Zalman King
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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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Movies (66)
Kamikaze Love Volume 6 - Dangerous Desires
2021 · Writer, Director
Kamikaze Love Volume 5 - Unexpected Pleasure
2021 · Director, Writer
Kamikaze Love Volume 4 - Exploring Together
2021 · Writer, Director
Kamikaze Love Volume 3 - Pushing Boundaries
2021 · Director, Writer
Kamikaze Love Volume 2 - Overwhelming Passion
2021 · Director, Writer
Kamikaze Love Volume 1 - Craving Intensity
2021 · Director, Writer
March with the Devil
2014 · Writer, Director
Pleasure or Pain
2013 · Director, Writer
The Beaches of Agnès
2008 · Self
Body Language
2008 · Director
Saint Francis
2007 · Dr. P. Bernard
The Foreign Eye
2006 · Self
Dance with the Devil
2006 · Producer, Director
Crazy Again
2006 · Director
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003 · Self - Contributor
Zalman King's Sex, Y & Z
2003 · Director
Barely Brooke
2002 · Director
Gypsy Love
2002 · Director
The Eternal
2002 · Director
Cover Me Girls
2002 · Director
ChromiumBlue.com
2002 · Director, Executive Producer
Women of the Night
2001 · Director, Writer
Shame, Shame, Shame
1999 · Director
Red Shoe Diaries 8: Night of Abandon
1998 · Story
A Place Called Truth
1998 · Executive Producer, Story
In God's Hands
1998 · Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay
Playboy: The Story of X
1998 · Self - Producer
Black Sea 213
1998 · Executive Producer, Story
Business for Pleasure
1997 · Producer, Story, Screenplay
Female Perversions
1996 · Executive Producer
Red Shoe Diaries 6: How I Met My Husband
1996 · Executive Producer, Story
Red Shoe Diaries 5: Weekend Pass
1995 · Executive Producer, Teleplay
Delta of Venus
1995 · Director
Lake Consequence
1995 · Executive Producer, Writer
Boca
1994 · Director, Executive Producer
Return to Two Moon Junction
1994 · Characters
Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica
1994 · Director, Executive Producer
Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick
1993 · Teleplay, Director, Executive Producer
Red Shoe Diaries 2: Double Dare
1993 · Director, Teleplay, Executive Producer
Red Shoe Diaries
1992 · Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
1991 · Screenplay, Director
Wild Orchid
1989 · Director, Screenplay
Wildfire
1988 · Writer, Director
Two Moon Junction
1988 · Story, Screenplay, Director
Siesta
1987 · Executive Producer
Nine 1/2 Weeks
1986 · Producer, Screenplay
Endangered Species
1982 · Hollywood Producer, Executive Producer
Galaxy of Terror
1981 · Baelon
Tell Me a Riddle
1980 · Paul
Roadie
1980 · Executive Producer
Like Normal People
1979 · Bill Stein
Blue Sunshine
1977 · Jerry Zipkin
The Passover Plot
1976 · Yeshua of Nazareth
Sammy Somebody
1976
Trip with the Teacher
1975 · Al
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
1974 · Roy St. John
Some Call It Loving
1973 · Robert Troy
Neither by Day Nor by Night
1972 · Adam
The Love Song of Charles Faberman
1972 · TV Star
You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat
1971 · Carter Fields
The Ski Bum
1971 · Johnny Cochran
The Intruders
1970 · Bob Younger
The Young Lawyers
1969 · Aaron Silverman
Whiskey Flats
1969
Stranger on the Run
1967 · Larkin
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones
1966 · Jesse
TV shows (22)
Body Language
2008 · Director
Chromiumblue.com
2002 · Director, Creator
Wind on Water
1998 · Director, Executive Producer, Creator
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Red Shoe Diaries
1992 · Director, Producer, Writer, Story, Executive Producer, Teleplay
American Playhouse
1982 · Paul
Charlie's Angels
1976 · Harry Owens
The Young Lawyers
1970
Then Came Bronson
1969 · Jack Warren
Land of the Giants
1968 · Nick
Adam-12
1968 · The Man
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Cimarron Strip
1967
Ironside
1967
The F.B.I.
1965 · Bernie Voyt
The Loner
1965
The Legend of Jesse James
1965 · Cincy
The Munsters
1964
Daniel Boone
1964 · Evans, Meshach Tarbot
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · Gregory Haymish
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Fish
Gunsmoke
1955 · Billy Coe, Joey Jeffords, Jack Stone, Muley, Willy Groom