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.