[1] Ormond married the vaudeville singer and dancer June Carr (1912–2006) six weeks after he met her during a run of 1935 stage performances at the Capitol Theater in Portland, Ore.

Ormond also wrote a series of Westerns starring former Hopalong Cassidy sidekicks James Ellison and Russell Hayden.

Western Adventure acquired reissue rights to a number of Hal Roach's Laurel and Hardy comedies, and distributed them along with its own productions.

Howco had an ambitious beginning, producing a moderately expensive western filmed in Cinecolor with familiar Hollywood players, Outlaw Women (1952).

Ormond and his partners soon targeted the teenage drive-in audience with quickie exploitation features, such as Mesa of Lost Women, Untamed Mistress, Teenage Bride (also known as Please Don't Touch Me) and country-music movies such as 1965's 40 Acre Feud, featuring country-music stars George Jones, Bill Anderson and Skeeter Davis, and 1967's White Lightnin' Road, a racetrack melodrama starring country singer and frequent Ormond actor Earl "Snake" Richards.

In the mid-1960s, Ormond produced roller derby on television for Leo Seltzer, with his son, Tim, as one of the players in the children's version of the sport.

[6] He had crashed his single-engine airplane into a field near Nashville in 1966 while en route to a screening of The Girl from Tobacco Row, and he seems to have emerged from the accident—he spent months recovering from serious injuries—a Christian.

RiffTrax, consisting of former Mystery Science Theater 3000 alumni Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett and Michael J. Nelson, spoofed Mesa of Lost Women on April 2, 2012.