Alex de Renzy

Who was Alex de Renzy?

Alexander de Renzy was an American director and producer of pornographic movies.

Born in New York, de Renzy served in the United States Air Force, as a Survival Instructor. Back in the United States, he began making documentary films in San Francisco. In October 1969 he went to Denmark to attend Sex 69, the first porn trade show hosted in Copenhagen after the legalization of adult pornography there. This resulted in his first movie, Pornography in Denmark, which was released the following year.

Alex de Renzy not only filmed hot sex scenes but he also endeavored to tell a story. He was the editor on Sexual Encounter Group, was cinematographer on seven movies and wrote five screenplays. His production Lady Freaks introduced porn star legend Annette Haven. His films also include the two 1970s porn classics Babyface and Pretty Peaches.

Another de Renzy discovery was Desireé Cousteau. She won the Adult Film Association of America award in 1978 for 'Best Actress' for her starring role in Pretty Peaches and became an international sex star. The plot of Pretty Peaches derives from Voltaire's literary classic Candide about a naive young woman undergoing a series of hardships which constitute the satire. But de Renzy's film is more high camp than high art. Peaches contains a notorious enema scene in which the powerful jet-spray from Cousteau's hindquarters knocks the administering physician to the bathroom floor, to which Peaches bemoans "I don't think he could cure anything!"