One of the pioneers of the American adult cinema, Radley Metzger was born in New York. He first made a name in erotic cinema by importing and distributing European potboilers, including the Danish sex film "I, A Woman" (1966). At around the same time, Metzger decided to direct his own features, which quickly became renowned for their strong sense of composition, high-tone locations, and edgy, erotic subject matter. Among his best-known soft-core features are "Therese and Isabelle" (1968), "Carmen, Baby" (1967) and "Camille 2000" (1969), all of which were shot in Europe. Other notable Metzger films of the period include "The Lickerish Quarter" (1970), "Little Mother" (1972), and "Score" (1974). Once hard-core came to dominate the U. S. adult film market after "Deep Throat"(1972), Metzger directed several highly-regard explicit features using the pseudonym "Henry Paris," including such films as "The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann" (1975), "Naked Came the Stranger" (1975), "The Opening of Misty Beethoven" (1976), and "Barbara Broadcast" (1977).