and brutality. He was given the nickname "Bloody Sam" owing to the violence in his films. Peckinpah's combative personality, marked by years of alcohol...
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Mark McCain (section Sam Peckinpah)
It was a wonderful family show but had its dramatic elements, too." Sam Peckinpah, the author of the first episode of The Rifleman, "The Sharpshooter...
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The Wild Bunch (category Films directed by Sam Peckinpah)
Bunch is a 1969 American epic revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien...
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Straw Dogs (1971 film) (category Films directed by Sam Peckinpah)
psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. The screenplay, by Peckinpah and David Zelag Goodman, is based...
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Ride the High Country (category Films directed by Sam Peckinpah)
Afternoon) is a 1962 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Mariette Hartley. The...
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (category Films directed by Sam Peckinpah)
Billy the Kid is a 1973 American revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, written by Rudy Wurlitzer, and starring James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson...
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actor best known for his performances in several films directed by Sam Peckinpah, including The Wild Bunch (1969) and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia...
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The Getaway (1972 film) (category Films directed by Sam Peckinpah)
film based on the 1958 novel by Jim Thompson. The film was directed by Sam Peckinpah, written by Walter Hill, and stars Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson...
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The Killer Elite (category Films directed by Sam Peckinpah)
The Killer Elite is a 1975 American action thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and written by Marc Norman and Stirling Silliphant, adapted from the...
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The Osterman Weekend (film) (category Films directed by Sam Peckinpah)
Osterman Weekend is a 1983 American suspense thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah, based on the 1972 novel of the same name by Robert Ludlum. The film...
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Major Dundee (category Films directed by Sam Peckinpah)
Major Dundee is a 1965 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, and James Coburn. Written...
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film directed, produced, and written by Rod Lurie. It is a remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film Straw Dogs, itself based on the Gordon Williams novel The...
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Convoy (1978 film) (category Films directed by Sam Peckinpah)
Convoy is a 1978 American road action comedy film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young...
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40-year career, he may be best remembered for his work with director Sam Peckinpah. Armstrong was born in Pleasant Grove, Alabama, and was reared on a...
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role and Edward G. Robinson as Howard. Director Jewison, who replaced Sam Peckinpah shortly after filming began, describes The Cincinnati Kid as his "ugly...
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The Deadly Companions (category Films directed by Sam Peckinpah)
Deadly Companions is a 1961 American Western and war film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran, and Chill Wills...
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Junior Bonner (category Films directed by Sam Peckinpah)
Junior Bonner is a 1972 American contemporary Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Joe Don Baker and Ida Lupino...
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (category Films directed by Sam Peckinpah)
Mexican-American neo-Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, co-written by Peckinpah and Gordon Dawson from a story by Peckinpah and Frank Kowalski, and starring Warren...
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Cross of Iron (category Films directed by Sam Peckinpah)
Kreuz, lit. "Steiner – The Iron Cross") is a 1977 war film directed by Sam Peckinpah, featuring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason and David Warner...
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role as a one-armed Indian tracker in Major Dundee (1965), directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Charlton Heston. At Fox, he was second-billed in the pirate...
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having married American film director Sam Peckinpah. They married in 1965, after Palacios had a minor role in Peckinpah's film Major Dundee that same year...
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He was born in Orange County, California. He frequently worked with Sam Peckinpah, appearing in The Getaway, The Killer Elite and Convoy. Other films...
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Huston, Shelley Winters, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen, and Sam Peckinpah with supporting appearances by Neal Boortz and Steve Somers. It was...
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"Sam Peckinpah's 'Salad Days'" is a sketch from the 7th episode of the third series of the British television programme Monty Python's Flying Circus....
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landscape-based Western classicism reminiscent of Anthony Mann and Sam Peckinpah, are matched by few living directors", and Peter Travers of Rolling...
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professionally as L. Q. Jones, was an American actor. He appeared in Sam Peckinpah's films Ride the High Country (1962), Major Dundee (1965), The Wild Bunch...
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She is possibly best known for her roles in film as Elsa Knudsen in Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country (1962), Susan Clabon in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie...
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This filmography implies that the influence of film-makers such as Sam Peckinpah or Andy Warhol, to name two, is as significant to the development of...
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appeared in four films of tempestuous director Sam Peckinpah and had a good relationship with him, with Peckinpah appreciating Johnson's authenticity and lack...
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of books and essays about Sam Peckinpah. An American film director and screenwriter. Hayes, Kevin J. (2008). Sam Peckinpah: Interviews. Univ. Press of...
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