Gregory Peck

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1916-04-05

Deathday 2003-06-12 (87 years old)

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

Gregory Peck

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.

Known For

Actor

2022
Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur

as Self (archive footage)

2014
And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2013
Fallout

as Self (archive footage)

2013
Talking Pictures

as Self (archive footage)

2012
Close Up

as Self (archive footage)

2005
The Curse of 'The Omen'

as Self (archive footage)

2005
Legenden: Audrey Hepburn

as Self (archive footage)

2002
Edith Head: The Paramount Years

as (archive footage)

2002
Restoring Roman Holiday

as Joe Bradley (archive footage)

2001
Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'

as Self (archive footage)

2000
Abendschau

as Self

1999
1998
1998
Moby Dick

as Father Mapple

1996
Ingrid Bergman Remembered

as Self (archive footage)

1995
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way

as Self - Presenter

1995
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

as John Ballantyne (archive footage) (uncredited)

1994
Baseball

as Various (voice)

1993
1993
The Portrait

as Gardner Church

1993
Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words

as Himself - Introduction

1991
Cape Fear

as Lee Heller

1991
Other People's Money

as Andrew Jorgenson

1991
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

as Self (archive footage)

1990
Anthony Quinn: An Original

as Self (archive footage)

1990
Star Life

as Self (archive footage)

1989
Old Gringo

as Ambrose Bierce

1987
1983
The Scarlet and the Black

as Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty

1982
1982
The Blue and the Gray

as Abraham Lincoln

1982
1980
The Sea Wolves

as Col. Lewis Pugh

1978
The Boys from Brazil

as Dr. Josef Mengele

1977
MacArthur

as Douglas MacArthur

1976
The Omen

as Robert Thorn

1974
Billy Two Hats

as Arch Deans

1974
1973
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

as Self (archive footage)

1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory

as Self (archive footage)

1971
Shoot Out

as Clay Lomax

1971
1970
I Walk the Line

as Sheriff Henry Tawes

1969
Marooned

as Charles Keith

1969
The Chairman

as John Hathaway

1969
Mackenna's Gold

as Marshal MacKenna

1968
The Stalking Moon

as Sam Varner

1968
The Movie Orgy

as Captain Ahab (archive footage)

1967
Africa

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1966
Arabesque

as Prof. David Pollock

1965
Mirage

as David Stillwell

1965
Uncertain Verification

as (archive footage)

1964
Behold a Pale Horse

as Manuel Artiguez

1963
Captain Newman, M.D.

as Capt. Josiah "Joe" Newman, MD

1962
To Kill a Mockingbird

as Atticus Finch

1962
How the West Was Won

as Cleve Van Valen

1962
Cape Fear

as Sam Bowden

1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as Self (uncredited)

1961
The Guns of Navarone

as Capt. Keith Mallory

1961
The Dick Powell Show

as Self - Guest Host

1959
On the Beach

as Dwight Towers

1959
Beloved Infidel

as F. Scott Fitzgerald

1959
Pork Chop Hill

as Lt. Joe Clemons

1958
The Big Country

as James McKay

1958
The Bravados

as Jim Douglass

1958
The Hidden World

as Narrator

1957
Designing Woman

as Mike Hagen

1956
Moby Dick

as Captain Ahab

1956
Stars of Cabaret

as Self (archive footage)

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

1954
The Purple Plain

as Bill Forrester

1954
Night People

as Col. Steve Van Dyke

1954
1954
The Million Pound Note

as Henry Adams

1954
1953
Roman Holiday

as Joe Bradley

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1952
The World in His Arms

as Captain Jonathan Clark

1952
The Snows of Kilimanjaro

as Harry Street

1951
David and Bathsheba

as King David

1951
Pictura

as Narrator: Carpaccio episode (voice)

1951
Only the Valiant

as Capt. Richard Lance

1951
Captain Horatio Hornblower

as Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N

1950
The Gunfighter

as Jimmy Ringo

1949
Twelve O'Clock High

as Brigadier General Frank Savage

1949
The Art Director

as Self - Philip Schuyler Green (archive footage) (uncredited)

1949
1948
Yellow Sky

as James "Stretch" Dawson

1948
Bambi Awards

as Self (archive footage)

1947
The Paradine Case

as Anthony Keane

1947
Gentleman's Agreement

as Philip Schuyler Green

1947
The Macomber Affair

as Robert Wilson

1946
Duel in the Sun

as Lewton "Lewt" McCanles

1946
The Yearling

as Ezra "Penny" Baxter

1945
Spellbound

as John Ballantine

1945
1944
The Keys of the Kingdom

as Fr. Francis Chisholm

1944
Days of Glory

as Vladimir

Producer

1993
The Portrait

as Executive Producer

1974
The Dove

as Producer

1963
1962
1959
Pork Chop Hill

as Executive Producer

1958
The Big Country

as Producer

1947
The Macomber Affair

as Co-Producer