Sam Peckinpah (1925 - 1984)
Onetime enfant terrible of the cinematic world, Sam Peckinpah's films were spectacularly violent, and liable to interpretation in often contradictory fashions. He worked initially as a scriptwriter and director of western genre television series such as Gunsmoke? and [The Rifleman]? prior to becoming one of the most influential cinema directors of his generation.
Filmography:
- 1961 [The Deadly Companions]?
- 1962 [Ride the High Country]?
- 1965 [Major Dundee]?
- 1969 [The Wild Bunch]?
- 1970 [The Ballad of Cable Hogue]?
- 1971 [Straw Dogs]?
- 1972 [The Getaway]?
- 1972 [Junior Bonner]?
- 1973 [Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid]?
- 1974 [Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia]?
- 1975 [The Killer Elite]?
- 1977 [Cross of Iron]?
- 1983 [The Osterman Weekend]?
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