Famous Movie Producer Teaching at OCCC

 Gray Fredrickson is an instructor at the Oklahoma City Community College who also oversees the Film Department in the Visual and Performing Art Center. Fredrickson also happens to be the producer of all three “Godfather” movies.

(PHOTO:  Matthew Shaffer)

                                                          
Born in Oklahoma City and graduating the University of Oklahoma with a degree in Business, Fredrickson is the only producer in Hollywood who has been apart of three of the top ten movies in Hollywood: Godfather I&II and Apocalypse Now. He’s won two academy awards for those movies and is the first Oklahoman to do so.
Fredrickson started in the Italian Film Industry in the 1960s and his first hit film, Little Fauss and Big Halsey, would propel him through several other hit movies. He would finally return to Oklahoma in 1999 as a part of OCCC to assist in the state’s efforts to recruit motion pictures.
Fredrickson continues to be an excellent asset to the college’s students and faculty, and his work as a producer for current films and documentaries. This short video gives personal insight into then and now working at the Oklahoma City Community College in Oklahoma City. (VIDEO:  Matthew Shaffer, 2:00)