Lec Zorn

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Biography

  • Primary profession
  • Actor·producer·writer
  • Gender
  • Male

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

Debut album with The Lec Zorn Project, "It Began in the Underground," released June 16, 2007.

Brother of Robert McAtee.

Co-host of "The Side Project," a libertarian podcast, for its entire run, from 2010-2015.

Guest speaker at the Libertarian Party of Illinois 2011 Convention.

Commentates Indiana high school football and basketball games for radio broadcasts.

Father of Aria Kelly and Liam Isaac.

Of Irish, German, and Swedish descent.

Has attended every Indianapolis 500 from the year 2000 to present.

Took the name Zorn from Zorn Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky, which he often passed on exit 2 on Interstate 71. Invented the name Lec by making random letter combinations in search of a very unusual monosyllabic name.

Nephew of Bob Wichmann, who won the Indiana boys basketball state championship with Milan High School in 1954. That team also included William Jordan and had the smallest enrollment - 161 students - of any team to win the championship in Indianas 87 years of single class play. Their story was the inspiration for Hoosiers .

Fan of the Indianapolis Colts, Indiana Pacers, Indiana Fever, and Cincinnati Reds.

Great-grandson of Rev. Lloyd Caswell Kelly, founder of Clear Creek Baptist Bible College and Campbellsville University.

Second cousin of Brian Moore, who played quarterback for the University of Georgia football team from the 1988-1992 seasons.

Most of the films he writes are set in fictional Doak City, Indiana, after the setting of one of his all time favorite movies, Falling from Grace .

Host of "Super Deep Movie Analysis," a web cast that profiles one movie in each episode, from 2015 to present.

Uncle of Alec McAtee and Olivia McAtee.

Speaks some Swedish and some Esperanto.

Grandson of Dr. Ott Benton McAtee, superintendent of the Madison State Hospital in Madison, Indiana from 1952-79.

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