Peckinpah

American  

[pek-uhn-pah] / ˈpɛk ənˌpɑ /

noun

1. David Samuel Sam, 1925–84, U.S. film director and screenwriter.

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Peckinpah British  

/ ˈpɛkɪnˌpɑː /

noun

1. Sam ( uel David ). 1926–84, US film director, esp of Westerns, such as The Wild Bunch (1969). Among his other films are Straw Dogs (1971), Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), and Cross of Iron (1977)

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Example Sentences

Other notable roles include “Slaughter,” with Jim Brown, the Sam Peckinpah television film “The Battle of Cable Hogue” and “The Poseidon Adventure” in which she played Linda Rogo, Ernest Borgnine’s character’s wife.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2023

Next, the 26-minute, memory-overloaded “Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah Anecdotes” has a collection of actors discuss working with the master director including Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Ernest Borgnine, David Warner, Ali MacGraw, L.Q.

From Washington Times • Jul. 8, 2021

According to the Guardian, this macho, West Virginian-set crime thriller feels like “something that got cooked up after a bender guzzling a Sam Peckinpah box set.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2020

It’s open about its influences, serving them up omakase-style: the John Woo course, the Sam Peckinpah course, the Wong Kar-wai palate cleanser.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2019

Those led to parts in movies by such industry greats as Sam Peckinpah, Elia Kazan and Nicolas Roeg.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2019