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Samuel Z. Arkoff
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Producer, Executive Producer Born: June 12, 1918 in Fort Dodge, IA Death: September 16, 2001 in Burbank, CA Biography:Iowa-born law school graduate "Samuel Z. Arkoff" and his late partner "James H. Nicholson", although they never directed movies, were among the most important low-budget producers of the late 1950s as founders of American International Pictures (originally known as American Releasing Corporation). Beginning in 1955, Arkoff and "Nicholson" filled a niche left behind by the declining major studios, for genre and exploitation films that could round out the double-bills of movie theaters and, later on, form the programs for smaller neighborhood theaters and drive-ins. The budgets of these pictures were low, and often the pictures themselves began as titles (usually conceived by "Nicholson") and artwork, with scripts written subsequently: "The Female Jungle", "Reform School Girl", "Sorority Girl", "Motorcycle Gang", "Drag Strip Girl", "The Amazing Colossal Man", and "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" were... Full Biography
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