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Samuel Z. Arkoff, the low-budget movie mogul who enticed two generations of teenagers into drive-in theaters with movies like I Was a Teenage Werewolf and Wild in the Streets, died on Sunday in Burbank, Calif.
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.
Sep 19, 2001 · Samuel Z. Arkoff, the low-budget movie mogul who enticed two generations of teenagers into drive-in theaters with movies like ''I Was a Teenage Werewolf'' and ''Wild in the Streets,'' died on...
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.
Sep 18, 2001 · Samuel Z. Arkoff, who in some ways invented modern Hollywood, died Sunday of natural causes in a Burbank hospital. The co-founder of American-International Pictures and the godfather of the beach party and teenage werewolf movies was 83.
Sep 19, 2001 · Samuel Z. Arkoff, the producer of hundreds of quickie, inexpensive B films, including “I Was a Teenage Werewolf,” “A Bucket of Blood” and “Reform School Girl,” died Sunday. He was 83. Mr....
Sep 16, 2001 · Samuel Z. Arkoff is known as an Executive Producer, Producer, Actor, Presenter, and Co-Executive Producer. Some of his work includes The Haunting, Dressed to Kill, The Amityville Horror, The Last Man on Earth, Q, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, and Futureworld.
Find the location of Samuel Z. Arkoff's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, read a biography, see related stars and browse a map of important places in their career. Born June 12, 1918 in Fort...
Sep 16, 2001 · Arkoff is the co-founder (with James H. Nicholson) of American International Pictures and has served as producer or executive on over 200 of the low-budget exploitation films--monster movies, motorcycle films and beach-party pictures geared to the teenage audience--that made the studio famous.
Iowa-born law school graduate Samuel Z. Arkoff and his late partner James H. Nicholson, although they never directed movies, were among the most important low-budget producers of the late 1950s as founders of American International Pictures (originally known as American Releasing Corporation).
