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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 5, 1916
Died
June 12, 2003
Place of Birth
La Jolla, California, USA
Also Known As
- Eldred Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck
2.4 Popularity
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
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur
2022
0.0
Archive Footage
To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View
2022
8.0
Self (archive footage)
Discovering Audrey Hepburn
2015
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Fallout
2013
5.8
Self (archive footage)
Talking Pictures
2013
9.5
Self (archive footage)
Close Up
2012
6.0
Self (archive footage)
The Curse of 'The Omen'
2005
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Legenden: Audrey Hepburn
2005
8.1
Self
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
2004
7.5
(archive footage)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
Credits
Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur
as Self (archive footage)
2022
7.0
To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View
as Archive Footage
2022
0.0
Discovering Audrey Hepburn
as Self (archive footage)
2015
8.0
Fallout
as Self (archive footage)
2013
7.0
Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
2013
5.8
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
2012
9.5
The Curse of 'The Omen'
as Self (archive footage)
2005
6.0
Legenden: Audrey Hepburn
as Self (archive footage)
2005
6.0
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
as Self
2004
8.1
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
as (archive footage)
2002
7.5
Restoring Roman Holiday
as Joe Bradley (archive footage)
2002
7.0
From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff
as Self / Narrator (voice)
2002
7.0
Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
as Self (archive footage)
2001
0.0
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
as Self
2001
7.3
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
as Self
2001
0.0
American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith
as Narrator
1999
5.2
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
as Self
1999
7.4
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Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
1999
7.6
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Intimate Portrait: Lauren Bacall
as Self
1999
0.0
Moby Dick
as Father Mapple
1998
5.9
Fearful Symmetry
as Self
1998
4.3
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
as Self
1996
7.5
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
1996
6.7
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
as Self - Presenter
1995
0.0
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
as Self
1995
6.0
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
as John Ballantyne (archive footage) (uncredited)
1995
5.6
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
as Self
1995
5.0
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
as Self
1995
8.0
The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann
as Narrator
1994
0.0
Baseball
as (voice)
1994
7.4
The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue
as Mr. Ziegfeld (voice)
1993
0.0
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
as Self
1993
7.3
The Portrait
as Gardner Church
1993
5.7
Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words
as Himself - Introduction
1993
6.0
Cape Fear
as Lee Heller
1991
7.3
Other People's Money
as Andrew Jorgenson
1991
6.1
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
as Self (archive footage)
1991
7.5
Anthony Quinn: An Original
as Self (archive footage)
1990
6.7
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Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
as Self
1990
0.0
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Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
as Self
1990
8.8
Island of Whales
as Narrator (voice)
1990
0.0
🎬
Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren
as Narrator
1989
7.3
Old Gringo
as Ambrose Bierce
1989
5.5
🎬
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
1989
0.0
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
as Self
1988
6.7
🎬
The Making of Moonwalker
as Self
1988
0.0
Amazing Grace and Chuck
as President
1987
5.6
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self
1987
5.7
Directed by William Wyler
as Self
1986
0.0
James Bond: The First 21 Years
as Self
1983
5.0
The Scarlet and the Black
as Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty
1983
7.0
The Blue and the Gray
as Abraham Lincoln
1982
6.6
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
6.7
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
The Sea Wolves
as Col. Lewis Pugh
1980
5.8
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
1978
7.4
Mickey's 50
as Self
1978
0.0
The Boys from Brazil
as Dr. Josef Mengele
1978
6.7
MacArthur
as Douglas MacArthur
1977
6.3
The Omen
as Robert Thorn
1976
7.4
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1974
0.0
Billy Two Hats
as Arch Deans
1974
5.6
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
as Self (archive footage)
1973
6.0
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
1972
6.0
Shoot Out
as Clay Lomax
1971
6.4
🎬
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
1971
7.5
🎬
The Pearl Bailey Show
as Self
1971
0.0
I Walk the Line
as Sheriff Henry Tawes
1970
5.7
The Infinite Journey
as Narrator
1970
0.0
Marooned
as Charles Keith
1969
5.9
The Chairman
as John Hathaway
1969
5.3
The Extraordinary Seaman
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1969
2.6
Mackenna's Gold
as Marshal MacKenna
1969
6.6
Look at Life: All in a Day's Work
as Self
1969
0.0
The Stalking Moon
as Sam Varner
1968
5.9
The Movie Orgy
as Captain Ahab (archive footage)
1968
6.3
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Africa
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1967
0.0
Arabesque
as Prof. David Pollock
1966
6.3
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
as Narrator
1966
5.0
🎬
Salute to Stan Laurel
as Self
1965
0.0
Mirage
as David Stillwell
1965
7.0
Uncertain Verification
as (archive footage)
1965
6.6
Behold a Pale Horse
as Manuel Artiguez
1964
5.9
Captain Newman, M.D.
as Capt. Josiah "Joe" Newman, MD
1963
6.6
To Kill a Mockingbird
as Atticus Finch
1962
8.0
How the West Was Won
as Cleve Van Valen
1962
7.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
Cape Fear
as Sam Bowden
1962
7.4
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self (uncredited)
1961
3.5
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Dick Powell Show
as Self - Guest Host
1961
5.5
The Guns of Navarone
as Capt. Keith Mallory
1961
7.3
On the Beach
as Dwight Towers
1959
6.6
Beloved Infidel
as F. Scott Fitzgerald
1959
5.9
Pork Chop Hill
as Lt. Joe Clemons
1959
6.6
The All-Star Christmas Show
as Self
1958
6.0
The Big Country
as James McKay
1958
7.6
The Bravados
as Jim Douglass
1958
6.6
Fun in the Big Country
as Self
1958
0.0
The Hidden World
as Narrator
1958
6.0
Designing Woman
as Mike Hagen
1957
6.5
Moby Dick
as Captain Ahab
1956
7.1
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
as Tom Rath
1956
6.7
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
Stars of Cabaret
as Self (archive footage)
1956
0.0
The Purple Plain
as Bill Forrester
1954
6.5
Reflets de Cannes
as Self
1954
2.0
Night People
as Col. Steve Van Dyke
1954
6.1
Boom on Paris
as Self
1954
5.4
The Million Pound Note
as Henry Adams
1954
6.8
Roman Holiday
as Joe Bradley
1953
7.9
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
The World in His Arms
as Captain Jonathan Clark
1952
6.5
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
as Harry Street
1952
5.9
David and Bathsheba
as King David
1951
5.7
Pictura
as Narrator: Carpaccio episode (voice)
1951
0.0
Only the Valiant
as Capt. Richard Lance
1951
6.4
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
as Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N
1951
6.9
The Gunfighter
as Jimmy Ringo
1950
7.3
Twelve O'Clock High
as Brigadier General Frank Savage
1949
7.1
The Art Director
as Self - Philip Schuyler Green (archive footage) (uncredited)
1949
6.0
The Great Sinner
as Fedja
1949
6.6
Yellow Sky
as James "Stretch" Dawson
1948
6.9
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Bambi
as Self (archive footage)
1948
9.0
The Paradine Case
as Anthony Keane
1947
6.2
Gentleman's Agreement
as Philip Schuyler Green
1947
7.0
The Macomber Affair
as Robert Wilson
1947
6.2
Duel in the Sun
as Lewton "Lewt" McCanles
1946
6.3
The Yearling
as Ezra "Penny" Baxter
1946
6.6
Spellbound
as John Ballantine
1945
7.4
The Valley of Decision
as Paul Scott
1945
7.3
The Keys of the Kingdom
as Fr. Francis Chisholm
1944
7.0
Days of Glory
as Vladimir
1944
5.8