Gregory Peck
Acting
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.
Media of
Gregory Peck
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Filmography of
Gregory Peck
Self (archive footage)
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Archive Footage
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Self (archive footage)
... 2014
Self (archive footage)
... 2013
Self (archive footage)
... 2012
Self (archive footage)
... 2005
Self (archive footage)
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... 2002
Joe Bradley (archive footage)
... 2002
Self / Narrator (voice)
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Self (archive footage)
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Self (archive footage)
... 1999
Self
... 1998
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Self (archive footage)
... 1996
Self - Presenter
... 1995
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John Ballantyne (archive footage) (uncredited)
... 1995
... 1995
Narrator
... 1994
Mr. Ziegfeld (voice)
... 1993
... 1993
Gardner Church
... 1993
Himself - Introduction
... 1993
Lee Heller
... 1991
Andrew Jorgenson
... 1991
Self (archive footage)
... 1991
Self (archive footage)
... 1990
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... 1990
... 1989
Ambrose Bierce
... 1989
... 1988
President
... 1987
... 1987
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Robert Thorn (Archive Footage)
... 1984
Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty
... 1983
Self
... 1982
Col. Lewis Pugh
... 1980
Dr. Josef Mengele
... 1978
Douglas MacArthur
... 1977
Robert Thorn
... 1976
Arch Deans
... 1974
Self (archive footage)
... 1972
Clay Lomax
... 1971
Sheriff Henry Tawes
... 1970
Charles Keith
... 1969
John Hathaway
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Marshal MacKenna
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Sam Varner
... 1968
Captain Ahab (archive footage)
... 1968
Self - Narrator (voice)
... 1967
Prof. David Pollock
... 1966
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David Stillwell
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... 1965
Manuel Artiguez
... 1964
Capt. Josiah "Joe" Newman, MD
... 1963
Atticus Finch
... 1962
Cleve Van Valen
... 1962
Sam Bowden
... 1962
Self (uncredited)
... 1961
Capt. Keith Mallory
... 1961
Dwight Towers
... 1959
F. Scott Fitzgerald
... 1959
Lt. Joe Clemons
... 1959
James McKay
... 1958
Jim Douglass
... 1958
Narrator
... 1958
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Mike Hagen
... 1957
Captain Ahab
... 1956
Tom Rath
... 1956
Self (archive footage)
... 1956
Bill Forrester
... 1954
Col. Steve Van Dyke
... 1954
Self
... 1954
Henry Adams
... 1954
Joe Bradley
... 1953
Captain Jonathan Clark
... 1952
Harry Street
... 1952
King David
... 1951
Narrator: Carpaccio episode (voice)
... 1951
Capt. Richard Lance
... 1951
Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N
... 1951
Jimmy Ringo
... 1950
Brigadier General Frank Savage
... 1949
Self - Philip Schuyler Green (archive footage) (uncredited)
... 1949
Fedja
... 1949
James "Stretch" Dawson
... 1948
Anthony Keane
... 1947
Philip Schuyler Green
... 1947
Robert Wilson
... 1947
Lewton "Lewt" MacCanles
... 1946
Ezra "Penny" Baxter
... 1946
John Ballantine
... 1945
Paul Scott
... 1945
Fr. Francis Chisholm
... 1944
Vladimir
... 1944