Gregory Peck

Acting · 2.6 popularity

Age

110

Movies

120

Born: April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003
From: La Jolla, California, USA

Biography

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.

Works

120 films

Cape Fear

19917.3

Roman Holiday

19537.9

To Kill a Mockingbird

19628.0

The Omen

19767.4

The Guns of Navarone

19617.3

The Million Pound Note

19547.0

Cape Fear

19627.5

Moby Dick

19567.1

How the West Was Won

19627.0

Spellbound

19457.4

On the Beach

19596.7

The Big Country

19587.6

Mackenna's Gold

19696.6

The Boys from Brazil

19786.7

The Bravados

19586.6

Duel in the Sun

19466.4

Shoot Out

19716.3

Pork Chop Hill

19596.7

Mickey's 50

19789.0

The Sea Wolves

19805.9

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

19566.7

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

19876.0

Arabesque

19666.3

The Scarlet and the Black

19837.0

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

19517.0

Other People's Money

19916.1

The Movie Orgy

19686.7

The Gunfighter

19507.4

MacArthur

19776.2

Twelve O'Clock High

19497.2

Night People

19546.2

The Keys of the Kingdom

19447.1

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

19525.9

Yellow Sky

19487.0

Mirage

19657.1

The Paradine Case

19476.3

Gentleman's Agreement

19477.0

Lykke og krone

19629.0

The Yearling

19466.7

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

20027.7

The Stalking Moon

19685.9

Night of 100 Stars

19825.8

Marooned

19696.0

David and Bathsheba

19515.9

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

19957.7

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

19937.6

James Bond: The First 21 Years

19836.7

The Valley of Decision

19457.2

Billy Two Hats

19745.8

Directed by William Wyler

1986

The Making of Moonwalker

1989

Only the Valiant

19516.5

The Chairman

19695.5

Beloved Infidel

19596.0

Anthony Quinn: An Original

19906.8

The Purple Plain

19546.4

Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret

1990

The Fabulous Allan Carr

20174.5

The Great Sinner

19496.8

Designing Woman

19576.7

I Walk the Line

19705.9

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

19917.5

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand

20048.1

Behold a Pale Horse

19646.0

Captain Newman, M.D.

19636.7

Old Gringo

19895.6

The Extraordinary Seaman

19693.4

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

19727.3

The Making of 'Cape Fear'

20017.4

Intimate Portrait: Lauren Bacall

199910.0

The World in His Arms

19526.5

NBC: The First Fifty Years

1976

Close Up

20129.5

Amazing Grace and Chuck

19875.8

The Macomber Affair

19476.8

Days of Glory

19445.9

Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'

2001

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

19957.8

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

1989

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

19966.7

Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration

19908.7

The All-Star Christmas Show

19586.0

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

19955.8

Pictura

195110.0

A Conversation with Gregory Peck

19997.6

Sinatra: 80 Years My Way

1995

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

19955.0

Fun in the Big Country

1958

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

19886.7

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

19614.4

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

19997.8

Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

19967.5

Salute to Stan Laurel

19658.0

The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue

1993

Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words

19936.5

Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur

20226.7

The Hidden World

19585.7

Stars of Cabaret

1956

To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View

2022

Uncertain Verification

19656.6

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

19736.5

Boom on Paris

19545.7

Discovering Audrey Hepburn

20158.0

The Portrait

19936.0

John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums

19665.8

The Making of 'Cape Fear'

2001

The Curse of 'The Omen'

20056.4

The Art Director

19496.7

Fallout

20137.0

Look at Life: All in a Day's Work

1969

Legenden: Audrey Hepburn

20056.0

American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith

19996.5

Fearful Symmetry

19985.3

Island of Whales

19909.0

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

20028.0

The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann

199410.0

Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren

19897.5

Africa

19678.0

Restoring Roman Holiday

20027.7

The Infinite Journey

1970