Kent Walton Kent Walton Kent Walton (22 August 1917 – 24 August 2003), born Kenneth Walton Beckett, was a British television sports commentator, presenter and actor. He is best remembered as the predominant commentator on ITV's coverage of British professional wrestling from 1955-1988. Despite a transatlantic accent which led many to believe he was Canadian, he was born in Cairo, Egypt, the son of the finance minister in the colonial government. He grew up at Haslemere in Surrey and went to Charterhouse School. He attended the Embassy School of Acting in London and appeared in rep. On the outbreak of war in
Travis Walton UFO incident concluding that "one of those instant celebrities was Travis Walton." In 1978, Walton wrote the book "The Walton Experience" detailing his claims, which became the basis for the 1993 film "Fire in the Sky". Paramount Pictures decided Walton’s account was "too fuzzy and too similar to other televised close encounters," so they ordered screenwriter Tracy Tormé to write a "flashier, more provocative" abduction story. Walton has occasionally appeared at UFO conventions or on television. He sponsors his own UFO conference in Arizona, called the "Skyfire Summit." Thirty years after the book's release, Walton appeared on the Fox game show "The