Peckinpah's parents were David Edward Peckinpah and Fern Louise Church, and he is a cousin of former New York Yankees shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh.

The first film resembles Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs ( 1971 ), in that it's about a farmer whose family is taken hostage by five UPA guerrillas, and he has to resort to his own ingenuity, plus reserves of violence that he never knew he possessed, to defeat them.

Peckinpah's maternal grandfather was Denver Church, a cattle rancher, Superior Court judge and United States Congressman of a California district including Fresno County.

Born in Bakersfield, California, a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA ), Harvey first established himself within the film community by programming the director's cut of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch at the Beverly Canon Theater in 1974.

Al Lettieri was brought to Peckinpah's attention by producer Albert Ruddy who was working with the actor on The Godfather.

Butch Cassidy's outlaw gang was actually called " The Wild Bunch "; this was changed, in the film, to " The Hole-In-The-Wall Gang " to avoid confusion with Sam Peckinpah's recently released film The Wild Bunch.

Both sides of Peckinpah's family migrated to the American West by covered wagon in the mid-nineteenth century.

The lyrical screenplay by Jeb Rosenbrook, depicting the changing times of society and binding family ties, appealed to Peckinpah's tastes.

* Peckinpah's use of violence was parodied by Monty Python in Sam Peckinpah's " Salad Days ", one of the more controversial episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which a lovely day out for an upper-class English family turns into a blood-soaked orgy of severed limbs and gushing wounds.

The lyrical screenplay by Jeb Rosebrook, depicting the changing times of society and binding family ties, appealed to Peckinpah's tastes.

Producers Peter S. Davis and William N. Panzer were undaunted, as they felt that having Peckinpah's name attached to The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ) would lend the suspense thriller an air of respectability.

His middle name is in honor of Garret Peckinpah, her friend Sandy Peckinpah's son, who had died suddenly of meningitis at age 16.

Davis and Panzer were undaunted, as they felt that having Peckinpah's name attached to their film would lend it an air of respectability.

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.

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

Sam Peckinpah's first two choices for the role of Deke Thornton were Richard Harris ( who had co-starred in Major Dundee ) and Brian Keith ( who had worked with Peckinpah on The Westerner ( 1960 ) and The Deadly Companions ( 1961 )).

Coburn teamed with director Sam Peckinpah for the 1973 film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid ( they had worked together in 1965 on Major Dundee ; the film's producer, Jerry Bresler, took editing responsibilities away from Peckinpah during post-production, resulting in Peckinpah's becoming furious over what he claimed was the producer's deliberate sabotage of his film, and he threatened the studio with a lawsuit.

Columbia relented -- mainly because of a promise made to them by star Charlton Heston that he would never work for the studio again if they didn't let Peckinpah edit the film the way he wanted -- and acceded to some of Peckinpah's demands, but the finished product was still not satisfactory to him and he disowned it ).

Peckinpah and Coburn remained close friends up until Peckinpah's death in 1984.

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.

The restored cut, at 115 minutes, is thus not the traditional " director's cut ," but is closest to the director's preferred version, as it was reconstructed based on Peckinpah's notes, and according to his style in general.

Lamorna was the location used for the shooting of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 thriller Straw Dogs.

" He then puts on a Stetson, and the sketch segues into Hugh Walpole's Rogue Cheddar and a link to the Sam Peckinpah's " Salad Days " sketch.

Peckinpah's films generally deal with the conflict between values and ideals, and the corruption of violence in human society.

Peckinpah's combative personality, marked by years of alcohol and drug abuse, affected his professional legacy.

At that time, it was a rural area undergoing extreme change, and this exposure is believed to have affected Peckinpah's Western films later in life.

Nevertheless, Peckinpah's association with Siegel established him as an emerging screenwriter and potential director.

Peckinpah's reputation as a hard-living brute with a taste for violence, inspired by the content in his most popular films and in many ways perpetuated by himself, affected his artistic legacy.

The Deadly Companions passed largely without notice and is the least known of Peckinpah's films.

Stone, Jr. Producer Richard Lyons admired Peckinpah's work on The Westerner and offered him the directing job.

New York critics also discovered Peckinpah's unusual Western, with Newsweek naming Ride the High Country the best film of the year and Time placing it on its best-ten list.

By some critics, the film is admired as one of Peckinpah's greatest works.

Peckinpah's next film, Major Dundee ( 1965 ), was the first of Peckinpah's many unfortunate experiences with the major studios that financed his productions.

Peckinpah's first big-budget film had a large cast, including Heston, Richard Harris, James Coburn, Senta Berger, Jim Hutton, Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, R. G. Armstrong and L. Q. Jones.

* The great-grandfather of the Martian negotiator Amanda Carter is named John Carter, a reference to the Edgar Rice Burroughs character John Carter of Mars.

* William H. Rice, his maternal great-grandfather

Wine merchant Friedrich Karl Christian Huth, whose great-grandfather had been kellermeister ( cellar-master ) to King Friedrich II back in 1769, had founded the firm in 1871 and taken over the former building in Potsdamer Straße on 23 March 1877.

His great-grandfather, Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal, from whom his family inherited the noble title " Edler von Hofmannsthal ," was a Jewish merchant ennobled by the Austrian emperor.

His son and grandson -- respectively the great-grandfather and grandfather of James Martineau -- were surgeons in the same city, while his father was a manufacturer and merchant.

Henry, great-grandfather of the 1st Earl, was a substantial wine merchant and shipper, who represented Weymouth in the House of Commons four times.

James Morrison, great-grandfather of the first Baron, was a Hampshire innkeeper's son who became the greatest textile wholesaler in England and a prominent merchant banker.

Rantzen's great-grandfather moved to a more comfortable neighbourhood with the help of his brother-in-law, Barney Barnato ( born Barnett Isaacs ), who had become extremely wealthy as a diamond merchant in South Africa.