Sam Peckinpah February 21, 1925 - December 28, 1984.
Sam Peckinpah's works live on and god damn do many of the man's films hold up well. Below is a filmography including, towards the bottom, a section on projects that never came to be. This filmography project would not be plugging along were it not for the work of Paolo "The Dude" Gilli. The Dude has been compiling information in the forum for some time now and it is his hard work that is a prime force in making this thing possible. Thanks also to filmmaker Mike Siegel who put together the whole list of documentaries. Hopefully this will become a thorough record of Sam Peckinpah's works. That may be wishful thinking but for now you can see a work in progress: |
Sam peckinpah filmography: |
| Films directed by Sam Peckinpah |
| 1983- |
The Osterman Weekend |
| 1974- |
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia |
| 1973- |
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid |
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Director Writer Actor (hard to see cameo spotted by Mike Siegel) |
| 1970- |
The Ballad of Cable Hogue |
| 1966- |
ABC Stage 67: Noon Wine (season 1, episode 3) |
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Director (replaced durring first week of production) |
| 1962- |
Ride the High Country |
| 1961- |
The Deadly Companions |
| Films written by Sam Peckinpah |
| 1974- |
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia |
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Director Writer (hard to see cameo spotted by Mike Siegel) |
| 1968- |
Villa Rides (Peckinpah was fired after writing the screenplay) |
| 1966- |
ABC Stage 67: Noon Wine (season 1, episode 3) |
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Writer (had an option to direct, turned it down) |
| 1962- |
Ride the High Country |
| Second unit work by Sam Peckinpah |
| Various film department work by Sam Peckinpah |
| 1978- |
China 9, Liberty 37 |
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uncredited advisor Directed by Monte Hellman |
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uncredited screenplay supervisor Directed by Gonzalo Suárez |
| 1956- |
Crime in the Streets |
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dialogue coach, credited as David S. Peckinpah Directed by Don Siegel |
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uncredited dialogue director Directed by Edward Bernds |
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dialogue coach Directed by Don Siegel |
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dialogue coach Directed by Daniel B. Ullman |
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dialogue director, credited as David Peckinpah Directed by Don Siegel |
| 1954- |
Riot in Cell Block 11 |
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uncredited production assistant Directed by Don Siegel |
| Acting and cameos by Sam Peckinpah |
| 1983- |
The Osterman Weekend |
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Picks up phone in Lancaster’s office |
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plays Dr. Sam Collins Directed by Monte Hellman |
| 1978- |
China 9, Liberty 37 |
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plays Dime Novelist Wilbur Olsen Directed by Gonzalo Suárez |
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uncredited role as the director of the news crew |
| 1973- |
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid |
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Backshot of Peckinpah and his 3rd wife Joie Gould in El Paso spotted by Mike Siegel |
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listed on IMDb but not confirmed Directed by Paul Landres |
| 1956- |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
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plays the meter reader Charlie Directed by Don Siegel |
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uncredited role as a bank teller Directed by Jacques Tourneur |
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uncredited role as a pilot Directed by Don Siegel |
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uncredited role as a cook Directed by Daniel B. Ullman |
| Television Work by Sam Peckinpah |
| 1984- |
Julian Lennon - Too Late for Goodbyes |
| 1984- |
Julian Lennon - Valotte |
| 1967- |
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre |
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-That Lady is my Wife (01.02.1967 - Season 4, Episode 17) [director] |
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-Noon Wine (23.11.1966 - Season 1, Episode 9) [writer script from a novel by Katherine Anne Porter / director] |
| 1962-1963 |
The Dick Powell Theatre |
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-The Losers (15.01.1963 - Season 2, Episode 16) [writer story with Bruce Geller / director] |
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-Pericles on the 31th Street (12.04.1962 - Season 2, Episode 10) [writer teleplay from a story by Harry Mark Petrakis / director / producer] |
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-Mon Petit Chou (24.11.1961 - Season 2, Episode 9) [director] |
| 1960- |
The Westerner Created by Sam Peckinpah, with input on all written scripts |
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-The Painting (30.12.1960 - Season 1, Episode 13) [director / producer] |
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-Hand on the Gun (23.12.1960 - Season 1, Episode 12) [director / producer] |
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-Going Home (16.12.1960 - Season 1, Episode 11) [producer] |
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-The Line Camp (09.12.1960 - Season 1, Episode 10) [producer] |
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-Ghost of a Chance (02.12.1960 - Season 1, Episode 9) [producer] |
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-The Old Man (25.11.1960 - Season 1, Episode 8) [writer script / producer] |
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-The Treasure (18.11.1960 - Season 1, Episode 7) [producer] |
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-The Courting of Libby (11.11.1960 - Season 1, Episode 6) [director / producer] |
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-Dos Pinos (04.11.1960 - Season 1, Episode 5) [producer] |
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-Miss Kennedy (28.10.1960 - Season 1, Episode 4) [producer] |
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-Brown (21.10.1960 - Season 1, Episode 3) [director / producer] |
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-School Day (07.10.1960 - Season 1, Episode 2) [writer script with Robert Heverly / producer] |
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-Jeff (30.09.1960 - Season 1, Episode 1) [writer script with Robert Heverly / director / producer] |
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-The Story of Julesburg (09.03.1960 - Season 1, Episode 0, Pilot) [writer script] |
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-Klondike Fever (10.10.1960 - Season 1, Episode 1) [writer script] |
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-Swoger’s Mules (02.11.1960 - Season 1, Episode 6) [writer script with Jack Gariss and Elliot Lewis] |
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-The Kidder (16.05.1959 - Season 1, Episode 31) [writer script with Peter Packer] |
| 1958-1960 |
Zane Grey Theater |
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-The Sharpshooter (17.03.1958 - Season 2, Episode, 21) [writer script] Pilot of The Rifleman |
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-Trouble at Tres Cruces (28.03.1959 - Season 3, Episode 24) [writer script / director] Pilot of The Westerner |
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-Lonesome Road (19.11.1959 - Season 4, Episode 8) [writer script with Jack Curtis / director] |
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-Miss Jenny (07.01.1960 - Season 4, Episode 14) [writer script with Robert Heverly / director] |
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-The Baby Sitter (15.12.1959 - Season 2, Episode 12) [writer teleplay with Jack Curtis from a story by Sam Peckinpah / director] |
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-The Money Gun (12.05.1959 - Season1, Episode 33) [writer teleplay with Bruce Geller from a story by Bruce Geller / director] |
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-The Boarding House (24.02.1959 - Season 1, Episode 22) [writer script from an uncredited story by Chuck Connors / director] |
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-The Marshal (21.10.1958 - Season 1, Episode 4) [writer script with Jack Gariss / writer script / director] |
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-Home Ranch (07.10.1958 - Season 1, Episode 2) [writer script] |
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-The Sharpshooter (30.09.1958 - Season 1, Episode 1) [writer script] |
| 1958- |
Have Gun, Will Travel |
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-The Singer (08.02.1958 - Season1, Episode 22) [writer script with Ken Kolb] |
| 1958- |
Tombstone Territory |
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-The Johnny Ringo Story aka Johnny Ringo’s Last Ride (19.02.1958 - Season 1, Episode 19) [writer teleplay from a story by Andy White] |
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-The Transfer (24.06.1958 - Season 2, Episode 29) [writer script from a novel by Elliott Arnold/ director] |
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-The Knife Fighter (1958) [writer] listed by different sources, but no episode with such title exist |
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-The Teacher (19.11.1957 - Season 2, Episode 8) [writer tele play from a story by Peter R. Brooke based on the novel by Elliott Arnold] |
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-The Assassin (23.04.1957 - Season 1, Episode 29) [writer teleplay from a story and novel by Elliott Arnold] |
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-The Town (13.12.1957 - Season 1, Episode 11) [writer script] |
| 1957- |
Tales of Wells Fargo |
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-Apache Gold (01.09.1957 - Season 2, Episode 3) [writer teleplay and story] |
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-The Knife Fighter (1958) [writer] listed by different sources, but no episode with such title exist The Transfer (24.06.1958 - Season 2, Episode 29) [writer script from a novel by Elliott Arnold/ director] |
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-The Teacher (19.11.1957 - Season 2, Episode 8) [writer tele play from a story by Peter R. Brooke based on the novel by Elliott Arnold] |
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-The Assassin (23.04.1957 - Season 1, Episode 29) [writer teleplay from a story and novel by Elliott Arnold] |
| 1957- |
20th Century-Fox Hour |
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-End of the Gun (09.01.1957 - Season 2, Episode 8) [writer teleplay] adapted from William Bowers Screenplay of The Gunfighter directed by Henry King (1950) |
| 1955-1958 |
Gunsmoke (11 episodes) |
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-Dirt (01.03.1958 - Season 3, Episode 25) [writer teleplay as David S.Peckinpah from a story by John Meston] |
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-How to kill a Woman (30.11.1957 - Season 3, Episode 12) [writer teleplay as David S.Peckinpah from a story by John Meston] |
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-Jealousy (06.07.1957 - Season 2, Episode 39) [writer teleplay from a story by John Meston] |
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-Poor Pearl (22.12.1956 - Season 2, Episode 13) [writer teleplay from a story by John Meston] |
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-Legal Revenge (17.11.1956 - Season 2, Episode 8) [writer teleplay from a story by John Meston] |
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-The Round Up (29.09.1956 - Season 2, Episode 4) [writer teleplay from a story by John Meston] |
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-The Guitar (21.07.1956 - Season 1, Episode 35) [writer teleplay from a story by John Meston] |
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-How to Die for Nothing (23.06.1956 - Season 1, Episode 31) [writer teleplay from a story by John Meston] |
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-Cooter (19.05.1956 - Season 1, Episode 27) [writer teleplay from a story by John Meston] |
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-Yorky (18.02.1956 - Season 1, Episode 18) [writer teleplay from a story by John Meston] |
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-The Queue (03.12.1955 - Season 1, Episode 10) [writer teleplay from a story by John Meston] |
| Television Appearances by Sam Peckinpah |
| 1974- |
"Talk About Pictures" with Peckinpah & John Bryson |
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Hosted by Leigh Wiener. Episode 20 (August 1974) |
| 1972- |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson |
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(07.01.1971) possibly the same as "Cinema" Granada TV hosted by Michael Parkinson. B/W. (November 1969) |
| 1970- |
The David Frost Show |
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Episode #2.135 (06.03.1970) |
| 1970- |
The Irv Kupcinet Show |
| Documentaries involving Sam Peckinpah |
| Feature length documentaries: |
| 2009- |
STORIES ON A STORYTELLER 3-part documentary 103 minutes |
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DVD 'Passion & Poetry' Directed by Mike Siegel |
| 2005- |
PASSION & POETRY - THE BALLAD OF SAM PECKINPAH 115 minutes |
| 2005- |
SAM PECKINPAH – PORTRAIT Umberto Berlenghini 79 minutes |
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Directed by Michelangelo Dalto |
| 2004- |
SAM PECKINPAH’s WEST: LEGACY OF A HOLLYWOOD RENEGADE
82 minutes |
| 1992- |
SAM PECKINPAH - MAN OF IRON 90 minutes |
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BBC Directed by Paul Joyce |
| Making Of’s / Docs on single films: |
| 2011- |
Featurettes ON LOCATION - CROSS OF IRON: SAM PECKINPAH (5:06), JAMES COBURN (5:30), JAMES MASON (6:05), MAXIMILIAN SCHELL (4:35), DAVID WARNER (3:14) 1976 on set audio interviews |
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German DVD 2012 / German + UK Blu-Ray Cross Of Iron
Directed by Mike Siegel |
| 2011- |
PASSION & POETRY – SAM’s WAR 47minutes |
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German DVD 2012 / German + UK Blu-Ray Cross Of Iron
Directed by Mike Siegel |
| 2011- |
Featurettes: KRÜGER KISSES KERN (8:27), LETTERS FROM VADIM & SAM (3:48), VADIM & SAM - SON & DAD (5:55), CUTTING ROOM FLOOR (4:19), STEINER IN JAPAN (1:55), MIKE's HOMEMOVIES - Steiner meets Kiesel again (7:16) |
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Blu-ray Cross Of Iron
Directed by Mike Siegel |
| 2010- |
PASSION & POETRY – THE EARLY SAM 29 minutes |
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German + Spanish DVD The Deadly Companions Directed by Mike Siegel |
| 2010- |
TRAS EL RASTRO DE SAM PECKINPAH 16 minutes |
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Spanish Essay, DVD The Deadly Companions |
| 2009- |
MAPACHE TERRITORY 14 minutes |
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DVD Passion & Poetry Directed by Mike Siegel |
| 2009- |
ERNIE BORGNINE ON THE WILD BUNCH 14 minutes |
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DVD Passion & Poetry Directed by Mike Siegel |
| 2007- |
PASSION & POETRY: SAM PECKINPAH’s STRAW DOGS 39 minutes |
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EuroVideo 2-Disc SE DVD Directed by Mike Siegel |
| 2007- |
Featurettes: STORIES ABOUT PECKINPAH / DAVID WARNER BILLING STORY / DUSTIN HOFFMAN’s METHOD / STRAW DOGS CAMERAMEN
25 minutes |
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German EuroVideo 2-Disc SE DVD Straw Dogs Directed by Mike Siegel |
| 2005- |
A JUSTIFIED LIFE: Sam Peckinpah and the High County 23 minutes |
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DVD Ride the High Country Directed by Nick Redman |
| 2005- |
PASSION & POETRY: MAJOR DUNDEE 22 minutes |
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SONY DVD Major Dundee Directed by Mike Siegel |
| 2005- |
A SIMPLE ADVENTURE STORY 27 minutes |
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DVD SE The Wild Bunch Directed by Nick Redman |
| 2005- |
THE LADIEST DAMN’D LADY 27 minutes |
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DVD The Ballad Of Cable Hogue Directed by Nick Redman |
| 2005- |
DECONSTRUCTING PAT & BILLY 14 minutes |
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DVD Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid Directed by Nick Redman |
| 2005- |
REMEMBERING SAM PECKINPAH AND OTHER THINGS 28 minutes |
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DVD Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid Directed by Nick Redman |
| 2004- |
JERRY FIELDING, SAM PECKINPAH & The Getaway 24 minutes |
| 2004- |
ALPHA TO OMEGA: Exposing The Osterman Weekend Jonathan Gaines
78 minutes |
| 2003- |
MAN TRAP (Straw Dogs) 50 minutes |
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BBC Directed by Paul Joyce |
| 2002- |
Interviews SUSAN GEORGE, DAN MELNICK, GARNER SIMMONS
66 minutes |
| 1996- |
AN ALBUM IN MONTAGE 34 minutes |
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The Wild Bunch Homevideo releases Directed by Paul Seydor |
| 1995- |
Entertainment Tonight THE WILD BUNCH 5 minutes |
| 1995- |
Sergio Cofferati racconta THE WILD BUNCH 15 minutes |
| 1992- |
WANTED: SAM PECKINPAH RTV Slovenja (Cross of Iron) 28 minutes |
| 1983- |
CINEMA 83: THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND 5 minutes |
| 1975- |
MAN OF ACTION – featurette The Killer Elite 16 minutes |
| 1971- |
ON LOCATION: DUSTIN HOFFMAN shot on Straw Dogs set 30 minutes |
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b/w-footage shot on Straw Dogs set |
| 1969- |
THE MAKING OF THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE 16 minutes |
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16mm Directed by Gary Weis |
| 1964- |
RIDING FOR A FALL - Major Dundee featurette 6 minutes |
| 2002- |
PERSONAL PASSIONS (Peckinpah-Fan) 20 minutes |
| 2000- |
MYTHS & SCANDALS: SAM PECKINPAH 22 minutes |
| 1992- |
THE INTERVIEWS: SAM PECKINPAHs WEST 22 minutes |
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MTV: CULT CORNER Peckinpah on Video 5 minutes |
| Sam Peckinpah projects that never came to be. |
| Films Sam Peckinpah wanted to direct: |
| 1973- |
Emporer of the North |
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Directed by Robert Aldrich |
| 1972- |
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean |
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Directed by Sydney Pollack |
| Films Sam Peckinpah was offered or in talks to direct: |
| 1986- |
The Red-Headed Stranger (with Wille Nelson) |
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Directed by William D. Littliff |
| 1984- |
Songwriter (with Wille Nelson) |
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Songwriter (with Wille Nelson) Directed by Alan Rudolph |
| 1978- |
Superman (Peckinpah turned it down) |
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Directed by Richard Donner |
| 1977- |
A Bridge Too Far (only offered the German sections) |
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Directed by Richard Attenborough |
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Directed by John Guillermin |
| 1971- |
Duck you Sucker (rumor that he was supposed to direct) |
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Development stoped after a lawsuit with WB in 1969. The film never went into production. |
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Offered to Charles Bronson (who responded “I won’t work with a Drunk) (Weddle, p.498) |
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Peckinpah worked on the script but it never went into production. |
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Julian Lennon Mockumentary |
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Something along the lines of A Hard Day's Night or The Rutles written by Graham Chapman. |
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(script stage only, Peckinpah did The Wild Bunch instead) |
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(Script was written for Walt Disney but the film was never made.) |
| Incomplete projects or finished films Sam Peckinpah did scriptwork on: |
| 1980- |
The Texans (written by John Milius, re-written by Peckinpah around 1980) |
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(Written by John Milius, re-written by Peckinpah.) |
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Directed by Tom Gries, based on The Westerner episode Line Camp written by Peckinpah |
| 1965- |
The Glory Guys (The Dice of God By Birney Hoffman) |
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Directed by Arnold Laven (Peckinpah wanted to direct the film) |
| 1961- |
One-eyed Jacks (The Authentic Death of Henry Jones By Charles Neider) |
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Directed by Marlon Brando |
| Rumored Sam Peckinpah projects: |
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The Monkey Wrench Gang (based on the book by Edward Abbey) |
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To have been produced Martin Ranshoff. |
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King of Nothing (mentioned in Variety) |
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To have beene produced by Martin Coheno |
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Medicine Woman (mentioned in Variety) with Mariette Hartley |
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For Whom the Bell tolls Remake (mentioned on TV by Rona Barrett) |
| Books Sam Peckinpah wanted to turn into films: |
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Castaway (James Gould Cozzens) |
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One Eyed Sky (Max Evans) |
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The Hi-Lo Country (Max Evans) |
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Directed by Stephen Frears in 1998 |
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Sometimes a Great Notion (Ken Kesey) |
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Directed by Paul Newman in 1970 |
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Play It As It Lays (Joan Didion) |
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Directed by Frank Perry in 1972 |
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First Blood (David Morrell) |
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Directed by Ted Kotcheff in 1982 |
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Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury) |
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Directed by Jack Clayton in 1983 |
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Under The Volcano (Malcom Lowry) |
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Directed by John Huston in 1984 |
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Hang Tough (Based On City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit By Elmore Leonard) |
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Snowblind: A Brief Career In The Cocaine Trade (Robert Sabbag) |
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