Wood Jr.'s movies Bride of the Monster (1954), Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) and Night of the Ghouls (1959). The film starred Tor Johnson, the Swedish wrestler best known for appearing in Edward D. Thompson to create SCA Productions, a company that produced the semi-autobiographical Cold War melodrama Journey to Freedom (1957). Journey to Freedom (1957) Īround 1955, Apostolof teamed up with exploitation veterans Robert C. After serving in the French Foreign Legion, in 1950 he moved, this time to Canada, and from there in 1952 he went to Los Angeles, California, where he became a clerk for Bank of America.Īpostolof's career in films began at 20th Century-Fox, where he was doing some number-crunching in the production department in 1953–1954. After a short stay in Istanbul he drifted to Paris, France.

He was caught in Turkish territorial waters and thrown in jail for several months, accused of being a Bulgarian spy. In 1948, he escaped from Bulgaria by stowing away on a Finnish freighter. He was eventually arrested and spent 18 months in jail. In 1946, when he was only 17, he joined an underground guerilla group that fought the newly established Communist regime in Bulgaria. Steven attended a German-language high school for several years. The Apostolofs were an artistically inclined family. Apostolof had a brother, Stavri, and two sisters, Vesa and Lila. Early life Īpostolof was born in the Black Sea town of Burgas, Bulgaria, to Hristo Apostolov, a can manufacturer, and his wife Polyxena. He was also one of the few directors to work steadily with the infamous Ed Wood and such sexploitation icons as Marsha Jordan and Rene Bond in the 1960s and 1970s. Apostolof had gained a reputation for creating high-quality mass entertainment with minimal budgets. Stephen(s) or Robert Lee, was a Bulgarian-American filmmaker specializing in low-budget exploitation and erotic films, who gained a cult following for a wide variety of films that range from erotic horror ( Orgy of the Dead) and suburban exposé ( Suburbia Confidential) to western-themed costume pictures ( Lady Godiva Rides) and Mission Impossible-type capers such as ( Hot Ice). Apostolof (Febru– August 14, 2005), sometimes credited under aliases A.C.

Orgy of the Dead by Ed Wood