Zalman King
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Zalman King (born 1941 in Trenton, New Jersey, USA) is a film director, writer, actor and producer. Born Zalman Lefkovitz, King 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, and 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, and the television series and film ChromiumBlue.com. Perhaps King's best work as director was the 1995 film Delta of Venus based on the book by Anais 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.
As a young man, Zalman King played the outlaw Muley in 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.
He is married to writer/producer Patricia Louisianna Knop.
