM Movie DatabaseFred Walton is known as an Actor and Writer. Some of his work includes It Happened One Night, Dracula's Daughter, River of No Return, Lili, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Far Country, Kiki, and Torture Ship.
Fred Walton worked on a variety of projects during his entertainment career. In his early acting career, Walton appeared in such films as "The City" (1926), "Below the Deadline" (1929) and "Dynamite" (1929).
