Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 th...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Kamikaze Love Volume 6 - Dangerous Desires
2021
Director, Writer
The steamy conclusion to this rollercoaster drama of part six of SexArt’s erotic classic "Kamikaze Love," directed by Hollywood legend Zalman King. An...
Kamikaze Love Volume 5 - Unexpected Pleasure
2021
Director, Writer
Immerse yourself in the rollercoaster drama of part five of SexArt’s erotic classic "Kamikaze Love," directed by Hollywood legend Zalman King. An impr...
Kamikaze Love Volume 4 - Exploring Together
2021
Director, Writer
Revel in the seductive thrill of part four of SexArt’s erotic classic "Kamikaze Love," directed by Hollywood legend Zalman King. An impressive cast in...
Kamikaze Love Volume 3 - Pushing Boundaries
2021
Director, Writer
Part three of SexArt’s erotic classic "Kamikaze Love," directed by Hollywood legend Zalman King. An impressive cast including top stars Elle Alexandra...
Kamikaze Love Volume 2 - Overwhelming Passion
2021
Director, Writer
Part two of SexArt’s erotic classic "Kamikaze Love," directed by Hollywood legend Zalman King. An impressive cast including top stars Elle Alexandra a...
Kamikaze Love Volume 1 - Craving Intensity
2021
Director, Writer
Victoria is a beautiful, young woman just beginning to succeed in L.A. as a jewelry designer. Then she meets Jack, a handsome and enormously rich entr...
March with the Devil
2014
Writer, Director
MARCH WITH THE DEVIL is the true story of Dominiquie Vandenberg who became a martial arts champion at a very early age until a tragic accident took ev...
Pleasure or Pain
2013
Director, Writer
A young designer falls under a man's erotic spell and is drawn into a world of sexual abandon from which she may never return.
The Beaches of Agnès
2008
as Self
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with t...
Body Language
2008
Director
Filmed on location in a particular strip club. It follows the strippers/dancers and the drama from the inside point of view. The movie combines the s...
Saint Francis
2007
as Dr. P. Bernard
Francis, the son of a corrupt TV preacher, tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit-hole of sex, drugs, aliens, fratricide, and planetary apocalypse in thi...
The Foreign Eye
2006
as Self
Fantasies and clichés about Brazil and Brazilians as reinforced by international films, even those actually shot in Brazil. This documentary features ...
Dance with the Devil
2006
Producer, Director
Features concert footage and a backstage look at legendary underground Los Angeles nightclub act The Toledo Show.
Crazy Again
2006
Director
Texas Music Hall of Fame inductee Dale Watson suffers a breakdown after the death of his girlfriend.
Zalman King's Sex, Y & Z
2003
Director
Taking the baddest boys, the naughtiest girls, the craziest stunts and the wildest parties and shoving them in your face up close and personal. From t...
Gypsy Love
2002
Director
A feature compilation comprised of three episodes of Zalman King's ChromiumBlue.com. Gypsy Love: When Ellen falls in love with two gorgeous gypsy brot...
The Eternal
2002
Director
A feature compilation comprised of two episodes of Zalman King's ChromiumBlue.com. The Eternal and The Eternal II: Maria has been searching in vain fo...
Cover Me Girls
2002
Director
A feature compilation comprised of three episodes of Zalman King's ChromiumBlue.com. Cover Me Girls: Sid has had every cowboy in the wild west and is ...
ChromiumBlue.com
2002
Director, Executive Producer
Vivian Vadim is a successful fashion stylist in complete charge of her life. Then she meets Henry. He's handsome, charming and very, very rich. Women ...
Women of the Night
2001
Director, Writer
Three entwined stories of love, lust, danger and revenge.
Shame, Shame, Shame
1999
Director
A woman, carrying out a project about the sexuality of males and females, is forced to confront a secret from her childhood.
Red Shoe Diaries 8: Night of Abandon
1998
Story
Night of Abandon: A wild blissful night in Brazil during Carnival. Liar's Tale: A burned out photojournalist's obsession with a high-class call girl ...
A Place Called Truth
1998
Story, Executive Producer
Love, pride and jealousy are aroused when a ranch owner's daughter, called Lizzie, has an affair with a cowboy. Meanwhile a mysterious woman seduces t...
In God's Hands
1998
Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay
Three pro surfers - gifted Shane, once-great Mickey and rising young star Keoni travel to Madagascar, Bali and Hawaii in search for the ultimate wave.
Playboy: The Story of X
1998
as Self - Producer
The Story Of X takes you to the earliest days of adult films when men peddled stag reels and projectors out of the trunks of their cars, then through ...
Black Sea 213
1998
Story, Executive Producer
Mercenaries selling nuclear arms on the black market pose as models so they can set up an innocent photographer to take the blame.
Business for Pleasure
1997
Producer, Story, Screenplay
A voyeuristic tycoon orchestrates a risky, passion-charged triangle between himself, his right-hand man, and a beautiful executive. Another classy, er...
Female Perversions
1997
Executive Producer
Eve Stephens, a beautiful and sexy high-powered attorney, is up for appointment as a judge. But below her veneer of self-confidence lies a darker side...
Red Shoe Diaries 6: How I Met My Husband
1996
Story, Executive Producer
Three separate episodes of the Red Shoe Diaries (1992) tv series - "How I Met My Husband", "Naked in the Moonlight" and "Midnight Bells" - edited toge...
Red Shoe Diaries 5: Weekend Pass
1995
Executive Producer, Teleplay
Evan, a beautiful bounty hunter after a seductively handsome and charming con man who makes his living using his looks and wit to defraud women of the...
Delta of Venus
1995
Director
A struggling American writer and a fellow American expatriate begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of ...
Boca
1994
Director, Executive Producer
A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.
Return to Two Moon Junction
1994
Characters
There's a special place in Georgia called Two Moon Junction. It's known for its power of seduction and for awakening the sense with an unquenchable se...
Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica
1994
Director, Executive Producer
A sultry Italian maid unlocks a couple's secret chamber and unleashes a private fantasy. An architect is lured by a mysterious beauty into a torrid ga...
Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick
1993
Executive Producer, Director, Teleplay
Just Like That: A receptionist in a large firm cheats on her voyeuristic lover with a delivery boy who has a crush on her. Another Woman's Lipstick: A...
Red Shoe Diaries 2: Double Dare
1993
Teleplay, Executive Producer, Director
A cab ride with a dangerously seductive stranger ignites a steamy, purely sexual affair for a woman torn between her hunger for lust and her passion f...
Lake Consequence
1993
Executive Producer, Writer
A repressed housewife is plunged into erotic ecstasy by the arrival of a handsome groundskeeper. At a remote lake, she is encouraged by the groundskee...
Red Shoe Diaries
1992
Screenplay, Director, Executive Producer
A man grieving the loss of his fiancée discovers a diary she kept that details a side of her he never knew. In an effort to understand, he reaches out...
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
1991
Screenplay, Director
Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies, and now Blue must support herself somehow. Elle, the h...
Wild Orchid
1989
Screenplay, Director
A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.
Wildfire
1988
Writer, Director
Since they met the first time in boarding school as little kids, it was obvious that the orphans Kay and Dave would become a couple. But at sixteen, D...
Two Moon Junction
1988
Screenplay, Director, Story
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugg...
Siesta
1987
Executive Producer
American Claire wakes up blood-soaked and bruised at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state, she has flashbacks from the ...
Nine 1/2 Weeks
1986
Screenplay, Producer
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life,...
Endangered Species
1982
as Hollywood Producer
A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.
Endangered Species
1982
Executive Producer
A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.
Galaxy of Terror
1981
as Baelon
As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as ...
Tell Me a Riddle
1980
as Paul
A long-married couple embark on one last cross-country journey when it is discovered that the wife is dying. Together they try to reconnect with their...
Roadie
1980
Executive Producer
A young Texas good ol' boy has a knack with electronic equipment, and that talent gets him a job as a roadie with a raucous traveling rock-and-roll sh...
Like Normal People
1979
as Bill Stein
An intellectually-challenged man and woman meet, fall in love, and are determined to get married, despite the initial objections of their families and...
Blue Sunshine
1977
as Jerry Zipkin
At a party, someone goes insane and murders three women. Falsely accused of the brutal killings, Jerry is on the run. More bizarre homicides continue ...
The Passover Plot
1976
as Yeshua of Nazareth
Yeshua of Nazareth carefully plans his own crucifixion — and subsequent resurrection — to strengthen his political position against the Roman occupati...
Sammy Somebody
1976
A restaurateur unwisely misappropriates mob money in order to buy a house for his ageing father.
Trip with the Teacher
1975
as Al
A high-school field trip takes a nightmarish turn when the students' bus breaks down and thugs come to their aid.
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
1974
as Roy St. John
David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of two pilots preceding his memorable Harry O series....
Some Call It Loving
1973
as Robert Troy
A jazz musician falls in love with a comatose woman at a carny sideshow and takes her to his mansion to join his cabinet of sexual curiosities.
Neither by Day Nor by Night
1972
as Adam
An American soldier is wounded in Israel and slowly begins to lose his sight while hospitalized.
You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat
1971
as Carter Fields
This oddball counterculture comedy/drama follows Zalman King through a series of kooky misadventures while he searches for his life's purpose in New Y...
The Ski Bum
1971
as Johnny Cochran
A ski instructor tries to teach a bunch of insanely eccentric people how to ski while dealing with everyone wanting his attention.
The Intruders
1970
as Bob Younger
The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost both his nerve and his gun skills, to stop them.
The Young Lawyers
1969
as Aaron Silverman
Attorney Michael Cannon leaves his Boston law firm to become director of the Neighborhood Law Office, where he guides three law students on a case inv...
Whiskey Flats
1969
"...an impressive dark comedy about a young film student at UCLA who is as much in love with the idea of being a director as he is with himself. At a ...
Stranger on the Run
1967
as Larkin
A drifter finds himself wrongly accused of murder by a power-crazed sheriff. The sheriff gives him a horse, some supplies, and a one-hour head start i...
The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones
1966
as Jesse
A dying marshal deputizes a drifter to deliver the two killers in his custody to prison. However, the new deputy must elude a pair of bounty hunters w...