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Fred Walton (born 1949) is an American
film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
and
screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...
. Among his films are '' When a Stranger Calls'', ''
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'', ''
The Rosary Murders ''The Rosary Murders'' is a 1987 American mystery crime film directed by Fred Walton and starring Donald Sutherland, Charles Durning, Belinda Bauer, and Josef Sommer. Its plot follows a series of gruesome murders occurring within a Detroit Roma ...
'', ''
I Saw What You Did ''I Saw What You Did'' is a 1965 American thriller film released by Universal Pictures and starring Joan Crawford and John Ireland. The plot follows two teenage girls who find themselves in serious danger after making a prank phone call to a man ...
'', ''
When a Stranger Calls Back ''When a Stranger Calls Back'' is a 1993 American made-for-television psychological horror film and a sequel to the 1979 classic '' When a Stranger Calls'' which reunites stars Carol Kane and Charles Durning (reprising their roles as Jill Johnso ...
'' and ''
The Stepford Husbands ''The Stepford Husbands'' is a 1996 American made-for-television thriller-drama film inspired by the Ira Levin novel '' The Stepford Wives''. It was directed by Fred Walton with a screenplay by brothers Ken Wheat and Jim Wheat and starring Do ...
''. Born around 1950, Walton was raised in
Chevy Chase, Maryland Chevy Chase () is the name of both a town and an unincorporated census-designated place (Chevy Chase (CDP), Maryland) that straddle the northwest border of Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. Several settlements in th ...
. He graduated from
Denison University Denison University is a private liberal arts college in Granville, Ohio. One of the earliest colleges established in the former Northwest Territory, Denison University was founded in 1831. The college was first called the Granville Literary and ...
, where he majored in theater. As of 2016, Walton resided in
Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous co ...
, where he has lived since the 1990s.


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* 1949 births Denison University alumni Film directors from Maryland Living people Horror film directors {{US-film-director-1940s-stub