Dave Lounder

David Brian Lounder is the proud son of the late Barbara Aloise Cope Lounder, a secretary and stock market investor, and Richard Adelbert Lounder, an automobile salesman, and roofing and siding contractor. David worked as a radio personality on both AM and FM stations, before shifting his focus to entrepreneurial pursuits, highlighted by a mobile disc jockey business, record and tape store, and cinema and Drive-In Theatre operating companies. He studied acting and improvisation in New York City. Engaged numerous times, but never married, Lounder's fourth fiance, 1980s Hollywood model and actress, Heidi Anne Zacher, passed away unexpectedly in 2011, at age 42. Mr. Lounder has battled Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (O.C.D.) and clinical depression for most of his life, and in 2008 checked himself into a state psychiatric hospital, after a severe downward spiral. Years of alcohol abuse and poor diet resulted in a three month medical hospitalization in 2012 for pancreatitis, including a two week induced coma. While comatose, David's organs failed, and his immediate family was notified that he would not survive. The ordeal resulted in his having to re-learn to walk, and left him with severe neuropathy in both feet. Today (2022), he's 10+ years sober, semi-retired, Vegan, and a huge animal advocate. He continues to act in, and produce movies; is an authority on Drive-In Theatres, and dabbles in the buying and selling of collectibles and antiques, with all proceeds going to the operation of his two non-profit companies: Dave Lounder (DaLo) Enterprises, a voice for, and guardian of, ALL animals; and The Drive-In Theatre Preservation Society. Lounder shares his Connecticut home with his six rescued companion animals.