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Samuel Z. Arkoff

Samuel Zachary Arkoff, more than any other producer, created the concept of genre films that particularly attracted the youth of America from 1954 on. Many of the estimated 500 features he produced or co-produced and/or distributed are popular today on television, cable, and for rental or purchase.

Aliases
  • Samuel Z Arkoff
English
Filmography
  • Born In Fort Dodge, Iowa, USA
  • Born June 12, 1918
  • Died September 16, 2001
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The Dark Side of Hollywood

1998
as Samuel Z. Arkoff

Conversations with Vincent

1994
as Samuel Z. Arkoff

Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins

2014
as Self (archive footage)

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

2001
as Samuel Z. Arkoff

The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters

1994
as Samuel Z. Arkoff

Pitch

1997
as Himself

Drive-In Movie Memories

2001
as Samuel Z. Arkoff

The Troma System

1993
as Himself

74th Academy Awards Opening Film

2002
as Self - Memorial Tribute

Some Nudity Required

1998
as Himself

The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff

2008
as Samuel Z. Arkoff

After Sunset: The Life & Times of the Drive-In Theater

1995
as Himself

Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre

2000
as Himself

Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies

2001
as Himself

Producer

Movie The Haunting 1999
Movie The Amityville Horror 1979
Movie Scream Blacula Scream 1973
Movie Our Winning Season 1978
Movie Beach Party 1963
Movie Street People 1976
Movie Dragstrip Girl 1957
Movie Here Come the Tigers 1978
Movie Machine-Gun Kelly 1958
Movie It Conquered the World 1956
Movie Reptilicus 1961
Movie Bunny O'Hare 1971
Movie The Abominable Dr. Phibes 1971
Movie Sugar Hill 1974
Movie The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent 1957
Movie Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? 1971
Movie The Food of the Gods 1976
Movie Godzilla vs. Hedorah 1971
Movie The Town That Dreaded Sundown 1976
Movie Slaughter 1972
Movie Devil's Angels 1967
Movie Hellhole 1985
Movie Journey to the Seventh Planet 1962
Movie Cry of the Banshee 1970
Movie Earth vs. the Spider 1958
Movie The Comedy of Terrors 1963
Movie Queen of Blood 1966
Movie Escape from Angola 1976
Movie The Haunted Palace 1964
Movie Empire of the Ants 1977
Movie Terror from the Year 5000 1958
Movie Wuthering Heights 1970
Movie Blacula 1972
Movie The Pit and the Pendulum 1961
Movie Dressed to Kill 1980
Movie The Bonnie Parker Story 1958
Movie Paratroop Command 1959
Movie The Big T.N.T. Show 1966
Movie Muscle Beach Party 1964
Movie Hell Up In Harlem 1973
Movie Reform School Girl 1957
Movie X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes 1963
Movie Teenage Caveman 2002
Movie Tales of Terror 1962
Movie Baron Blood 1972
Movie Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine 1965
Movie The She-Creature 1956
Movie The Premature Burial 1962
Movie Outlaw Treasure 1955
Movie She Creature 2001
Movie Voodoo Woman 1957
Movie Planet of the Vampires 1965
Movie Dr. Phibes Rises Again 1972
Movie Invasion of the Saucer-Men 1957
Movie The People That Time Forgot 1977
Movie Space Men 1960
Movie Murders in the Rue Morgue 1971
Movie High School Hellcats 1958
Movie Frankenstein Conquers the World 1965
Movie Rome Against Rome 1964
Movie Dillinger 1973
Movie The Island of Dr. Moreau 1977
Movie Madhouse 1974
Movie Operation Bikini 1963
Movie The Savage Seven 1968
Movie Circus of Horrors 1960
Movie Three in the Attic 1968
Movie Fury of Achilles 1962
Movie Tank Commandos 1959
Movie Night of the Eagle 1962
Movie Submarine Seahawk 1958
Movie The Amazing Colossal Man 1957
Movie Dorian Gray 1970
Movie The Last Man on Earth 1964
Movie Rapt au deuxième bureau 1958
Movie Record City 1977
Movie Dragonfly 1976
Movie Die, Monster, Die! 1965
Movie How to Beat the High Co$t of Living 1980
Movie Fireball 500 1966
Movie Coffy 1973
Movie War of the Colossal Beast 1958
Movie The Earthling 1980
Movie Horrors of the Black Museum 1959
Movie Futureworld 1976
Movie Up in the Cellar 1970
Movie Panic in Year Zero! 1962
Movie De Sade 1969
Movie An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe 1970
Movie Wild in the Streets 1968

Crew

Movie Terror from the Year 5000 1958
Movie Space Men 1960
Movie Three in the Attic 1968
Movie The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot 1965

Guest Star

Episode E! True Hollywood Story
Christopher Jones 		1999