
Zalman King
Biography
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Zalman King (born Zalman King Lefkowitz; May 23, 1942 – February 3, 2012) was an American film director, writer, actor and producer. His films are known for incorporating sexuality, and are often categorized as erotica.
He was born Zalman Lefkovitz in Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. As a young man in 1963 he played a gang member on Alfred Hitchcock Presents ("Memo from Purgatory" written by Harlan Ellison) with James Caan and Walter Koenig. In 1967 he played the outlaw Muley in "Muley", an episode of the TV show Gunsmoke. His character shoots Marshall Matt Dillon as part of a plan to rob the Dodge City Bank, but as he and his gang are waiting for Dillon to recover (so they can try again to kill him), Muley falls in love with one of the girls at the Long Branch Saloon, which thwarts the plan.
From September 1970 until May 1971, King played attorney Aaron Silverman on the drama The Young Lawyers, broadcast on the ABC television network. King later contributed a unique delivery to Trip with the Teacher (1975), portraying the psychopathic Al, a narcoleptic murdering motorbiker.
King has directed several commercially successful films, including Two Moon Junction (1988), Wild Orchid (1990), and Red Shoe Diaries (1992), which became a long-running television series for Showtime network. It spawned many sequels. He is perhaps best known for his collaboration with director Adrian Lyne on the film 9½ Weeks which starred Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke. He produced (and usually directed) the television series and film ChromiumBlue.com and Showtime series Body Language. He appeared in Lee Grant's directorial debut feature film Tell Me a Riddle.
Other work as director includes the 1995 film Delta of Venus based on the book by Anaïs Nin and starring Audie England. The film about an American girl living in Paris in 1939 is in many ways reminiscent of European art house films where erotica forms a centerpiece to a plot which is nevertheless about greater issues.
He is married to writer/producer Patricia Louisianna Knop. They have collaborated on many projects, such as writing Wild Orchid, Delta of Venus and 9½ Weeks as well as many episodes of Red Shoe Diaries. They have two daughters, Chloe King and Gillian Lefkowitz.
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Acting (19 movies)

Playboy: The Story of X
1998

Blue Sunshine
1977

Galaxy of Terror
1981

Endangered Species
1982

The Foreign Eye
2006

Smile Jenny, You're Dead
1974

Saint Francis
2007

The Passover Plot
1976

Some Call It Loving
1973

Stranger on the Run
1967

The Young Lawyers
1969

Neither by Day Nor by Night
1972

The Ski Bum
1971

The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones
1966

The Intruders
1970

Trip with the Teacher
1975

Tell Me a Riddle
1980

You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat
1971

The Beaches of Agnès
2008
Directing (30 movies)

Zalman King's Sex, Y & Z
2003

Gypsy Love
2002

The Eternal
2002

Cover Me Girls
2002

Shame, Shame, Shame
1999

Wild Orchid
1989

Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
1991

Red Shoe Diaries
1992

In God's Hands
1998

Delta of Venus
1995

Women of the Night
2001

Boca
1994
Crazy Again
2006
Dance with the Devil
2006

Pleasure or Pain
2013

Wildfire
1988

ChromiumBlue.com
2002

Kamikaze Love Volume 1 - Craving Intensity
2021

Kamikaze Love Volume 2 - Overwhelming Passion
2021

Kamikaze Love Volume 3 - Pushing Boundaries
2021

Kamikaze Love Volume 4 - Exploring Together
2021

Kamikaze Love Volume 5 - Unexpected Pleasure
2021

Kamikaze Love Volume 6 - Dangerous Desires
2021

Body Language
2008

Red Shoe Diaries 2: Double Dare
1993

Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick
1993

Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica
1994

Two Moon Junction
1988

March with the Devil
2014

Barely Brooke
2002