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David Samuel " Sam " Peckinpah ( February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984 ) was an American film director and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ).

He was known for the innovative and explicit depiction of action and violence, as well as his revisionist approach to the Western genre.