- Arkoff, Samuel Zachary
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▪ 2002American film producer (b. June 12, 1918, Fort Dodge, Iowa—d. Sept. 16, 2001, Burbank, Calif.), was the cofounder (1954), with James Nicholson, of the company that became American International Pictures (AIP), which released low-budget B movies geared mostly to the previously largely ignored teen market and which first recognized the financial potential in releasing double-feature packages. Along with producing hundreds of films, including I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), The Amityville Horror (1979), a number of “beach party” movies, and a series based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, AIP launched the careers of directors Roger Corman, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, and Francis Ford Coppola and actors Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, and Peter Fonda.
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Universalium. 2010.