Samuel Z. Arkoff
Highest Rated: 93% Dillinger (1973)
Lowest Rated: 8% The Incredible Melting Man (1978)
Birthday: Jun 12, 1918
Birthplace: Fort Dodge, Iowa, USA
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. Arkoff also gave fresh talent such as Francis Ford Coppola ("Dementia 13" 1963), Martin Scorsese ("Boxcar Bertha" 1972) and Woody Allen ("What's Up, Tiger Lily?" 1966) the opportunity to direct some of their early feature films. In 1980, he sold AIP and formed his own companies, Samuel Z. Arkoff Pictures and Arkoff International Pictures. Arkoff wrote his memoirs, "Flying Through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants" in 1992. His son, Louis, is also a producer.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Some Nudity Required | Self | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | Runaway Daughters | Storekeeper (Character) | - | 1994 |
| 33% | 25% | The Final Terror | Executive Producer | - | 1983 |
| 73% | 43% | Q | Executive Producer | - | 1982 |
| 81% | 74% | Dressed to Kill | Executive Producer | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | Something Short of Paradise | Executive Producer | - | 1979 |
| 32% | 52% | The Amityville Horror | Executive Producer | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | How to Beat the High Cost of Living | Executive Producer | - | 1979 |
| 8% | 24% | The Incredible Melting Man | Executive Producer | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cracking Up | Executive Producer | - | 1977 |
| 63% | 30% | A Matter of Time |
Producer, Executive Producer |
- | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | Street People | Executive Producer | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | Chatterbox | Executive Producer | - | 1976 |
| 42% | 40% | The Town That Dreaded Sundown | Executive Producer | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | Hennessy | Executive Producer | - | 1975 |
| 88% | 89% | Cooley High | Executive Producer | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Return to Macon County | Executive Producer | - | 1975 |
| 63% | 48% | The Zombies of Sugar Hill | Executive Producer | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | Abby | Executive Producer | - | 1974 |
| 22% | 50% | Hell up in Harlem | Executive Producer | - | 1973 |
| 93% | 74% | Dillinger | Executive Producer | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 32% | Slaughter's Big Rip-Off | Executive Producer | - | 1973 |
| 60% | 44% | Who Slew Auntie Roo? | Producer | - | 1972 |
| 46% | 43% | Blacula | Executive Producer | - | 1972 |
| 88% | 75% | The Abominable Dr. Phibes | Executive Producer | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Bunny O'Hare | Executive Producer | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | The Secret of Dorian Gray | Executive Producer | - | 1970 |
| 64% | 63% | Wuthering Heights | Producer | - | 1970 |
| 11% | 25% | De Sade | Producer | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | The Savage Seven | Executive Producer | - | 1968 |
| 67% | 52% | Wild in the Streets | Producer | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Devil's Angels | Executive Producer | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | Thunder Alley | Executive Producer | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 48% | The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini | Producer | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs | Executive Producer | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | Fireball 500 | Producer | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Frankenstein Conquers the World |
Executive Producer, Producer |
- | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | The Big T.N.T. Show | Executive Producer | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Sergeant Deadhead | Producer | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | Ski Party | Executive Producer | - | 1965 |
| 71% | 39% | Die, Monster, Die! | Executive Producer | - | 1965 |
| 29% | 43% | Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine | Producer | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | How to Stuff a Wild Bikini | Producer | - | 1965 |
| 73% | 52% | Beach Blanket Bingo | Producer | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Muscle Beach Party | Executive Producer | - | 1964 |
| 90% | 70% | The Comedy of Terrors | Producer | - | 1964 |
| 81% | 69% | The Last Man on Earth | Executive Producer | - | 1964 |
| 33% | 35% | Pajama Party | Producer | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | Bikini Beach | Producer | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | Summer Holiday | Executive Producer | - | 1963 |
| 71% | 66% | The Haunted Palace | Executive Producer | - | 1963 |
| 43% | 42% | Beach Party | Executive Producer | - | 1963 |
| 88% | 66% | The Man With the X-Ray Eyes | Executive Producer | - | 1963 |
| 80% | 64% | Burn, Witch, Burn! | Producer | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 48% | Alakazam the Great | Producer | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Circus of Horrors | Producer | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 6% | Assignment: Outer Space | Executive Producer | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tank Commandos | Producer | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bonnie Parker Story | Producer | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Submarine Seahawk | Executive Producer | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | Earth vs. the Spider | Executive Producer | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | Attack of the Puppet People | Executive Producer | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Suicide Battalion | Executive Producer | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Reform School Girl | Producer | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Voodoo Woman | Executive Producer | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Motorcycle Gang | Executive Producer | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dragstrip Girl | Executive Producer | - | 1957 |
| 38% | 22% | The Amazing Colossal Man | Executive Producer | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Runaway Daughters | Executive Producer | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | Female Jungle | Executive Producer | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girls in Prison | Executive Producer | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | The She Creature | Executive Producer | - | 1956 |