Gregory Peck

Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor and one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck the 12th-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. After studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner, Peck began appearing in stage productions, acting in over 50 plays and three Broadway productions. He first gained critical success in The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), a John M. Stahl–directed drama which earned him his first Academy Award nomination. He starred in a series of successful films, including romantic-drama The Valley of Decision (1944), Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), and family film The Yearling (1946). He encountered lukewarm commercial reviews at the end of the 1940s, his performances including The Paradine Case (1947) and The Great Sinner (1948). Peck reached global recognition in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing back-to-back in the book-to-film adaptation of Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) and biblical drama David and Bathsheba (1951). He starred alongside Ava Gardner in The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) and Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday (1953), which earned Peck a Golden Globe award. Other notable films in which he appeared include Moby Dick (1956, and its 1998 mini-series), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Cape Fear (1962, and its 1991 remake), The Omen (1976), and The Boys from Brazil (1978). Throughout his career, he often portrayed protagonists with "fiber" within a moral setting. Gentleman's Agreement (1947) centered on topics of antisemitism, while Peck's character in Twelve O'Clock High (1949) dealt with post-traumatic stress disorder during World War II. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), an adaptation of the modern classic of the same name which revolved around racial inequality, for which he received universal acclaim. In 1983, he starred opposite Christopher Plummer in The Scarlet and The Black as Hugh O'Flaherty, a Catholic priest who saved thousands of escaped Allied POWs and Jewish people in Rome during the Second World War. Peck was also active in politics, challenging the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 and was regarded as a political opponent by President Richard Nixon. President Lyndon B. Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. Peck died in his sleep from bronchopneumonia at the age of 87.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	0.038
Birthday	1916-04-05
Place of Birth	La Jolla, California, USA
Also Known As	Eldred Gregory Peck, グレゴリー・ペック, エルドレッド・グレゴリー・ペック, Грегорі Пек, گریگوری پک,

To Kill a Mockingbird

Cape Fear

The Omen

Roman Holiday

Moby Dick

The Movie Orgy

Spellbound

The Guns of Navarone

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Yellow Sky

Cape Fear

Other People's Money

MacArthur

Arabesque

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'

The Paradine Case

How the West Was Won

Billy Two Hats

Duel in the Sun

Gentleman's Agreement

Designing Woman

The Big Country

Captain Newman, M.D.

The Million Pound Note

Marooned

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

The Macomber Affair

On the Beach

David and Bathsheba

The Stalking Moon

Pork Chop Hill

Old Gringo

Twelve O'Clock High

The Valley of Decision

The Bravados

The Scarlet and the Black

The Boys from Brazil

Close Up

The Gunfighter

The Keys of the Kingdom

Mackenna's Gold

The Yearling

Mirage

The Sea Wolves

Legenden: Audrey Hepburn

I Walk the Line

The Purple Plain

The World in His Arms

Only the Valiant

Night People

Days of Glory

Shoot Out

Fun in the Big Country

The Chairman

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

The Portrait

Beloved Infidel

The Making of 'Cape Fear'

Uncertain Verification

The Great Sinner

The Hidden World

Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren

A Conversation with Gregory Peck

Fearful Symmetry

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

Behold a Pale Horse

From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff

Boom on Paris

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

Pictura

To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View

Amazing Grace and Chuck

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret

Restoring Roman Holiday

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand

Sinatra: 80 Years My Way

Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words