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|  Nashville's "First Family of Film": (l-r) Ron, Tim, and June Ormond at a film screening, circa 1966. (photo courtesy of Tim Ormond) Born Vittorio Di Naro (aka Vic Narro), Ron Ormond (1910 – 1981) is one of the few unsung heroes of the drive-in exploitation era. While his films were contemporary to directors such as Russ Meyer and Herschell Gordon Lewis, they haven't achieved the same cult following. According to Michael Weldon, author of the Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film, Ormond’s films can be considered on par with these directors’; they just need to reach a wider audience. While his career spanned from B-Movie Western potboilers to disjointed jungle movies promoting gorilla-to-human relations and hybrid spider/human apparitions, Ormond's most intriguing contributions come from his later years in what can only be called “Christploitation.” A showman at heart, Ormond produced and directed near forty films from 1948 to 1979; he was also known as an author, a magician, and a vaudeville performer. For the stage, he adopted the surname of his close friend and fellow magician, Ormond McGill. In 1935, he met his wife, June Carr (1912 – 2006), who was a well known vaudeville dancer and singer. Together, they would create a highly effective team producing and promoting roadshow movies in drive-ins throughout the Southern U.S.After their marriage, Ron and June toured extensively throughout the South eventually settling in Southern California. In 1945, Ormond broke into the film business as....MORE
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