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Motion Picture Producer. He was a movie producer who created more than 500 low-budget, and often highly-profitable, cult movies. Among his best known releases were Dressed To Kill, The Amityville Horror, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, and the Beach Blanket series of movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.
A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded AIP (then called American Releasing Corporation) on a $3000 loan in 1954 with his partner, James H. Nicholson, a former West Coast exhibitor and distributor. The company made its mark by targeting teenagers with quickly produced films that exploited subjects mainstream films were reluctant to tackle.
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Arkoff International Pictures was a film production company set up by Samuel Z. Arkoff, co-founder of American International Pictures (AIP). Arkoff sold AIP to Filmways in 1979, which he later described as "a giant mistake ...
Samuel Z. Arkoff (1918-2001) was an American producer who co-founded American International Pictures with James H. Nicholson. He has worked with some of the most notable B-movie filmmakers, including Alex Gordon, Roger Corman, and Bert I. Gordon.
Samuel Z. Arkoff. Producer: Dressed to Kill. By the early 1950s, future movie mogul Samuel Z. Arkoff was a brash 30-ish lawyer scratching out a living by representing his in-laws and the Hollywood fringe, which included many of now infamous director/angora-clad transvestite Edward D. Wood Jr.'s social circle.
Samuel Zachary Arkoff (June 12, 1918 – September 16, 2001) was an American producer of B movies. Arkoff was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Russian Jewish parents. He was the son of Helen (Lurie) and Louis Arkoff, who ran his Louis Clothing Co. Arkoff first studied to be a lawyer. He began his career in Hollywood as a producer of The Hank McCune Show, a seminal sitcom produced in 1951. In 1954, James H. Nicholson founded the American Releasing Corporation, which later became known as American ...
