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OCCC’s Artist-in-Residence Gray Frederickson left our world for his “next great adventure” as he put it, early in the morning of November 20, 2022. Gray Frederickson began his career by producing a film when he didn’t know a thing about making movies. He just figured things out along the way. He was fearless. That give
Sep 3, 2021 · Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC) distinguished Artist in Residence Gray Frederickson was honored in a private ceremony at Prairie Surf Studios, where Prairie Surf Co-CEOs Matt Payne and Rachel Cannon dedicated a soundstage to Frederickson. Frederickson, 84, is a mentor to Payne and Cannon, as he has been to thousands of aspiring actors, filmmakers and
- Future Academy Award Winner Started His Film Career in Italy
- Producer Forged A Lasting Bond with Francis Ford Coppola
- Oscar Winner Moved Back to Oklahoma and Started A Film Program
- Best Picture Winner Helped Establish Oklahoma's First Film Incentive
- Prolific Producer Continued to Make Movies Well Into His 80s
Born and raised in Oklahoma City, the closest Frederickson got to a movie career as a youth was working as an usher at the Lakeside Theater in the 1950s. An alumnus of Casady School and the University of Oklahoma, Frederickson also attended the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. From there, he moved to Rome, where he launched his film career as...
Along with winning three Academy Awards, "The Godfather" launched a 50-year relationship between Coppola and Frederickson. The Oklahoma City native won the best picture Oscar in 1975 for "The Godfather: Part II" — the first sequel in Oscars history to win the top award — and garnered a best picture nomination in 1980 for his work on "Apocalypse Now...
Although show biz occasionally brought Frederickson back to his home state — he was executive producer on Weird Al Yankovic's 1989 cult-classic "UHF," which filmed in Tulsa— shortly after writing the original story for the 1994 Drew Barrymore film "Bad Girls," Frederickson moved back to Oklahoma with his wife, Karen, and their two children, Kelsey ...
While the state Legislature approved and Gov. Kevin Stitt signed last year Oklahoma's largest film rebate program to date, Dino Lalli recalled that Frederickson played a lead role in getting the state's first incentive passed. "As director of the Oklahoma Film + Music Office during that time, it was an honor and privilege to work with him," said La...
Although he had already worked on about 50 films, Frederickson continued to work as a filmmaker — especially in his home state — well into his 80s. Last year, he was producing a documentary called "Sherwood Forest," a film telling an overlooked World War II episode about a group of Oklahoma and Texas roughnecks shipped to England in 1943 to allevia...
Jun 19, 2023 · Oklahoma City Community College celebrated the lasting legacy of the Academy Award-winning producer of "The Godfather" trilogy, "Apocalypse Now" and "The Outsiders" June 20 with a full day of festivities. The celebration included two screenings of the new documentary "In His Words: The Tales of Gray Frederickson," the renaming of OCCC's digital ...
Gray Frederickson was an award-winning producer with a career spanning over five decades. He produced over fifty titles, including The Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now. He returned to his hometown to support the creation of a technical digital cinema program at Oklahoma City Community College and produced nine movies locally through his production company GrayMark Productions.
Jun 22, 2023 · Oklahoma City Community College recently celebrated the life of one of its notable faculty members – the late Oscar-winning filmmaker Gray Frederickson – with a new documentary and an ...
May 3, 2024 · OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (May 3, 2024) — Oklahoma City Community College is offering digital cinema production non-credit "Intensive" courses this summer to provide participants with career-ready training in a workforce development-focused format. Four different course options will be offered via the Gray Frederickson Digital Cinema Department at OCCC starting May 28. These direct-to-industry ...
