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Alan Ormsby (born 1944) is an American director, screenwriter, make up artist, actor and author. He is best known for his work in the horror genre. Ormsby began work in feature films with the Bob Clark directed Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972). In addition to writing the film's script, Ormsby played the lead Alan and provided the film's make-up effects. Two years later, Ormsby and Clark re-teamed on Deranged and Deathdream. Deranged, a horror film inspired by serial killer Ed Gein, saw Clark producing with Ormsby writing and co-directing the feature (with Jeff Gillen), while... MORE

Alan Ormsby (born 1944) is an American director, screenwriter, make up artist, actor and author. He is best known for his work in the horror genre. Ormsby began work in feature films with the Bob Clark directed Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972). In addition to writing the film's script, Ormsby played the lead Alan and provided the film's make-up effects. Two years later, Ormsby and Clark re-teamed on Deranged and Deathdream. Deranged, a horror film inspired by serial killer Ed Gein, saw Clark producing with Ormsby writing and co-directing the feature (with Jeff Gillen), while Deathdream saw Clark directing another Ormsby script. The early 1980s saw Ormsby continue as a screenwriter with Ormsby providing the scripts for My Bodyguard (1980), The Little Dragons (1980), Paul Schrader's Cat People (1982) and Clark's Porky's II: The Next Day (1983). Ormsby returned to directing with Popcorn. Written by Ormsby, the film production saw him leave the director's chair early on, to be replaced by Porky's actor Mark Herrier. The only footage shot by Ormsby that remains in the final film are the scenes from the faux horror films shown in the theater. In 1996, he co-wrote The LESS