Sam Peckinpah was an American.
 Peckinpah's great-grandfather, Rice Peckinpaugh, a merchant and farmer in Indiana, moved to Humboldt County, California, in the 1850s, working in the logging business, and changed the spelling of the family name to "Peckinpah"
From 1979 until his death, Peckinpah lived at the Murray Hotel in Livingston, Montana

