biography
pronunciation:
[pekinpah]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1925–84)
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| biography:
| Film director, born in Fresno, California, USA. He started work on television Westerns, and directed his first feature, The Deadly Companions, in 1961. He portrayed a harshly realistic view of the lawless US West, accentuating the inherent violence, as in Major Dundee (1965) and The Wild Bunch (1969). His personal life was equally turbulent, his heavy drinking and quarrels with the studios restricting his creative output in his later years, and although he retired to a mountain retreat in 1978, he died in Los Angeles not long after. |
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