Sam Peckinpah, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1925)

Sam Peckinpah

American film director (1925–1984)

David Samuel Peckinpah was an American film director and screenwriter. His 1969 Western epic The Wild Bunch received two Academy Award nominations and was ranked No. 80 on the American Film Institute's top 100 list. His films employed a visually innovative and explicit depiction…