John D. Lamond

In 1969 he moved into the feature film industry when he was hired by Terry Turtle to help with the roadshow release of This Year Jerusalem.

He designed a poster of a nun in a compromising position which caused a great deal of controversy, earning the ire of then-Minister for Customs, Don Chipp, and got Lamond a job offer from the Roadshow organisation to work in distribution.

[10] Lamond stayed with Roadshow for six months, working on the release of Alvin Purple and a number of other films, then he took a trip around the world with Byron Kennedy looking at various production and distribution set ups.

He produced a short documentary with Kennedy, The Devil in Evening Dress (1974), which was an early directorial effort from George Miller.

He did this for The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style but stopped it in 1977 when it became too time consuming and Lamond became a full-time filmmaker.

[10] Lamond's dramatic feature film debut was Felicity (1979), an erotic - some would say 'sexploitation' flick, that turned out to be popular worldwide.

He produced Killing Time (24/7) (2006) in Thailand, directed by his son John Lamond Jr. Lamont was the inspiration for "Warren Perso," a fictional Australian exploitation filmmaker played by Tony Martin in "The Last Aussie Auteur," a sketch in the second season of television's The Late Show.

Lamond died, aged 71, from Parkinson's disease on 24 October 2018 at a nursing home on the Gold Coast, Queensland.