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Sam Peckinpah
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Director, Screenwriter Born: February 21, 1925 in Fresno, CA Death: December 28, 1984 in Inglewood, CA Biography:Believing real-life turmoil bred peerless creativity, "Sam Peckinpah" left an indelible mark on post-1960s cinema with a relatively small body of work that was not for the faint of heart, either in the audience or his collaborators. Once noting "the outlaws of the old West have always fascinated me...I suppose I'm a bit of an outlaw myself," Peckinpah's unruly, incendiary vision turned such films as "Ride the High Country" (1962), "The Wild Bunch" (1969), and the non-Western "Straw Dogs" (1971) into forceful, complex ruminations on violence, morality, and manhood.
Born in Fresno, CA, and raised on a ranch on nearby Peckinpah Mountain by his sober mother and judge father, descendants of pioneer settlers, Peckinpah learned to ride and shoot as a child and idolized his hardy Superior Court jurist grandfather. A boozing, violence-prone troublemaker by his teens, Peckinpah spent his senior year at... Full Biography
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