Lee Frost Biography
Lee Frost (1935 - 2007) was a director, producer, cinematographer, editor and occasional actor. He directed a number of B-movies including Love Camp 7, Chain Gang Women, Chrome and Hot Leather, The Thing with Two Heads, The Black Gestapo, Dixie Dynamite and Private Obsession. Frost was born in Arizona in 1935 and raised in California and Hawaii. He used several pseudonyms for his work, such as R.L. Frost, R. Lee Frost, and David Kayne. His first film was released in 1963, the comedy Sexploitation Surftide 77. He then directed House on Bare Mountain and in 1965, The Defilers. The themes of misogyny and BDSM are ones that appear in Frost's films for much of his career. The Mondo Mondo Bizarro trilogy will be; Mondo, Mondo Freudo and The Forbidden, all released in 1966 and shot in color. He later directed the Sexploitation films The Animal and The Pick-Up, Frost's Hot Spur, Chrome and Hot Leather, released in 1971. After the advent of hardcore pornographic films in the mid-1970s and the resulting decline in demand for softcore films and sexploitation, Frost's output included producing and directing a handful of adult films including 1974's A Climax of Blue Power. Lee worked as an industrial film editor for a film lab in the 1980s and early of the 90s. His last feature film was Shannon Whirry's erotic thriller Private Obsession (1995).
