Most Recent Role: on Silk Stalkings
Alias Name(s): David Peckinpah
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Fresno, California (USA)
Birthday: 2-21-1925
Birth Name: David Samuel Peckinpah
Date of Death: 12-28-1984
Cause of Death: Heart Failure (at 59)
Alias Name(s): David Peckinpah
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Fresno, California (USA)
Birthday: 2-21-1925
Birth Name: David Samuel Peckinpah
Date of Death: 12-28-1984
Cause of Death: Heart Failure (at 59)
Maverick Hollywood director famous for the violent content of his films and his hard partying lifestyle. Peckinpah's best known work is the 1969 western The Wild Bunch for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Most Recent Appearance
Powder Burn
Thursday 26 March 1992 on USA
Hutch goes undercover as a Jamaican drug dealer, in order to stop a gun-runner and drug kingpin. Meanwhile, Rita tries to work out her relationship with an old flame, who wants to rekindle their old romance.
After his death, Peckinpah was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea off the coast of Malibu.
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Peckinpah was fired as director of the 1965 film The Cincinnati Kid because of creative differenced with producer Martin Ransehoff.
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Peckinpah was voted the 32nd greatest movie director of all-time by Entertainment Weekly.
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Peckinpah reportedly had terrible handwriting that only a few people were able to decipher.
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Peckinpah's last directoral job was a music video for Julian Lennon.
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Peckinpah (about Junior Bonner): I made a movie where nobody got killed and nobody went to see it.
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Peckinpah: The end of a picture is always the end of a life.
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Other Appearances
| Writer | |
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ABC Stage 67
Noon Wine |
Broken Arrow
The Assassin |
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Broken Arrow
The Teacher |
Broken Arrow
The Transfer |
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DEA (1990)
Prime Mover |
DEA (1990)
White Lies |
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Gunsmoke
Dirt Story |
The Rifleman
The Marshal Story |
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The Westerner
Creator |
The Westerner
Producer |
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