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Lee Frost(1935-2007)

  • Director
  • Writer
  • Cinematographer
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Lee Frost rates highly as one of the best, most talented and versatile filmmakers in the annals of exploitation cinema. Frost was born on August 14, 1935, in Globe, Arizona. He grew up in Glendale, California, and Oahu, Hawaii. He eventually wound up in Hollywood, where he started his career making TV commercials for the studio Telepics. Frost made his film debut with the early 1960s nudie cutie Surftide 77 (1962). He went on to make a slew of films in many different genres: tongue-in-cheek horror comedy (House on Bare Mountain (1962)), mondo shock documentaries (Hollywood's World of Flesh (1963), Mondo Bizarro (1966), Mondo Freudo (1966)), perverse softcore roughies (The Defilers (1965), The Animal (1968)), crime drama (The Pick-Up (1968)), westerns (Hot Spur (1968), The Scavengers (1969)) and even Nazisploitation (Love Camp 7 (1969), which has been widely cited as the prototype for the notorious Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975)). A majority of Frost's 1960s features were made for legendary trash flick producer Bob Cresse. Moreover, Lee added sex inserts into such foreign films as London in the Raw (1964), Night Women (1964) and Witchcraft '70 (1969). Frost continued cranking out entertainingly sleazy drive-in items throughout the 1970s; they include the startling psycho sniper outing Zero in and Scream (1971), the passable biker opus Chrome and Hot Leather (1971), the gritty Chain Gang Women (1971), the hilariously campy The Thing with Two Heads (1972), the immensely enjoyable Policewomen (1974), the gnarly blaxploitation winner The Black Gestapo (1975), the rowdy redneck romp Dixie Dynamite (1976) and the jolting roughie porno shocker A Climax of Blue Power (1974). Frost often cast former football player Phil Hoover in his 1970s movies and frequently collaborated with producer/screenwriter Wes Bishop (in addition to their own pictures, Frost and Bishop wrote the script for Jack Starrett's terrific Race with the Devil (1975), which Frost was originally supposed to direct as well). Both Frost and Bishop often appear as actors, usually in small parts, in Frost's films. Lee worked as an editor on industrial movies for a film laboratory throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. His last feature was the straight-to-video Shannon Whirry erotic thriller Private Obsession (1995).

Lee Frost died at age 71 on May 25, 2007.
BornAugust 14, 1935
DiedMay 25, 2007(71)
BornAugust 14, 1935
DiedMay 25, 2007(71)
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Known for

Chain Gang Women (1971)
Chain Gang Women
3.9
  • Director
  • 1971
Policewomen (1974)
Policewomen
5.2
  • Director
  • 1974
The Pick-Up (1968)
The Pick-Up
6.7
  • Director(as R.L. Frost)
  • 1968
A Climax of Blue Power
5.6
  • Director(as F.C. Perl)
  • 1974

Credits

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Director

  • Shannon Whirry in Private Obsession (1995)
    Private Obsession
  • Mickey Thompson: Man in the Steel Cage (1985)
    Mickey Thompson: Man in the Steel Cage
  • Sweet Dreams, Suzan
    • (as Leoni Valentino)
  • Sweet Captive
    • (as Leoni Valentino)
  • Dixie Dynamite (1976)
    Dixie Dynamite
  • Fabulous Fanny (1975)
    Fabulous Fanny
  • The Black Gestapo (1975)
    The Black Gestapo
  • A Climax of Blue Power
    • (as F.C. Perl)
  • Angela Carnon in Poor Cecily (1974)
    Poor Cecily
    • (as F.C. Perl)
  • Policewomen (1974)
    Policewomen
  • Ray Milland and Roosevelt Grier in The Thing with Two Heads (1972)
    The Thing with Two Heads
  • Surftide Female Factory
  • Two for the Money
    • (as Robert Lee)
  • Chrome and Hot Leather (1971)
    Chrome and Hot Leather
  • Chain Gang Women (1971)
    Chain Gang Women

Writer

  • Shannon Whirry in Private Obsession (1995)
    Private Obsession
  • Dixie Dynamite (1976)
    Dixie Dynamite
  • Race with the Devil (1975)
    Race with the Devil
  • The Black Gestapo (1975)
    The Black Gestapo
  • Policewomen (1974)
    Policewomen
  • Ray Milland and Roosevelt Grier in The Thing with Two Heads (1972)
    The Thing with Two Heads
  • Surftide Female Factory
  • Two for the Money
    • (as Robert Lee)
  • Chain Gang Women (1971)
    Chain Gang Women
  • The Pick-Up (1968)
    The Pick-Up
    • (as R.L. Frost)
  • Hot Spur (1968)
    Hot Spur
    • (as R.L. Frost)
  • Mondo Bizarro (1966)
    Mondo Bizarro
    • (as David Kayne)
  • Arline Hunter in Surftide 77 (1962)
    Surftide 77
    • (as R.L. Frost)

Cinematographer

  • Dixie Dynamite (1976)
    Dixie Dynamite
    • (photographed by)
  • A Climax of Blue Power
  • Chrome and Hot Leather (1971)
    Chrome and Hot Leather
    • (photographed by)
  • Chain Gang Women (1971)
    Chain Gang Women
  • The Sex Killer (1965)
    Zero in and Scream
    • (photographed by)
  • Love Camp 7 (1969)
    Love Camp 7
    • (as R.L. Frost, photographed by)
  • The Pick-Up (1968)
    The Pick-Up
    • (as R.L. Frost, photographed by)
  • Hot Spur (1968)
    Hot Spur
  • Ecco (1963)
    The Forbidden
    • (uncredited)
  • Love Is a Four Letter Word (1966)
    Love Is a Four Letter Word
    • (as R.L. Frost)
  • The Defilers (1965)
    The Defilers
    • (as R.L. Frost)

Personal details

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    • August 14, 1935
    • Globe, Arizona, USA
    • May 25, 2007
    • New Orleans, Louisiana, USA(heart attack)

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    I never went to film school or anything like that.

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