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

Born: La Jolla, California, USA, 1916-04-05

Died: 2003-06-12

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Days of Glory	Vladimir	56
2	1944	The Keys of the Kingdom	Fr. Francis Chisholm	70
3	1945	The Valley of Decision	Paul Scott	73
4	1945	Spellbound	John Ballantine	74
5	1946	The Yearling	Ezra "Penny" Baxter	66
6	1946	Duel in the Sun	Lewton "Lewt" McCanles	63
7	1947	The Macomber Affair	Robert Wilson	62
8	1947	Gentleman's Agreement	Philip Schuyler Green	70
9	1947	The Paradine Case	Anthony Keane	62
10	1948	Yellow Sky	James "Stretch" Dawson	69
11	1949	The Great Sinner	Fedja	66
12	1949	The Art Director	Self - Philip Schuyler Green (archive footage) (uncredited)	0
13	1949	Twelve O'Clock High	Brigadier General Frank Savage	71
14	1950	The Gunfighter	Jimmy Ringo	73
15	1951	Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.	Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N	69
16	1951	Only the Valiant	Capt. Richard Lance	63
17	1951	Pictura	Narrator: Carpaccio episode (voice)	0
18	1951	David and Bathsheba	King David	57
19	1952	The Snows of Kilimanjaro	Harry Street	59
20	1952	The World in His Arms	Captain Jonathan Clark	65
21	1953	Roman Holiday	Joe Bradley	79
22	1954	The Million Pound Note	Henry Adams	68
23	1954	Boom on Paris	Self	54
24	1954	Night People	Col. Steve Van Dyke	59
25	1954	The Purple Plain	Bill Forrester	64
26	1956	Stars of Cabaret	Self (archive footage)	0
27	1956	The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit	Tom Rath	68
28	1956	Moby Dick	Captain Ahab	71
29	1957	Designing Woman	Mike Hagen	66
30	1958	Fun in the Big Country	Self	0
31	1958	The Hidden World	Narrator	60
32	1958	The Bravados	Jim Douglass	65
33	1958	The Big Country	James McKay	76
34	1958	The All-Star Christmas Show		60
35	1959	Pork Chop Hill	Lt. Joe Clemons	65
36	1959	Beloved Infidel	F. Scott Fitzgerald	60
37	1959	On the Beach	Dwight Towers	66
38	1961	The Guns of Navarone	Capt. Keith Mallory	73
39	1961	Hollywood: The Selznick Years	Self (uncredited)	33
40	1962	Cape Fear	Sam Bowden	74
41	1962	How the West Was Won	Cleve Van Valen	70
42	1962	To Kill a Mockingbird	Atticus Finch	80
43	1963	Captain Newman, M.D.	Capt. Josiah "Joe" Newman, MD	65
44	1964	Behold a Pale Horse	Manuel Artiguez	59
45	1965	Uncertain Verification	(archive footage)	66
46	1965	Mirage	David Stillwell	70
47	1965	Salute to Stan Laurel	Self	0
48	1966	John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums	Narrator	50
49	1966	Arabesque	Prof. David Pollock	62
50	1967	Africa	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
51	1968	The Movie Orgy	Captain Ahab (archive footage)	65
52	1968	The Stalking Moon	Sam Varner	59
53	1969	Look at Life: All in a Day's Work	Self	0
54	1969	Mackenna's Gold	Marshal MacKenna	66
55	1969	The Extraordinary Seaman	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	26
56	1969	The Chairman	John Hathaway	55
57	1969	Marooned	Charles Keith	59
58	1970	I Walk the Line	Sheriff Henry Tawes	58
59	1971	Shoot Out	Clay Lomax	63
60	1972	Hollywood: The Dream Factory	Self (archive footage)	60
61	1973	The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor	Self (archive footage)	60
62	1974	Billy Two Hats	Arch Deans	57
63	1976	The Omen	Robert Thorn	74
64	1977	MacArthur	Douglas MacArthur	63
65	1978	The Boys from Brazil	Dr. Josef Mengele	67
66	1978	Mickey's 50	Self	0
67	1980	The Sea Wolves	Col. Lewis Pugh	59
68	1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self	67
69	1983	The Scarlet and the Black	Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty	70
70	1986	Directed by William Wyler	Self	0
71	1987	Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood	Self	57
72	1987	Amazing Grace and Chuck	President	57
73	1988	The Making of Moonwalker	Self	0
74	1988	Gregory Peck: His Own Man	Self	67
75	1989	Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre	Himself	0
76	1989	Old Gringo	Ambrose Bierce	56
77	1989	Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren	Narrator	73
78	1990	Island of Whales	Narrator (voice)	0
79	1990	Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration	Self	88
80	1990	Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret	Self	0
81	1990	Anthony Quinn: An Original	Self (archive footage)	65
82	1991	Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star	Self (archive footage)	70
83	1991	Other People's Money	Andrew Jorgenson	61
84	1991	Cape Fear	Lee Heller	73
85	1993	Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words	Himself - Introduction	60
86	1993	The Portrait	Gardner Church	57
87	1993	Audrey Hepburn: Remembered	Self	70
88	1993	The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue	Mr. Ziegfeld (voice)	0
89	1994	The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann	Narrator	0
90	1995	Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick	Self	80
91	1995	Charlton Heston: For All Seasons	Self	50
92	1995	Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey	John Ballantyne (archive footage) (uncredited)	54
93	1995	Roger Moore: A Matter of Class	Self	60
94	1995	Sinatra: 80 Years My Way	Self - Presenter	0
95	1996	Ingrid Bergman Remembered	Self (archive footage)	67
96	1996	Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman	Self	75
97	1998	Fearful Symmetry	Self	43
98	1999	Intimate Portrait: Lauren Bacall	Self	0
99	1999	Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood	Self (archive footage)	76
100	1999	A Conversation with Gregory Peck	Self	74
101	1999	American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith	Narrator	52
102	2001	The Making of 'Cape Fear'	Self	0
103	2001	The Making of 'Cape Fear'	Self	73
104	2001	Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'	Self (archive footage)	0
105	2002	From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff	Self / Narrator (voice)	70
106	2002	Edith Head: The Paramount Years	(archive footage)	75
107	2002	Restoring Roman Holiday	Joe Bradley (archive footage)	70
108	2004	Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand	Self	81
109	2005	Legenden: Audrey Hepburn	Self (archive footage)	0
110	2005	The Curse of 'The Omen'	Self (archive footage)	60
111	2012	Close Up	Self (archive footage)	95
112	2013	Fallout	Self (archive footage)	70
113	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
114	2022	To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View	Archive Footage	0
115	2022	Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur	Self (archive footage)	70

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Bambi-Verleihung	Self (archive footage)	90
2	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
3	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
4	1954	Reflets de Cannes	Self	20
5	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
6	1961	The Dick Powell Show	Self - Guest Host	55
7	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
8	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
9	1971	The Pearl Bailey Show	Self	0
10	1971	V.I.P. Schaukel	Self	60
11	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
12	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self	0
13	1974	Dinah!	Self	67
14	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
15	1978	The Kennedy Center Honors	Self	74
16	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
17	1982	The Blue and the Gray	Abraham Lincoln	69
18	1994	Baseball	(voice)	73
19	1998	Moby Dick	Father Mapple	59
20	2013	Talking Pictures	Self (archive footage)	50

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