Director Zalman King, author "Nine and a half weeks" and "Wild orchid", died

Director Zalman King, known, first of all, by the film "Nine and a half weeks" and the television series "Diaries of the Red Speech", died in California after a long fight against cancer at the 70th year of life, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Reuters.

The death of the filmmaker was reported by his son -in -law Ellison Burnet. "Zalman was an extraordinary man and an artist, much more multifaceted ... than it might seem to those who knew him only from afar," Bernett said.

One of the first to the sad news reacted to actor Charlie Shin, according to whom, in the person of King, "the world has lost a noble and amazing soul."

Zalman King, whose real name was Lefkovitz, was born in 1942 in the American state of New Jersey in a family of immigrants from the Russian Empire. King’s film career began in the 1960s with a role in the Gunsmoke series. Since the beginning of the 1980s, King switched to directorial and production activities.

He was brought by the production of the paintings “Nine and a half weeks” (1986), “The merger of the two Moon” (1988), “Wild Orchid” (1989), “Lake of Love” (1993) and the television series “Diaries” of the Red Speech (starting from 1992). According to the son -in -law). The tape "widely closed eyes" with Tom Cruz and Nicole Kidman, as he wanted to learn to make erotic cinema.

In 1971 and in 1987, King was nominated for the Golden Globe.