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
Walton Studios Walton Studios Walton Studios (previously named "Hepworth Studios" and "Nettlefold Studios"), was a film production studio situated in Walton-on-Thames, in the county of Surrey, in England. The decline of the British cinematic production industry in the mid-20th Century led to a decline in work for the facility, and after failing to financially survive as a television production outlet it was closed in 1961. The Studio was subsequently demolished and the land sold for house-building. The studios began life in 1899 as "Hepworth Studios", when the early film pioneer, Cecil Hepworth, leased a house for £36 per annum in Hurst Grove,