Ron Haydock was an American actor, screenwriter, novelist and rock musician.

His band, Ron Haydock & the Boppers, was sometimes compared to Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....

. Their August, 1959, debut release was "99 Chicks"/"Be-Bop-A Jean." These tunes and 26 other tracks were reissued by Norton Records

Norton Records

For the Canadian independent record label of the same name, see Matt Minglewood.Norton Records, a New York City based independent record label founded by musicians Miriam Linna and Billy Miller, maintains a focus on primitive, retro rock'n'roll, rockabilly, garage punk, garage rock, lounge music...

 on the 1996 CD 99 Chicks, which had a vinyl release in 2005.

In the Hollywood B-movie industry, Haydock was an actor and screenwriter, working with director Ray Dennis Steckler

Ray Dennis Steckler

Ray Dennis Steckler , also known by the pseudonym Cash Flagg, was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor best known as the low-budget auteur of such cult films as The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies...

, and he also worked as a magazine editor. Haydock used a variety of pseudonyms—Arnold Hayes, Lonnie Lord, Vin Saxon, Don Sheppard and Jerry Lee Vincent. As Vin Saxon, he was the author of adult fiction paperbacks during the 1960s and 1970s. As Arnold Hayes, he wrote graphic stories for Warren Publishing

Warren Publishing

Warren Publishing was an American magazine company founded by James Warren, who published his first magazines in 1957 and continued in the business for decades...

. Haydock was allegedly responsible for discovering actor Edgar Aghassi and setting him on a career in cult horror films.

Haydock's life came to an end in 1977, when he was struck by a truck while hitchhiking after visiting Steckler in Las Vegas. Norton Record's Miriam Linna

Miriam Linna

Miriam Linna has run the Brooklyn-based independent record label Norton Records since 1986 with her husband—the producer and singer-songwriter Billy Miller...

 has written extensively about Haydock for liner notes, magazine articles and the book Sin-A-Rama (2004).

Filmography

• Terror In The Snow (1973, never completed) co-starred Edgar Aghassi
• Blood Shack (1971) .... Tim
• Body Fever (1969) .... Fritz, the photographer
• Rat Pfink a Boo Boo
  Rat Pfink a Boo Boo
  Rat Pfink a Boo Boo is a 1966 film directed by Ray Dennis Steckler. Starring Ron Haydock and Carolyn Brandt.Perhaps the most striking feature of the film—beyond the low production values—is a sudden switch in tone and plot that comes roughly forty minutes into the movie...
  
   (1966) (as Vin Saxon) .... Lonnie Lord/Rat Pfink
• Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters
  Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters
  Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters is a trilogy of short films released in 1965. The films are considered a tribute to the long-running Bowery Boys films from the mid 1940s to late 1950s....
  
   (1965)
• The Thrill Killers
  The Thrill Killers
  The Thrill Killers is a horror/thriller film released in 1964 and directed by low-budget film-maker Ray Dennis Steckler. It stars Cash Flagg and Liz Renay....
  
   (1964) (as Tim)

As Vin Saxon

• Pagan Urge - 1963 (reissued as God of Lust)
• Ape Rape - 1964 (reissued in 1967 as Caged Lust)
• Erotic Executives - 1964
• Perverted Lust - 1964
• Unnatural Desires - 1965
• Whisper of Silk - 1966
• Sex-a-Reenos - 1966
• Pagan Lesbians - 1966
• Animal Lust - 1969

External links

• Discography
• Ron Haydock at the Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
  
  
• Edgar Aghassi and Ron Haydock: A Nightmarish Friendship (paperback, 2001)