Gray Frederickson (July 21, 1937 – November 20, 2022) was an American film producer. Frederickson was a long-time producer for Francis Ford Coppola and worked out of a studio alongside Greg Mellott out of Oklahoma City.
Gray Frederickson Obituary
Academy Award-winning Oklahoma City filmmaker Gray Frederickson died Sunday, November 20, 2022, at the age of 85.
Gray Frederickson’s cause of death was not disclosed yet. There is no information available about Gray Frederickson’s cause of death.
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 a producer of 1963’s “Nakita.” That led to more opportunities, such as joining Italian director Sergio Leone’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” as production manager. Frederickson forged a lasting friendship with that film’s star, Clint Eastwood.