Gregory Peck
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1916-04-05
Day of Death
2003-06-12 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
La Jolla, California, USA
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.
Acting
(2022)
To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View
as Archive Footage
(2022)
Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur
as Self (archive footage)
(2015)
Trumbo
as Joe Bradley (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2014)
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(2013)
Fallout
as Self (archive footage)
(2012)
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
(2005)
Legenden: Audrey Hepburn
as Self (archive footage)
(2005)
The Curse of 'The Omen'
as Self (archive footage)
(2004)
(2002)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
as (archive footage)
(2002)
From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff
as Self / Narrator (voice)
(2002)
Restoring Roman Holiday
as Joe Bradley (archive footage)
(2001)
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
as Self
(2001)
Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
as Self (archive footage)
(2001)
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
as Self
(1999)
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(1999)
(1999)
American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith
as Narrator
(1999)
(1998)
Fearful Symmetry
as Self
(1996)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
(1996)
(1995)
(1995)
(1995)
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
as John Ballantyne (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1995)
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
as Self - Presenter
(1995)
(1994)
The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann
as Narrator
(1993)
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
as Self
(1993)
The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue
as Mr. Ziegfeld (voice)
(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)
(1990)
(1990)
Island of Whales
as Narrator (voice)
(1989)
Old Gringo
as Ambrose Bierce
(1989)
(1989)
(1988)
The Making of Moonwalker
as Self
(1988)
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
as Self
(1987)
(1987)
Amazing Grace and Chuck
as President
(1986)
Directed by William Wyler
as Self
(1983)
The Scarlet and the Black
as Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty
(1982)
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
(1980)
The Sea Wolves
as Col. Lewis Pugh
(1978)
The Boys from Brazil
as Dr. Josef Mengele
(1978)
Mickey's 50
as Self
(1977)
MacArthur
as Douglas MacArthur
(1976)
The Omen
as Robert Thorn
(1974)
Billy Two Hats
as Arch Deans
(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
(1970)
I Walk the Line
as Sheriff Henry Tawes
(1969)
Mackenna's Gold
as Marshal MacKenna
(1969)
Marooned
as Charles Keith
(1969)
The Chairman
as John Hathaway
(1969)
The Extraordinary Seaman
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1969)
(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
(1966)
(1965)
Mirage
as David Stillwell
(1965)
Uncertain Verification
as (archive footage)
(1965)
Salute to Stan Laurel
as Self
(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
(1961)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self (uncredited)
(1959)
On the Beach
as Dwight Towers
(1959)
Pork Chop Hill
as Lt. Joe Clemons
(1959)
Beloved Infidel
as F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1958)
The Big Country
as James McKay
(1958)
The Bravados
as Jim Douglass
(1958)
Fun in the Big Country
as Self
(1958)
The Hidden World
as Narrator
(1957)
Designing Woman
as Mike Hagen
(1956)
Moby Dick
as Captain Ahab
(1956)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
as Tom Rath
(1956)
Stars of Cabaret
as Self (archive footage)
(1954)
The Million Pound Note
as Henry Adams
(1954)
The Purple Plain
as Bill Forrester
(1954)
Night People
as Col. Steve Van Dyke
(1954)
Boom on Paris
as Self
(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)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
as Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N
(1951)
David and Bathsheba
as King David
(1951)
Only the Valiant
as Capt. Richard Lance
(1951)
Pictura
as Narrator: Carpaccio episode (voice)
(1950)
The Gunfighter
as Jimmy Ringo
(1949)
Twelve O'Clock High
as Brigadier General Frank Savage
(1949)
The Great Sinner
as Fedja
(1949)
The Art Director
as Self - Philip Schuyler Green (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1948)
Yellow Sky
as James "Stretch" Dawson
(1947)
Gentleman's Agreement
as Philip Schuyler Green
(1947)
The Paradine Case
as Anthony Keane
(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
Crew
(1993)
The Portrait
Executive Producer
(1974)
The Dove
Producer
(1972)
(1963)
Captain Newman, M.D.
Producer
(1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Producer
(1959)
Pork Chop Hill
Executive Producer
(1958)
The Big Country
Producer
(1947)
The Macomber Affair
Co-Producer