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- Samuel Zachary Arkoff (1918 – 2001) was an American producer of B movies. His films were mostly low-budget, with production completed in a few days, though nearly all of them became profitable.
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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.
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- Fort Dodge, Iowa, USA
- January 1, 1
- Burbank, California, USA
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.
- June 12, 1918
- September 16, 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...
Samuel Zachary Arkoff was an American film producer, known as the co-founder of American International Pictures.
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, Futureworld, and The Abominable Dr. Phibes.
Samuel Zachary Arkoff was an American producer of B movies.Life and careerArkoff was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Russian-Jewish parents. He was the son of ...
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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.
