In Remembrance: Lynn Lemon

     Reverend Lynn Lemon, one of a group of Baptist investors who put money into Ed Wood Jr.’s Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) and who would also have a small role in the film, has passed away on January 15, 2008 in Bedford, Texas. He was 90.

     Lemon was convinced by fellow pastor J. Edward Reynolds to invest in a film that Woods was planning called Grave Robbers From Outer Space. The plan was for profits from the film be applied towards the production of a biopic of early 20^th century evangelist Billy Sunday and other Christian-themed films. However, Plan 9 From Outer Space, as the film was eventually titled, was a financial flop, the other projects never materialized and the investors never recouped their losses. Lemon, however, was cast by Wood in the film to play the minister officiating at the funeral of the police inspector played by hulking actor Tor Johnson.

     Rev. Lemon also appeared in 1973’s Invasion Of The Bee Girls, again playing a minister at a funeral. He got the role by virtue of working for the cemetery that Bee Girls director Denis Sanders wanted to film at.