David Friedman

David Frank Friedman (24 December 1923, Birmingham, Alabama - 14 February 2011, Anniston, Alabama) was an American filmmaker and film producer best known for his B movies, exploitation films, nudie cuties and sexploitation films. Calling himself the Mighty Monarch of the Exploitation Film, he produced nearly 50 exploitation films from 1956 to 2010. With Herschell Gordon Lewis he produced Blood Feast (1963), often considered the first splatter film, and the Blood Trilogy. He also produced two of the first Nazi exploitation films, Love Camp 7 (1969) and Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS (1974), the latter under the name Herman Traeger. He was president of the Adult Film Association of America, and in 1990 published his autobiography, A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-Film King.