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Samuel Z. Arkoff (1918–2001)

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By the early 1950's, 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. As a shark, Arkoff was physically imposing and capable of scaring the snot out of anyone who opposed him... See full bio »

Born:

Samuel Zachary Arkoff
in Fort Dodge, Iowa, USA

Died:

(age 83) in Burbank, California, USA
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2002 Teenage Caveman (TV movie) (executive producer)
 
2001 Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature (TV movie) (executive producer)
 
2001 The Day the World Ended (TV movie) (executive producer)
 
2001 How to Make a Monster (TV movie) (executive producer)
 
2001 Earth vs. the Spider (TV movie) (executive producer)
 
1999 The Haunting (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1985 Hellhole (executive producer)
 
1984 Up the Creek (executive producer)
 
1983 The Final Terror (executive producer)
 
1982 Q (executive producer)
 
1980 Dressed to Kill (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1980 The Earthling (producer - uncredited)
 
1980 How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (executive producer)
 
1979 C.H.O.M.P.S (executive producer)
 
1979 The Amityville Horror (executive producer)
 
1979 California Dreaming (executive producer)
 
1979 The Visitor (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1978 Our Winning Season (executive producer)
 
1977 The Island of Dr. Moreau (executive producer)
 
1977 The People That Time Forgot (executive producer - as Samuel Z.Arkoff)
 
1977 Empire of the Ants (executive producer)
 
1976 The Town That Dreaded Sundown (executive producer)
 
1976 A Matter of Time (executive producer)
 
1976 Futureworld (executive producer)
 
1976 The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday (executive producer)
 
1976 The Food of the Gods (executive producer)
 
1976 Street People (executive producer)
 
1976 Dragonfly (executive producer)
 
1975 Return to Macon County (executive producer)
 
1975 The Land That Time Forgot (producer - uncredited)
 
1975 Hennessy (executive producer)
 
1975 Cooley High (executive producer)
 
1975 The Wild Party (executive producer)
 
1974 Abby (executive producer)
 
1974 Madhouse (executive producer)
 
1974 Sugar Hill (executive producer)
 
1973 Hell Up in Harlem (executive producer)
 
1973 Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (executive producer)
 
1973 Heavy Traffic (producer)
 
1973 Dillinger (executive producer)
 
1973 Scream Blacula Scream (executive producer)
 
1973 Coffy (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1972 Blacula (executive producer)
 
1972 Slaughter (executive producer)
 
1972 Dr. Phibes Rises Again (executive producer)
 
1972 Boxcar Bertha (executive producer - uncredited, producer - uncredited)
 
1972 Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (producer)
 
1972 Baron Blood (executive producer)
 
1971 Bunny O'Hare (executive producer)
 
1971 Murders in the Rue Morgue (executive producer)
 
1971 Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (executive producer)
 
1971 The Abominable Dr. Phibes (executive producer)
 
1970 Up in the Cellar (producer)
 
1970 Yog: Monster from Space (producer - US version)
 
1970 Cry of the Banshee (producer)
 
1970 Wuthering Heights (producer)
 
1970 Dorian Gray (executive producer)
 
1970 Bloody Mama (executive producer)
 
1970 The Dunwich Horror (executive producer)
 
1970 An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (executive producer)
 
1969 De Sade (producer)
 
1969 Chastity (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1968 Three in the Attic (producer)
 
1968 The Savage Seven (executive producer)
 
1968 Witchfinder General (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1968 Wild in the Streets (producer)
 
1967 Devil's Angels (executive producer)
 
1967 Thunder Alley (executive producer)
 
1966 The Big T.N.T. Show (documentary) (executive producer)
 
1966 Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (executive producer)
 
1966 The Wild Angels (executive producer)
 
1966 Fireball 500 (producer)
 
1966 The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (producer)
 
1966 Queen of Blood (producer)
 
1965 Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (producer)
 
1965 Die, Monster, Die! (executive producer)
 
1965 Planet of the Vampires (executive producer)
 
1965 Sergeant Dead Head (producer)
 
1965 Frankenstein Conquers the World (executive producer, producer - US version)
 
1965 How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (producer)
 
1965 Ski Party (co-executive producer - uncredited)
 
1965 City in the Sea (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1965 Beach Blanket Bingo (producer)
 
1964 Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens (producer)
 
1964 The Tomb of Ligeia (producer - uncredited)
 
1964 Pajama Party (producer)
 
1964 The Time Travelers (producer - uncredited)
 
1964 Dagora, the Space Monster (executive producer - US dubbed version)
 
1964 Bikini Beach (producer)
 
1964 Crypt of the Vampire (executive producer: US version)
 
1964 Muscle Beach Party (executive producer)
 
1964 The Last Man on Earth (executive producer)
 
1964 Rome Against Rome (executive producer)
 
1963 The Comedy of Terrors (producer)
 
1963 The Lost World of Sinbad (producer - english version)
 
1963 X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (executive producer)
 
1963 The Haunted Palace (executive producer)
 
1963 Beach Party (executive producer)
 
1963 Operation Bikini (executive producer)
 
1963 The Raven (executive producer)
 
1963 Summer Holiday (executive producer - US prints only)
 
1962 Fury of Achilles (producer)
 
1962 Panic in Year Zero! (executive producer)
 
1962 Tales of Terror (executive producer)
 
1962 Invasion of the Star Creatures (producer - uncredited)
 
1962 Burn, Witch, Burn (producer)
 
1962 Journey to the Seventh Planet (producer)
 
1962 Premature Burial (producer)
 
1961 Pit and the Pendulum (executive producer)
 
1961 Master of the World (executive producer)
 
1961 Reptilicus (producer)
 
1960 Space Men (executive producer)
 
1960 The Magic Land of Alakazam (producer - English version)
 
1960 Goliath and the Dragon (executive producer - English language version)
 
1960 Black Sunday (executive producer - U.S. version)
 
1960 Circus of Horrors (producer)
 
1959 A Bucket of Blood (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1959 Horrors of the Black Museum (producer)
 
1959 Paratroop Command (producer)
 
1958 Submarine Seahawk (executive producer)
 
1958 Earth vs. the Spider (executive producer)
 
1958 The Day the Sky Exploded (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1958 Teenage Cave Man (executive producer)
 
1958 High School Hellcats (executive producer)
 
1958 War of the Colossal Beast (executive producer)
 
1958 Machine-Gun Kelly (executive producer)
 
1958 The Bonnie Parker Story (producer)
 
1958 Suicide Battalion (executive producer)
 
1958 Terror from the Year 5000 (executive producer)
 
1957 The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (executive producer)
 
1957 The Amazing Colossal Man (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1957 Motorcycle Gang (executive producer)
 
1957 Reform School Girl (producer)
 
1957 Invasion of the Saucer Men (executive producer)
 
1957 Dragstrip Girl (executive producer)
 
1957 Voodoo Woman (executive producer)
 
1956 Runaway Daughters (executive producer)
 
1956 The She-Creature (executive producer)
 
1956 Girls in Prison (executive producer)
 
1956 It Conquered the World (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1950 The Hank McCune Show (TV series) (producer)
 
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1980 Dressed to Kill (presenter)
 
1980 The Earthling (presenter)
 
1980 Nothing Personal (presenter)
 
1980 Defiance (presenter)
 
1979 The Amityville Horror (presenter)
 
1979 Sunnyside (presenter)
 
1979 The Evictors (presenter)
 
1977 Grayeagle (presenter)
 
1977 Rolling Thunder (presenter)
 
1977 The Island of Dr. Moreau (presenter)
 
1977 The People That Time Forgot (presenter - as Samuel Z.Arkoff)
 
1977 Tentacles (presenter)
 
1976 Futureworld (presenter)
 
1976 The Food of the Gods (presenter)
 
1973 Little Cigars (presenter)
 
1972 Blacula (presenter)
 
1972 The Thing with Two Heads (presenter)
 
1972 Boxcar Bertha (presenter)
 
1972 Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (presenter)
 
1972 Frogs (presenter)
 
1971 The Abominable Dr. Phibes (presenter)
 
1970 Wuthering Heights (presenter)
 
1969 Two Gentlemen Sharing (presenter)
 
1969 Angel, Angel, Down We Go (presenter)
 
1968 Destroy All Monsters (presenter - US version)
 
1968 Gamela vs. Bairus (presenter - AIP-TV release)
 
1968 Psych-Out (presenter)
 
1967/II The Trip (presenter)
 
1967 The Born Losers (presenter)
 
1967 Thunder Alley (presenter)
 
1966 Fireball 500 (presenter)
 
1966 The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (presenter)
 
1965 The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot (TV short) (presenter)
 
1965 Die, Monster, Die! (presenter)
 
1965 Sergeant Dead Head (presenter)
 
1965 Frankenstein Conquers the World (presenter)
 
1965 Ski Party (presenter)
 
1965 Beach Blanket Bingo (presenter)
 
1964 Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon (presenter)
 
1964 Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens (presenter)
 
1964 Dagora, the Space Monster (presenter - USA dubbed version)
 
1964 The Masque of the Red Death (presenter)
 
1964 Muscle Beach Party (presenter)
 
1963 The Comedy of Terrors (presenter)
 
1963 Atragon (presenter - USA release)
 
1963 Matango (presenter)
 
1962 Lost Battalion (presenter)
 
1960 The Magic Land of Alakazam (presenter)
 
1959 Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (presenter)
 
1958 Hot Rod Gang (presenter)
 
1958 The Bonnie Parker Story (presenter)
 
1958 Attack of the Puppet People (presenter)
 
1958 Jet Attack (presenter)
 
1958 Terror from the Year 5000 (presenter)
 
1957 Blood of Dracula (presenter)
 
1957 The Amazing Colossal Man (presenter)
 
1957 I Was a Teenage Werewolf (presenter)
 
1957 Rock All Night (presents)
 
1955 Day the World Ended (presenter)
 
1955 The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (presenter)
 
Show ShowActor (2 titles)
1994 Runaway Daughters (TV movie)
Storekeeper (as Sam Arkoff)
 
1957 Naked Paradise
Sam (Man at Luau)
 
Show ShowThanks (9 titles)
2009 Frankenpimp (special thanks)
 
2007 Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (documentary) (special thanks)
 
2002 Teenage Caveman (TV movie) (in loving memory)
 
2001 How to Make a Monster (TV movie) (in loving memory of)
 
1999 Scream for Your Lives! William Castle and 'The Tingler' (video documentary short) (special thanks)
 
1994 The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters (TV documentary) (special thanks - as Sam Arkoff)
 
1990 Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (special thanks)
 
1987 Highway to Heaven (TV series) (acknowledgment: "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" footage courtesy of Arkoff International Pictures - 1 episode)
– I Was a Middle Aged Werewolf (1987) (acknowledgment: "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" footage courtesy of Arkoff International Pictures)
 
1984 The Stone Boy (special thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (20 titles)
2010 Midnight Madness: The History of Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Films (TV series documentary)
Himself
 
2007 The Fearmakers Collection (video documentary)
Himself
 
2001 Drive-in Movie Memories (documentary)
Himself
 
2001 It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2001 Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (documentary)
Himself
 
2000 Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1999 HBO First Look (TV series documentary)
Himself
– The Haunting (1999) … Himself (as Samuel Arkoff)
 
1999 E! True Hollywood Story (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Christopher Jones (1999) … Himself
 
1998 Some Nudity Required (documentary)
Himself
 
1998 Playboy: The Story of X (video documentary)
Himself - Distributor
 
1998 The Dark Side of Hollywood (documentary)
Himself (as Samuel Arkoff)
 
1997 Pitch (documentary)
Himself
 
1995 After Sunset: The Life & Times of the Drive-In Theater (video documentary)
Himself
 
1994 Conversations with Vincent (video documentary)
Narrator
 
1994 The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1993 The Troma System (short)
Himself
 
1992 Heartstoppers: Horror at the Movies (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1991 The Horror Hall of Fame II (TV movie)
Himself
 
1980 Billy Baxter Presents Diary of the Cannes Film Festival with Rex Reed (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1973 This Is Your Life (TV series)
Himself
– Vincent Price (1973) … Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (2 titles)
2008 The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff (video)
Himself
 
2002 The 74th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself (Memorial Tribute)
 

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Thou shalt not put too much money into one picture. And the money you do spend, put it on the screen; don't waste it on the egos of actors or on nonsense that might appeal to serve highbrow critics. See more »

Trivia:

Explained his "ARKOFF Formula" for making a successful movie, during a 1980s TV appearance: A good movie should include Action (excitement and drama), Revolution (controversial or revolutionary ideas), Killing (a degree of violence), Oratory (memorable speeches and dialogue), Fantasy (popular dreams and wishes acted out), and Fornication (sex appeal, to both sides). See more »

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Star Sign:

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