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Arkoff International Pictures was a film production company set up by Samuel Z. Arkoff, co-founder of American International Pictures (AIP). Arkoff sold AIP to Filmways in 1979, which he later described as "a giant mistake... [they] wanted to change everything AIP stood for." [1] Arkoff stayed on for a time as consultant but eventually sold the ...
Occupation. Film producer. Known for. co-founder of American International Pictures. Spouse. Hilda Rusoff. Children. 2, including Donna Arkoff Roth. Samuel Zachary Arkoff (June 12, 1918 – September 16, 2001) was an American producer of B movies.
Mar 22, 2022 · The film business had changed, James H. Nicholson was long gone, and Arkoff was moving on. Although he would release a smattering of pictures throughout the 1980s via Arkoff International Pictures – including cult classics like Q: The Winged Serpent (1985) – it was time for Arkoff to call it quits.
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American International PicturesFor three decades, from the 1950s to the 1970s, American International Pictures (AIP) supplied America's drive-ins and movie theatres with cult favorites such as It Conquered the World, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Beach Blanket Bingo, and The Pit and the Pendulum. The studio not only made the movies that the younger ...
Sep 18, 2001 · Roger Ebert September 18, 2001. Tweet. Samuel Z. Arkoff, who in some ways invented modern Hollywood, died Sunday of natural causes in a Burbank hospital. The co-founder of American-International Pictures and the godfather of the beach party and teenage werewolf movies was 83. When Arkoff and partner James H. Nicholson founded AIP in 1954, the ...
Sep 16, 2001 · 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 ...
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.
