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Director

Sam Peckinpah

USA · b. February 21, 1925 – d. December 28, 1984

Filmography (23)

The Osterman Weekend (Twentieth Century-Fox 1983

Convoy (United Artists/E.M.I. 1978

Cross of Iron (E.M.I. 1977

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage (Short Documentary, ) Dir: Paul Seydor 1977

The Killer Elite (United Artists 1975

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (United Artists 1974

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1973

Junior Bonner (ABC Pictures 1972

The Getaway (First Artists 1972

Straw Dogs (ABC Pictures 1971

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Warner Brothers 1970

The Wild Bunch (Warner Brothers/Seven Arts 1969

“That Lady is My Wife” (episode for Bob Hope’s Chrysler Theatre , ) (Director 1967

Noon Wine 1967

Major Dundee (Columbia Pictures 1965

“Pericles on 31 st Street (Co-scriptwriter, Producer and Director) and “The Losers” (Co-scriptwriter, Co-producer and Director) (episodes of Dick Powell Theatre 1962

Ride the High Country (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, ) (released in Europe in as Guns in the Afternoon 1962

The Deadly Companions (Pathe-American 1961

“Klondike Pilot” (Co-scriptwriter and Director) “Swoger’s Mules” (Co-scriptwriter and Director) (episodes of Klondike 1960

“Jeff” (Co-scriptwriter and Director) “Brown” (Director), “The Courting of Libby” (Director), “The Hand on the Gun” (Director), “The Painting” (Director), “The Old Man” (Scriptwriter), “School Day” (Co-scriptwriter) and “”Mrs Kennedy” (Co-scriptwriter) (episodes of The Westerner , . Peckinpah was also made the producer of this series which starred Brian Keith 1960

“Miss Jenny” (Co-scriptwriter and Director) “Lonesome Road” (Co-scriptwriter and Director) (episodes of Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre 1959

“The Sharpshooter” , (Scriptwriter) “The Marshall” (Director and Scriptwriter), “Home Ranch” (Scriptwriter), “The Boarding House” (Director) and “The Baby Sitter” (Director) (episodes of The Rifleman , -59 1958

Gunsmoke (Wrote 10 adaptations from radio scripts of the show and 2 original scripts. The original scripts were never produced but one became a pilot for Four Star Productions’ The Rifleman . -56 1955