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
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