Sam Peckinpah directed films: Major Dundee (1965; with Charlton Heston ), The Wild Bunch (1969; with William Holden & Robert Ryan ), and two back-to-back Steve McQueen movies, The Getaway and the rodeo film Junior Bonner (both 1972). In 1973 he co-starred as Melvin Purvis in John Milius 's Dillinger with Warren