Sam Peckinpah

David Samuel Peckinpah was born in Fresno, California, in 1925, the son of a lawyer and grandson of a rancher turned judge and congressman. He served in the Marines and went to China in 1945 to disarm the Japanese, worked as a television stagehand and then as an assistant to a B-movie director, and wrote westerns for television. He made fourteen feature films in twenty-two years, fell out with several studios and saw some of his films re-edited without him. He died in California in 1984, at the age of fifty-nine.

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• CinemaThe Wild BunchSam Peckinpah · 1969Cinema