Radley Metzger

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Radley Metzger (born January 21, 1929) is an American filmmaker, distributor and producer. He is also known by his pseudonym Henry Paris, a name he adopted in the 1970s when he began to direct films with explicit hardcore sexual content.

Metzger was born in New York City. In his early career, he was a film editor, working on such films as The Flesh Eaters, and providing censor cuts for European films like Bitter Rice. He also edited several trailers, quite a number of them for the films of Ingmar Bergman.

As an auteur, he is considered by his fans to be among the more stylish directors of the sexploitation and porn chic eras. He often shot films in Europe and collaborated a number of times with cinematographer Hans Jura.

Metzger retired from filmmaking in 1984.

1 Selected filmography
2 Awards
3 Literature
4 External links

[edit] Selected filmography

Carmen, Baby (1967)
Therese and Isabelle (1968)
Camille 2000 (1969)
The Lickerish Quartet (1970)
Score (1972)
Naked Came the Stranger (1975)
The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1975)
The Image (1975)
The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann (1975)
Barbara Broadcast (1977)
The Cat and the Canary (1977)

[edit] Awards

In 1976 The Opening of Misty Beethoven won the first Award of the Adult Film Association of America (AVN Award) in the categories Best Director (as Henry Paris), Best Film and Best Actor (Jamie Gillis). In 2002 the production won Best Classic Release on DVD.

[edit] Literature

Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne: The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry. Regan Books, 1. Aufl., 2006. ISBN 0-060096-60-8