Fred Walton

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. He quickly gained the respect and recognition of his peers through his various exploits that would follow him throughout his entire career. Numerous celebrities have written about Fred's unique gift but most people never tell about the kind of man that Fred was. In the 1940s, he was on a film set playing a drummer in a scene where the town was burning around him and a piece of the burning building fell onto his drum and it caught fire. The true professional that Walton was, he did not want to ruin the scene so he continued to play the drum though the drum was on fire. After the director yelled cut, Walton went over and had his burns tended to by a doctor and the director foun