An American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor, born in California, USA to a family that worked in politics. He served in the US Navy during World War II from 1939 to 1945. After the war, he studied theater arts at Franco State College and Southern California University....Read more In the early 1950s, he worked in several jobs in television and theater, before working as an assistant director for American film director Don Siegel, who specialized in action films. During this period, he also wrote dialogues for a number of television series, such as Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, and The Westerner. Peckinpah directed his first film, The Deadly Companions, then presented his film Ride the High Country in 1962, then presented the film The Wild Bunch in 1969, starring William Holden and Ernest Borgnine. The film tells the story of fighters who feel bitter as a result of history forgetting them. Among his films: (Straw Dogs) in 1971, and (The Osterman Weekend) in 1983.
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An American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor, born in California, USA to a family that worked in politics. He served in the US Navy during World War II from 1939 to...Read more 1945. After the war, he studied theater arts at Franco State College and Southern California University. In the early 1950s, he worked in several jobs in television and theater, before working as an assistant director for American film director Don Siegel, who specialized in action films. During this period, he also wrote dialogues for a number of television series, such as Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, and The Westerner. Peckinpah directed his first film, The Deadly Companions, then presented his film Ride the High Country in 1962, then presented the film The Wild Bunch in 1969, starring William Holden and Ernest Borgnine. The film tells the story of fighters who feel bitter as a result of history forgetting them. Among his films: (Straw Dogs) in 1971, and (The Osterman Weekend) in 1983.