Sam Peckinpah: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	David Samuel Peckinpah
Born	February 21, 1925 • Fresno • California
Died	December 28, 1984 (aged 59) • Inglewood • California
Notable Works	“Junior Bonner” • “Ride the High Country” • “Straw Dogs” • “The Wild Bunch”

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Sam Peckinpah wearing a patterned headband looks through a film camera viewfinder while directing Cross of Iron. Another crew member is partially visible in the background.

Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, William Holden, and Ernest Borgnine dressed as cowboys, walk side by side holding rifles in a desert setting in The Wild Bunch (1969).

Dustin Hoffman as David Sumner in Straw Dogs (1971), wearing a parka and glasses, holds a shotgun indoors with a tense expression.

Ali MacGraw and Steve McQueen in a tense scene from The Getaway, with MacGraw sitting on a ledge and McQueen holding a gun while crouching beside her against a brick wall.

William Holden as Pike Bishop, wearing a cowboy hat and bloodstained shirt, fires a mounted machine gun during the climactic shoot-out in The Wild Bunch.

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