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Gregory Peck
Actor, Producer
Born April 5, 1916Died June 12, 2003 (87 years)
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.
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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Filmography
| 2017 | Joseph Smith: American Prophet · as Narrator |
| 2016 | Personne · as Cast |
| 2015 | Trumbo · as Joe Bradley |
| 2009 | The Movie Orgy · as Captain Ahab (archive Footage) |
| 2008 | Hollywood contra Franco · as Harry Street |
| 2008 | Strictly Courtroom · as Atticus Finch |
| 2005 | Filmmakers vs. Tycoons · as Harry Street |
| 2004 | |
| 2003 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains · as Atticus Finch |
| 2002 | Edith Head: The Paramount Years · as (archive Footage) |
| 2000 | Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years · as Robert Thorn |
| 1999 | American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith · as Narrator |
| 1998 | The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg · as Philip Schuyler Green |
| 1998 | Moby Dick (TV Series) · as Father Mapple |
| 1997 | Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years · as Jimmy Ringo |
| 1994 | Baseball (TV Series) · as Various (voice) |
| 1993 | The Portrait · as Gardner Church |
| 1993 | Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey · as John Ballantyne (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1991 | Cape Fear · as Lee Heller |
| 1991 | Other People's Money · as Andrew Jorgenson |
| 1991 | The Will Rogers Follies · as Mr. Ziegfeld (voice) |
| 1989 | Old Gringo · as Ambrose Bierce |
| 1987 | Amazing Grace and Chuck · as President |
| 1984 | Terror in the Aisles · as Robert Thorn |
| 1984 | Ingrid · as John Ballantyne |
| 1983 | The Scarlet and the Black · as Monsignor Hugh O'flaherty |
| 1982 | The Blue and the Gray (TV Series) · as Abraham Lincoln |
| 1980 | The Sea Wolves · as Col. Lewis Pugh |
| 1979 | The Wild West · as Cast |
| 1978 | The Boys from Brazil · as Dr. Josef Mengele |
| 1977 | MacArthur · as Douglas Macarthur |
| 1976 | America at the Movies · as Jimmy Ringo |
| 1976 | The Omen · as Robert Thorn |
| 1974 | Billy Two Hats · as Arch Deans |
| 1971 | |
| 1970 | I Walk the Line · as Sheriff Henry Tawes |
| 1970 | The Hour of Power (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 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 |
| 1966 | Arabesque · as Prof. David Pollock |
| 1965 | Mirage · as David Stillwell |
| 1965 | John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums · as Narrator |
| 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 | The Guns of Navarone · as Capt. Keith Mallory |
| 1959 | Beloved Infidel · as F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 1959 | On the Beach · as Dwight Towers |
| 1959 | Pork Chop Hill · as Lt. Joe Clemons |
| 1958 | The Big Country · as James Mckay |
| 1958 | The Bravados · as Jim Douglass |
| 1957 | Designing Woman · as Mike Hagen |
| 1956 | Moby Dick · as Captain Ahab |
| 1956 | The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit · as Tom Rath |
| 1954 | The Purple Plain · as Bill Forrester |
| 1954 | Night People · as Col. Steve Van Dyke |
| 1954 | The Million Pound Note · as Henry Adams |
| 1953 | Roman Holiday · as Joe Bradley |
| 1952 | The Snows of Kilimanjaro · as Harry Street |
| 1952 | The World in His Arms · as Captain Jonathan Clark |
| 1951 | David and Bathsheba · as King David |
| 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 Great Sinner · as Fedja |
| 1948 | Yellow Sky · as James "stretch" Dawson |
| 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 | The Valley of Decision · as Paul Scott |
| 1944 | The Keys of the Kingdom · as Fr. Francis Chisholm |
| 1944 | Days of Glory · as Vladimir |