Samuel Z. Arkoff
Producer, Actor
June 12, 1918 — September 16, 2001 (83 years)
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.
Movies & Shows on Plex
Known For
Filmography
| 2002 | Teenage Caveman · as Executive Producer |
| 2001 | The Day the World Ended · as Executive Producer |
| 2001 | |
| 2001 | Earth vs. the Spider · as Executive Producer |
| 2001 | She Creature · as Executive Producer |
| 1999 | The Haunting · as Executive Producer |
| 1985 | Hellhole · as Executive Producer |
| 1984 | Up the Creek · as Executive Producer |
| 1983 | The Final Terror · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1982 | Q: The Winged Serpent · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1981 | Underground Aces · as Executive Producer |
| 1980 | Dressed to Kill · as Executive Producer |
| 1980 | |
| 1980 | How to Beat the High Cost of Living · as Executive Producer |
| 1980 | Gorp · as Executive Producer |
| 1980 | Nothing Personal · as Executive Producer |
| 1980 | Defiance · as Executive Producer |
| 1979 | C.H.O.M.P.S. · as Executive Producer |
| 1979 | Meteor · as Executive Producer |
| 1979 | Seven · as Executive Producer |
| 1979 | Something Short of Paradise · as Executive Producer |
| 1979 | The Amityville Horror · as Executive Producer |
| 1979 | Sunnyside · as Executive Producer |
| 1979 | Jaguar Lives! · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1979 | Love at First Bite · as Executive Producer |
| 1979 | |
| 1979 | California Dreaming · as Executive Producer |
| 1979 | The Visitor · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1978 | The Norseman · as Executive Producer |
| 1978 | Matilda · as Executive Producer |
| 1978 | |
| 1978 | High-Ballin' · as Executive Producer |
| 1978 | Youngblood · as Executive Producer |
| 1978 | Here Come the Tigers · as Executive Producer |
| 1978 | Our Winning Season · as Executive Producer |
| 1978 | Jennifer · as Executive Producer |
| 1978 | Mean Dog Blues · as Executive Producer |
| 1977 | Record City · as Executive Producer |
| 1977 | The Incredible Melting Man · as Executive Producer |
| 1977 | The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover · as Executive Producer |
| 1977 | Holocaust 2000 · as Executive Producer |
| 1977 | Empire of the Ants · as Executive Producer |
| 1977 | Rolling Thunder · as Executive Producer |
| 1977 | The People That Time Forgot · as Executive Producer |
| 1977 | The Island of Dr. Moreau · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1977 | Cracking Up · as Executive Producer |
| 1977 | Final Chapter: Walking Tall · as Executive Producer |
| 1977 | Joyride · as Executive Producer |
| 1977 | Breaker! Breaker! · as Executive Producer |
| 1977 | Tentacles · as Executive Producer |
| 1977 | Last Cannibal World · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1977 | Chatterbox! · as Executive Producer |
| 1976 | The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane · as Executive Producer |
| 1976 | The Town That Dreaded Sundown · as Executive Producer |
| 1976 | The Monkey Hu$tle · as Executive Producer |
| 1976 | A Matter of Time · as Executive Producer |
| 1976 | Scorchy · as Executive Producer |
| 1976 | The House by the Lake · as Executive Producer |
| 1976 | J.D.'s Revenge · as Executive Producer |
| 1976 | Squirm · as Executive Producer |
| 1976 | Special Delivery · as Executive Producer |
| 1976 | At the Earth's Core · as Executive Producer |
| 1976 | FutureworldOn Plex |
| 1976 | The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday · as Executive Producer |
| 1976 | The Food of the Gods · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1976 | Who Can Kill a Child? · as Executive Producer |
| 1976 | Shout at the DevilOn Plex |
| 1976 | Street People · as Executive Producer |
| 1976 | Shadows in an Empty Room · as Executive Producer |
| 1976 | Dragonfly · as Executive Producer |
| 1976 | Escape from Angola · as Executive Producer |
| 1975 | The Day That Shook the World · as Executive Producer |
| 1975 | Hennessy · as Executive Producer |
| 1975 | Return to Macon County · as Executive Producer |
| 1975 | Cooley High · as Executive Producer |
| 1975 | The Wild Party · as Executive Producer |
| 1974 | Abby · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1974 | |
| 1974 | Madhouse · as Executive Producer |
| 1974 | Sugar Hill · as Executive Producer |
| 1973 | Hell Up in Harlem · as Executive Producer |
| 1973 | |
| 1973 | Dillinger · as Executive Producer |
| 1973 | Slaughter's Big Rip-Off · as Executive Producer |
| 1973 | Scream Blacula Scream · as Executive Producer |
| 1973 | Little Cigars · as Executive Producer |
| 1973 | Coffy · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1972 | Baron Blood · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1972 | Blacula · as Executive Producer |
| 1972 | Slaughter · as Executive Producer |
| 1972 | Dr. Phibes Rises Again · as Executive Producer |
| 1972 | Boxcar Bertha · as Executive Producer |
| 1972 | |
| 1971 | Bunny O'Hare · as Executive Producer |
| 1971 | Godzilla vs. Hedorah · as Executive Producer |
| 1971 | Murders in the Rue Morgue · as Executive Producer |
| 1971 | The Abominable Dr. Phibes · as Executive Producer |
| 1970 | |
| 1970 | Bloody Mama · as Executive Producer |
| 1970 | Dorian Gray · as Executive Producer |
| 1970 | |
| 1970 | |
| 1970 | |
| 1970 | The Dunwich HorrorOn Plex |
| 1970 | An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe · as Executive Producer |
| 1970 | The Savage Wild · as Executive Producer |
| 1969 | Two Gentlemen Sharing · as Executive Producer |
| 1969 | |
| 1969 | Chastity · as Executive Producer |
| 1969 | |
| 1968 | Three in the Attic · as Executive Producer |
| 1968 | |
| 1968 | Witchfinder General · as Executive Producer |
| 1968 | The Savage Seven · as Executive Producer |
| 1968 | Psych-Out · as Executive Producer |
| 1967 | The Trip · as Executive Producer |
| 1967 | |
| 1967 | Thunder Alley · as Executive Producer |
| 1966 | Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs · as Executive Producer |
| 1966 | The Wild Angels · as Executive Producer |
| 1966 | |
| 1966 | |
| 1966 | Queen of BloodOn Plex |
| 1965 | The Big T.N.T. Show · as Executive Producer |
| 1965 | |
| 1965 | Die, Monster, Die! · as Executive Producer |
| 1965 | Planet of the Vampires · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1965 | |
| 1965 | Frankenstein vs. Baragon · as Executive Producer |
| 1965 | |
| 1965 | City in the Sea · as Executive Producer |
| 1965 | |
| 1964 | |
| 1964 | |
| 1964 | Dogora · as Executive Producer |
| 1964 | |
| 1964 | The Last Man on Earth · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1964 | Muscle Beach Party · as Executive Producer |
| 1964 | War of the Zombies · as Executive Producer |
| 1963 | |
| 1963 | |
| 1963 | X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1963 | The Raven · as Executive Producer |
| 1963 | The Haunted Palace · as Executive Producer |
| 1963 | Attack of the Mushroom People · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1963 | Beach Party · as Executive Producer |
| 1963 | Operation Bikini · as Executive Producer |
| 1962 | Tales of Terror · as Executive Producer |
| 1962 | |
| 1962 | The Premature BurialOn Plex |
| 1962 | Panic in Year Zero! · as Executive Producer |
| 1962 | |
| 1962 | |
| 1962 | |
| 1961 | The Pit and the Pendulum · as Executive Producer |
| 1961 | Master of the World · as Executive Producer |
| 1961 | |
| 1960 | Assignment: Outer Space · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1960 | |
| 1960 | Black Sunday · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1960 | Circus of HorrorsOn Plex |
| 1959 | A Bucket of Blood · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | Paratroop CommandOn Plex |
| 1958 | Submarine Seahawk · as Executive Producer |
| 1958 | Terror from the Year 5000 · as Executive Producer |
| 1958 | The Day the Sky Exploded · as Executive Producer |
| 1958 | Earth vs the Spider · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1958 | Teenage Cave Man · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1958 | War of the Colossal Beast · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1958 | |
| 1958 | |
| 1958 | Machine-Gun Kelly · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1958 | Suicide Battalion · as Executive Producer |
| 1957 | The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1957 | The Amazing Colossal Man · as Executive Producer |
| 1957 | Motorcycle Gang · as Executive Producer |
| 1957 | |
| 1957 | I Was a Teenage Werewolf · as Executive Producer |
| 1957 | Invasion of the Saucer Men · as Executive Producer |
| 1957 | Dragstrip Girl · as Executive Producer |
| 1957 | Voodoo Woman · as Executive Producer |
| 1957 | Naked Paradise · as Executive Producer |
| 1956 | Shake, Rattle & Rock!On Plex |
| 1956 | Runaway Daughters · as Executive Producer |
| 1956 | Flesh and the Spur · as Executive Producer |
| 1956 | The She-Creature · as Executive Producer |
| 1956 | It Conquered the World · as Executive Producer |
| 1956 | Hot Rod Girl · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1956 | Girls in Prison · as Executive Producer |
| 1956 | The Oklahoma Woman · as Executive Producer |
| 1956 | Gunslinger · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1955 | Female Jungle · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1955 | Day the World Ended · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1955 | The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1955 | Apache Woman · as Executive Producer |
| 1955 | The Beast with a Million Eyes · as Executive Producer |
| 1955 | Outlaw Treasure · as Executive Producer |
| 1955 | Five Guns West · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 1954 | The Fast and the Furious · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 2021 | Hollywood in the Atomic Age - Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! · as Self (archive Footage)On Plex |
| 2014 | |
| 2007 | The Fearmakers Collection · as Self |
| 2002 | The 74th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Memorial Tribute |
| 2001 | |
| 2001 | Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies · as Himself |
| 2000 | Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre · as Self |
| 1998 | Some Nudity Required · as Himself |
| 1997 | Pitch · as Self |
| 1997 | |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story · as Self |
| 1994 | The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters · as Self |
| 1994 | A Visit with Vincent · as Self |
| 1993 | The Troma System · as Himself |
| 1992 | Heartstoppers: Horror at the Movies · as Self |
| 1992 | HBO First Look · as Self |
| 1991 | The Horror Hall of Fame II · as Self |
| 1982 | Late Night With David Letterman · as Self |
| 1973 | AFI Life Achievement Award · as Self - Audience Member |
| 2001 | |
| 1994 | Runaway Daughters · as Storekeeper |
| 1994 | Rebel Highway · as Shopkeeper |
| 1957 | Naked Paradise · as Sam (uncredited) |
| 1965 | Spy in Your Eye · as Presentation Producer |
| 1965 | Ski Party · as Co-Executive Producer |
| 1964 | Crypt of the Vampire · as Executive Producer: Us Version |
| 1963 | Hercules and the Masked Rider · as Presentation Producer |
| 1963 | Summer Holiday · as Executive Producer: Us Prints Only |
| 1959 | Genghis Khan and His Mongols · as Presenter |
| 1958 | Operation Abduction · as Presentation Producer: Usa |