Walter Simmons

This article is about the "old man" of Sector Seven. For the member of Triple-I , see Walter Barnett.

Walter Simmons is a human from the 2007 movie franchise in the live-action film continuity family. He is known as "The Old Man" to those within Sector Seven.

You can't see me!

_{This character has no official visual representation in any Transformers product or media... yet, at least.}

In the late 1960s, Walter Simmons is a man of great power and significance, the secret mover and shaker behind Sector Seven. It's said he knows where most of the skeletons are buried, and how they became skeletons in the first place. So fearsome is he, that even the hardened military types are a little bit afraid of him, despite the fact he's never served in the military himself.

He is the son of Sector Seven founder Walter Simmons I, father of Felix Simmons and a daughter, and grandfather of Seymour Simmons.

Fiction

Ghosts of Yesterday novel

During a briefing on Vietnam, Simmons famously called the President a "barely literate peasant". In the buildup to the Ghost 1 launch, and the relocation of the Ice Man from the Sector Seven High Arctic Base, Simmons had a squad of army rangers under Staff Sergeant Martin assigned to the base for "training exercises", so that they would be around should their services be required.

When Ghost 1 was lost, Colonel Kinnear decided not to immediately inform his superior, as there was really nothing substantial to report. Later, when Simmons did hear, he was upset, but not as badly as Kinnear had feared. He also assigned Kinnear to oversee the moving of the Ice Man from the Arctic base to a more secure facility holding another alien device. They had received some intelligence that the Soviets might know something about the Ice Man, and Simmons wanted Kinnear to ensure everything went smoothly.

Everything didn't go smoothly, and Simmons received the news that the convoy carrying the Ice Man had gone missing. He rang Philip Nolan, who'd been left in charge of the Arctic base and instructed him to put a team together to go and find Kinnear. Nolan put up a token protest as Ghost 1 was still missing, but Simmons asserted that the convoy was more important and ordered him to go. Nolan's mission resulted in the Ice Man successfully reaching Nevada. Ghosts of Yesterday