Although not complete or refined to his satisfaction, director Sam Peckinpah still preferred the director's cut, as it was more inclusive and thorough than the 105-minute cut.

* 1925 – Sam Peckinpah, American director ( d. 1984 )

Lennon promoted the album with music videos for the two hits made by movie director Sam Peckinpah and producer Martin Lewis.

Lennon's first-ever tour in the spring of 1985 was documented as part of the film Stand By Me: A Portrait Of Julian Lennon — a film profile started by Sam Peckinpah, but completed by Martin Lewis after Peckinpah's death.

Marvin was originally cast as Pike Bishop ( later played by William Holden ) in The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ), but fell out with director Sam Peckinpah and pulled out in order to star in the Western musical Paint Your Wagon ( 1969 ), in which he was top-billed over a singing Clint Eastwood.

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 ).

Sam Peckinpah's nephew is David Peckinpah, who was a television producer and director, as well as a screenplay writer.

David Samuel " Sam " Peckinpah was born February 21, 1925, in Fresno, California, where he attended both grammar school and high school.

It also led a film critic to paraphrase the film's title in an attack on the director, saying, " Bring me the head of Sam Peckinpah ".

* Over a 4-year period German film maker Mike Siegel produced and directed Passion & Poetry-The Ballad Of Sam Peckinpah a two-hour long film about Sam Peckinpah which includes rare Peckinpah-interviews and statements.

Many in Hollywood said the SNL sketch inadvertently gave a portrayal of the real Sam Peckinpah.

" The killer responds, " Sam fuckin ' Peckinpah.

One of the characters has " Sam Peckinpah " tattooed on their arm.

* In the 1993 Denis Leary song " Asshole ", Leary states he is " going to get the Duke ( John Wayne ), John Cassavetes, Lee Marvin, Sam Peckinpah and a case of whiskey then drive down to Texas " before being cut off by a bandmate and getting called an asshole.

* SamPeckinpah. com A discussion forum for fans of Sam Peckinpah

* Senses of Cinema: Sam Peckinpah

* Sam Peckinpah versus Michael Mann

* A Tribute to Sam Peckinpah by ConvoyTM. com

A perceptive journalist, Sam Lubell, has phrased it in the title of one of his books as the revolt of the moderates.

But since 1945, Sam Spade has undergone a metamorphosis ; ;

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

And he said, `` The same fellow who has been running it, Sam Rayburn ''.

But the task is beyond me because I hold it impossible to compress in a sentence or two the complicated and prodigious contributions Sam Rayburn has made as an individual, as a legislator, as a statesman and as a leader and conciliator, to the majestic progress of this Nation.

Sam Rayburn has never had to look back at any of his most devastating fights and ever feel ashamed of his conduct as a combatant under fire or his political manners in the heat of conflicting ambitions.

All but two of my nine terms in the House of Representatives has been served under the Speakership of Sam Rayburn.

I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.

No one has sponsored more progressive and important legislation than has Sam Rayburn.

Sam Caton's Butterwyn ( Scotch Victor-Butler Wyn ), a light bay filly, knows nothing but trot and has worked on the half-mile in 2:30-:36.

The panel's action depends on the return of Representative James W. Trimble, Democrat of Arkansas, who has been siding with Speaker Sam Rayburn's forces in the Rules Committee in moving bills to the floor.

Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

" Ash " Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series of films and he has starred in many low-budget cult films such as Crimewave, Maniac Cop, Bubba Ho-tep, Escape From L. A. and Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat.

One detail has been added to the inside of the collar: the phrase " Keep Pounding ", in honor of the late Panthers player and coach Sam Mills.

Author Sam Harris has argued that we overestimate the relevance of many arguments against the science of morality, arguments he believes scientists happily and rightly disregard in other domains of science like physics.

Also the widespread acceptance of video art as a form has made it possible for British artists such as Sam Taylor-Wood and Isaac Julien to make film works outside of the demands of cinema exhibition.

* In the game series Splinter Cell there are numerous references to the Four Freedoms, with the commanding officer of protagonist Sam Fisher, stating at one point, " this is fifth freedom territory ", indicating that the situation ( in the game plot ) has gotten so grave that one or more of the Four Freedoms are threatened.

Later, in Woody Allen's comic tribute to Bogart Play It Again, Sam ( 1972 ), Bogart's ghost comes to the aid of Allen's bumbling character, a movie critic with woman troubles and whose " sex life has turned into the ' Petrified Forest '".

* 1861 – Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.

" The magazine's art director, Sam Viviano, has suggested that historically, Mad was at its best " whenever you first started reading it.

Among the musicians with whom he has played are Eddie Harris, Lee Konitz, Dave Liebman, Sam Rivers, Bob Mintzer, Terry Gibbs, Buddy DeFranco, Roscoe Mitchell, Evan Parker, Jay McShann, Herbie Mann, Randy Brecker, Jerry Goodman and Ramsey Lewis and many others.

Sam Rayburn is one of the greatest American public figures in the history of our country and I consider that I have been singly honored in the privilege of knowing Sam Rayburn and sharing with him the rights and obligations of a Member of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States.

As a freshman, he had been asked to create Sam and Friends, a 5-minute puppet show for WRC-TV.

Kim Young Sam visited Moscow from June 2 to June 10, 1989, as the Kremlin announced that it would allow some 300, 000 Soviet-Koreans who had been on the Soviet island of Sahkalin since the end of World War II to return permanently to South Korea.

An enthusiast of Tangram puzzles, Loyd published a book of seven hundred unique Tangram designs and a fanciful history of the origin of the Tangram, which was, however, presented as true, and has been described as " Sam Loyd's Most Successful Hoax ".

( The first had been Frank Cady, who played general store owner Sam Drucker on Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and The Beverly Hillbillies.

Some of his more successful and critically acclaimed movies, Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire, for example, have been the result of fruitful collaborations with avant-garde authors Peter Handke and Sam Shepard.

Harry, Albert, Sam and their Jewish parents emigrated to North America from the part of Poland that had been subjugated to the Russian Empire following the 18th-century partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth near present-day Ostroleka, Poland.

She had also been linked to art dealer and Greta Garbo confidante Sam Green, who is mentioned in Lennon's will.

After he's called in to investigate the brutal killing of Joseph Samuels ( Sam Levene ), who was found dead at his home, police investigator Finlay ( Robert Young ) discovers there may be a murderer among a group of demobilized soldiers, who had been seen with Samuels and his female friend at a hotel bar that night.

As Sam Peltzman puts it " Economists know what steps would improve the efficiency of HSE safety, and environmental regulation, and they have not been bashful advocates of them.

Two examples of this are the Acme Wild-Cat, which had been used on Elmer Fudd and Sam Sheepdog ( which doesn't maul its intended victim ); and Acme Bumblebees in one-fifth bottles ( which sting Wile E. Coyote ).

In the Quantum Leap episode " The Great Spontini ", Scott Bakula's character, Dr. Sam Beckett, leaps into an amateur magician in 1974 who aspires to appear on Bill Bixby's The Magician ; however, owing to his partial amnesia, Dr. Beckett, at first, can only recall Bixby's connection with The Incredible Hulk, which had not been made at that time.

Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first President of Namibia watched by Nelson Mandela ( who had been released from prison shortly beforehand ) and representatives from 147 countries, including 20 heads of state.

President Sam Nujoma has been vocal in his support of Zimbabwe and its president Robert Mugabe.

In addition, there have been many spoofs and sequels, including 1975's The Black Bird, a spoof featuring George Segal as Sam Spade, Jr., and Elisha Cook Jr. and Lee Patrick reprising their roles from the 1941 film.