Fern Lea Peter was born on March 9, 1931 in Alameda County, California, USA as Fern Natalie Peckinpah. She is known for her work on Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004), A Justified Life: Sam Peckinpah and the High Country (2006) and Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah (2005).