Gray Frederickson
Air Date, August 24, 2014
Academy Award-winning producer Gray Frederickson received an OSCAR for producing THE GODFATHER PART II and was nominated for an Academy Award for producing APOCALYPSE NOW. He also won an Emmy in 2007 for producing the documentary, DREAM NO LITTLE DREAM, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ROBERT S. KERR.
Frederickson has the honor of having three of his films listed on The American Film Institute’s top 100 films.
In 2000 he started a technical film and video program at the Oklahoma City Community College where he serves as An Artist in Residence; however, he also continues to produce movies. Recent movies produced by Frederickson have been CLOUD 9 starring Burt Reynolds, THE HUNT, a sci-fi horror film, SURVEILLANCE, a thriller starring Armand Assante, SOUL’S MIDNIGHT, a vampire tale, and FINGERPRINTS, a supernatural thriller which was based on a well known urban legend. Gray also produced the drama, IVORY, in 2008, about life in a music conservatory, starring Martin Landau. His most recent films are JUST CRAZY ENOUGH, a comedy starring SNL alum, Chris Kattan; and a documentary about Natural Gas called THE GRAND ENERGY TRANSITION.
Frederickson has also produced MY FIVE WIVES starring Rodney Dangerfield and Andrew Dice Clay and SOUTH OF HEAVEN, WEST OF HELL starring Dwight Yoakam, Vince Vaughn, Billy Bob Thornton, and Bridget Fonda. Frederickson was Executive Producer of HEAVEN’S PRISONERS, starring Alec Baldwin, which was released by New Line Cinema in May 1996.
A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Frederickson later attended the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland before moving to Rome, Italy. There he served as Production Manager and Producer on a variety of Italian films such as THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY starring Clint Eastwood, and CANDY, starring Marlon Brando and Richard Burton. Frederickson then moved to Hollywood where he was Associate Producer on LITTLE FAUSS AND BIG HALSY starring Robert Redford, and Twentieth Century Fox’s MAKING IT. He was also the Executive Producer of the Paramount Film HIT, directed by Sidney Furie.
Frederickson began a 20-year association with Francis Ford Coppola as the Associate Producer on the Academy Award-winning THE GODFATHER. He also produced ONE FROM THE HEART and THE OUTSIDERS while a part of Coppola’s famed Zoetrope Studios. He was Co-Producer on the Academy Award-nominated THE GODFATHER PART III. He also was Executive Producer of UHF starring Weird Al Yankovic, and was Executive Producer of LADYBUGS for Paramount, starring Rodney Dangerfield.
Frederickson has been Vice President in Charge of Feature Film Production at
Warner Brothers/Lorimar. He also wrote the original story for the Twentieth Century Fox film BAD GIRLS, directed by Jonathan Kaplan and starring Andie MacDowell, Drew Barrymore, and Madeline Stowe. For television, Frederickson has produced the ABC television pilot THUNDER GUYS; Mickey Spillane’s THE RETURN OF MIKE HAMMER, and the Columbia Television Series HOUSTON KNIGHTS. He also developed and Executive Produced STAYING AFLOAT, starring Larry Hagman, for Tri-Star Television and NBC.
Frederickson also has a part ownership in, and is Executive Vice President of, Cinema Management Group, an International Film Sales Organization based in Los Angeles.
Frederickson is an Executive Producer with Austin based, luzworks. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Academy of Television Art and Sciences, The Directors Guild of America, and the Screen Actors Guild.