In this Six-Gun Justice Conversation, Rich talks with writer/producer Garner Simmons author of Peckinpah: A Portrait in Montage - The Definitive Edition: 50 Years After "The Wild Bunch" from the Writer Who Knew Him Best, a biography of the late filmmaker Sam Peckinpah, which was released in 1982, with a new edition currently available. Peckinpah of course, is the director of such Six-Gun Justice favorites as Ride the High Country, Major Dundee, The Wild Bunch, Junior Bonner, and others.
A member of the Writers Guild of America, the Writers Guild of Canada, the Directors Guild of America, and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Simmons was born in Chicago, graduated from Colgate University and Northwestern University’s Graduate School of Communication, and worked in both Television and Motion Pictures as a writer, producer and director.