Gregory Peck

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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.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1916-04-05
  • event Death Date 2003-06-12
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 14.9
  • info Birth Place La Jolla, California, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Gregory Peck

8.1

To Kill a Mockingbird

1962-12-20

7.3

Cape Fear

1991-11-13

7.4

The Omen

1976-06-25

7.9

Roman Holiday

1953-08-26

7.1

Moby Dick

1956-06-27

6.2

The Movie Orgy

1968-01-01

7.4

Spellbound

1945-11-08

7.3

The Guns of Navarone

1961-04-27

6.7

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

1996-04-06

5.9

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

1952-10-08

6.9

Yellow Sky

1948-12-24

7.4

Cape Fear

1962-04-12

6.1

Other People's Money

1991-10-18

6.2

MacArthur

1977-07-15

6.3

Arabesque

1966-05-04

6.8

Captain Horatio Hornblower

1951-04-10

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Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'

2001-10-21

6.2

The Paradine Case

1947-12-31

7

How the West Was Won

1962-11-02

5.7

Billy Two Hats

1974-03-07

6.3

Duel in the Sun

1946-12-31

7

Gentleman's Agreement

1947-11-11

6.5

Designing Woman

1957-05-16

7.7

The Big Country

1958-09-30

6.6

Captain Newman, M.D.

1963-12-25

6.8

The Million Pound Note

1954-01-07

5.9

Marooned

1969-12-11

6.9

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

1956-04-12

6.2

The Macomber Affair

1947-04-20

6.6

On the Beach

1959-12-16

5.8

David and Bathsheba

1951-08-10

5.9

The Stalking Moon

1968-12-25

6.5

Pork Chop Hill

1959-05-29

5.6

Old Gringo

1989-09-13

7.1

Twelve O'Clock High

1949-12-21

7.3

The Valley of Decision

1945-05-03

6.5

The Bravados

1958-06-25

7

The Scarlet and the Black

1983-02-02

6.7

The Boys from Brazil

1978-10-05

9

Close Up

2012-09-30

7.2

The Gunfighter

1950-06-23

7

The Keys of the Kingdom

1944-12-15

6.5

Mackenna's Gold

1969-03-18

6.5

The Yearling

1946-12-18

6.9

Mirage

1965-10-29

5.8

The Sea Wolves

1980-07-03

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Legenden: Audrey Hepburn

2005-08-01

5.7

I Walk the Line

1970-11-18

6.4

The Purple Plain

1954-09-14

6.5

The World in His Arms

1952-10-09

7.9

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

1995-05-21

6.2

Only the Valiant

1951-04-13

5.9

Night People

1954-03-11

5.7

Days of Glory

1944-06-16

6.3

Shoot Out

1971-07-02

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Fun in the Big Country

1958-01-01

5.5

The Chairman

1969-06-25

6

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1972-01-10

5.7

The Portrait

1993-02-13

6.4

Beloved Infidel

1959-11-17

7.2

The Making of 'Cape Fear'

2001-09-18

6.6

Uncertain Verification

1965-04-30

6.7

The Great Sinner

1949-06-29

6

The Hidden World

1958-01-01

7.3

Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren

1989-12-01

7.4

A Conversation with Gregory Peck

1999-10-14

4.3

Fearful Symmetry

1998-01-01

5.4

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

1995-08-24

5.9

Behold a Pale Horse

1964-08-14

7

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

2002-08-25

5.4

Boom on Paris

1954-02-19

3.3

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

1961-12-31

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Pictura

1951-06-01

0

To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View

2022-10-11

5.7

Amazing Grace and Chuck

1987-05-22

7

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

2002-11-26

0

Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret

1990-08-27

7

Restoring Roman Holiday

2002-11-26

8.2

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand

2004-03-30

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Sinatra: 80 Years My Way

1995-12-14

6

Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words

1993-01-01

6

Roger Moore: A Matter Of Class

1995-11-16

5

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

1995-03-20

7

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

1991-03-10

7

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

1993-08-11

6.5

Anthony Quinn: An Original

1990-09-10

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Africa

1967-09-10

0

The Making of 'Cape Fear'

2001-01-01

5

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

1966-04-10

6.7

Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur

2022-11-28

7

Fallout

2013-07-26

8

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

1995-01-01

6

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

1973-01-01

9.3

Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration

1990-02-04

7.6

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

1999-01-23

0

The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue

1993-11-26

8

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

1987-05-18

0

The Art Director

1949-11-12

0

Salute to Stan Laurel

1965-11-23

0

The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann

1994-10-06

0

Stars of Cabaret

1956-01-01

6.3

The Love Goddesses

1965-03-03

7.5

Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

1996-11-25

7

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014-02-01

0

Directed by William Wyler

1986-05-01

6

The Curse of 'The Omen'

2005-10-26

6.7

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

1988-03-08

6

Night of 100 Stars

1982-03-08

4.2

The Dick Powell Show

1961-09-26

6.5

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948-06-20

4.5

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

1973-04-02

6.9

The Blue and the Gray

1982-11-14

7

The Oscars

1953-03-19

7.4

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962-10-01

7.2

The Kennedy Center Honors

1978-12-28

5

Talking Pictures

2013-01-05

5.9

Moby Dick

1998-03-15

6.5

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948-06-20

0

The Pearl Bailey Show

1971-01-23

6

V.I.P. Schaukel

1971-05-09

7.3

Baseball

1994-09-18

0

Spécial cinéma

1974-09-25

9

Bambi Awards

1948-01-01

5

Tony Awards

1956-04-01

6

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975-01-12

6.2

Champs-Elysées

1982-01-16

10

Star Life

1990-08-04

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Abendschau

2000-05-04

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Reflets de Cannes

1954-03-25

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