Frank A. Lama is a film producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

, director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 and character actor

Character actor

A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...

 born in Tillsonburg, Ontario

Ontario

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Although his film work has largely been confined to horror and broad comedy, Lama studied acting at Wilfrid Laurier University

Wilfrid Laurier University

Wilfrid Laurier University is a university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It also has campuses in Brantford, Ontario, Kitchener, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario and a future proposed campus in Milton, Ontario. It is named in honour of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada....

 and has starred in over 20 plays in the U.S. and Canada. Recent film roles include wisecracking insomniac Detective Peters in Fear of Clowns

Fear of Clowns

__FORCETOC__Fear of Clowns is a 2004 horror film about an artist who is seemingly stalked by a killer clown named Shivers the Clown. A 2007 sequel called Fear of Clowns 2 was made.-Plot:...

and Fear of Clowns 2

Fear of Clowns 2

__FORCETOC__Fear of Clowns 2 is a 2007 horror film and a sequel to Fear of Clowns. The film takes place two years after the events of the first one and continues the story of a young woman getting stalked by a clown killer ....

, and randy fishing show host Darrel Delhey in the horror comedy Swarm of the Snakehead

Swarm of the Snakehead

Swarm of the Snakehead is a 2006 comedy/horror feature film directed by Frank A. Lama and Joel C. Denning and written by Seth Hurwitz. It is the first feature from producers Lama and Hurwitz's Baltimore-based production company Ten Pound Films....

, which he also co-directed and produced.