Directing
Community Rating
6.8
TMDB estimate
Zale Dalen, AKA David James Scott, started his career in the film business as a script writer (“Another Smith for Paradise” directed by Tom Shandell in 1972) assistant editor, soundman, editor, and sponsored/educational film director. His big break came in 1976 with the funding of his first feature film, “Skip Tracer”. Since then he has directed four more Canadian features – “The Hounds of Notre Dame”, “Terminal City Ricochet”, “Expect No Mercy”, and “Passion” – two of which are considered Canadian classics, one of which was a job of work made for the exploitation market in third world countries, and one of which, “Passion”. is a work of pure genius that remains totally unrecognized. Along the way he directed two made for TV movies – “Anything to Survive” and “On Thin Ice, the Tai Babalonia Story” – and quite a few episodes of television series like Alfred Hitchcock, Wiseguy, Scene of the Crime, Friday’s Curse, Kung Fu the Legend Continues, Beachcombers and For the Record.

Passion
as Director
1999

Expect No Mercy
as Director
1995

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
as Director
1993

Street Justice
as Director
1991

On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story
as Director
1990

Terminal City Ricochet
as Director
1990

Anything to Survive
as Director
1990

Friday the 13th: The Series
as Director
1987

J.J. Starbuck
as Director
1987

Wiseguy
as Director
1987

21 Jump Street
as Director
1987

Danger Bay
as Director
1985

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Director
1985

Airwolf
as Director
1984

Hounds of Notre Dame
as Director
1980

Skip Tracer
as Director, Editor, Screenplay
1977
Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance
as Sound Recordist
1975