Kent Walton 1939, he joined the Royal Air Force, serving in Bomber Command as a radio operator and front gunner. He acquired his accent mixing with Canadian airmen. After the end of the war he returned to acting before commentating on tennis and football. He made his television wrestling commentary debut on the ITV network in November 1955, a job he kept for 33 years. At its peak in the 1970s, ITV's wrestling coverage, on "World of Sport", could command up to 12 million between the football half-time and full-time results (4–4.40pm) on Saturdays. Although fans of ITV's wrestling coverage reportedly included
Kent Walton the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen Mother and Margaret Thatcher, enthusiasm was not shared by ITV's Head of Sport, Greg Dyke, and in 1988 he dropped the sport, a blow from which it never recovered. Kent Walton was a disc jockey on Radio Luxembourg, and for a time presented two music TV shows, "Honey Hit Parade" and "Cool for Cats". In the early sixties, he acted as a judge on "Thank Your Lucky Stars" on ITV. In the early 1970s he was involved with British sexploitation movies and is credited as a producer of such films as "Clinic