Name: Lee Frost
Date of Birth: 14 August 1935 Lee Frost rates highly as one of the best, most talented and versatile filmmakers in the annals of exploitation cinema. Frost was born on August 14, 1935 in Globe, Arizona. He grew up in Glendale, California and Oahu, Hawaii. Lee eventually wound up in Hollywood, where he started his career making TV commercials for the studio Telepics. Frost made his film debut with the early 60s nudie cutie "Surftide 77." He went on to make a slew of pictures in many different genres: tongue-in-cheek horror co... medy ("The House on Bare Mountain"), mondo shock documentaries ("Hollywood's World of Flesh," "Mondo Bizzaro," "Mondo Freudo"), perverse soft-core roughies ("The Defilers," "The Animal"), crime drama ("The Pick-Up"), Westerns ("Hot Spur," "The Scavengers"), and even Nazisploitation ("Love Camp 7," which has been widely cited as the prototype for the notorious "Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS"). A majority of Frost's 60s features were made for legendary trash flick producer Bob Cresse. Moreover, Lee added sex inserts into such foreign films as "London in the Raw," "Night Women," and "Witchcraft '70." Frost continued cranking out entertainingly sleazy drive-in items throughout the 70s; they include the startling psycho sniper outing "Zero In and Scream," the passable biker opus "Chrome and Hot Leather," the gritty "Chain Gang Women," the hilariously campy "The Thing With Two Heads," the immensely enjoyable "Policewomen," the gnarly blaxploitation winner "The Black Gestapo," the rowdy redneck romp "Dixie Dynamite," and the jolting roughie porno shocker "A Climax of Blue Power." Frost often cast former football player Phil Hoover in his 70s movies and frequently collaborated with producer/screenwriter Wes Bishop (in addition to their own pictures, Frost and Bishop wrote the script for Jack Starrett's terrific "Race With the Devil," which Frost was originally supposed to direct as well). Both Frost and Bishop appear as actors in usually small parts in a handful of Frost's films. Lee worked as an editor on industrial movies for a film laboratory throughout the 80s and early 90s. His last feature was the straight-to-video Shannon Whirry erotic thriller vehicle "Private Obsession." Lee Frost died at age 71 on May 25, 2007.Read more Lee Frost movies (actor)Lee Frost movies (director)User Comments |
