Gregory Peck

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.

Cast

To Kill a Mockingbird

(Atticus Finch)

Cape Fear

(Lee Heller)

The Omen

(Robert Thorn)

Roman Holiday

(Joe Bradley)

Moby Dick

(Captain Ahab)

The Movie Orgy

(Captain Ahab (archive footage))

Spellbound

(John Ballantine)

The Guns of Navarone

(Capt. Keith Mallory)

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

(Self (archive footage))

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

(Harry Street)

Yellow Sky

(James "Stretch" Dawson)

Cape Fear

(Sam Bowden)

Other People's Money

(Andrew Jorgenson)

MacArthur

(Douglas MacArthur)

Arabesque

(Prof. David Pollock)

Captain Horatio Hornblower

(Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N)

Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'

(Self (archive footage))

The Paradine Case

(Anthony Keane)

How the West Was Won

(Cleve Van Valen)

Billy Two Hats

(Arch Deans)

Duel in the Sun

(Lewton "Lewt" McCanles)

Gentleman's Agreement

(Philip Schuyler Green)

Designing Woman

(Mike Hagen)

The Big Country

(James McKay)

Captain Newman, M.D.

(Capt. Josiah "Joe" Newman, MD)

The Million Pound Note

(Henry Adams)

Marooned

(Charles Keith)

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

(Tom Rath)

The Macomber Affair

(Robert Wilson)

On the Beach

(Dwight Towers)

David and Bathsheba

(King David)

The Stalking Moon

(Sam Varner)

Pork Chop Hill

(Lt. Joe Clemons)

Old Gringo

(Ambrose Bierce)

Twelve O'Clock High

(Brigadier General Frank Savage)

The Valley of Decision

(Paul Scott)

The Bravados

(Jim Douglass)

The Scarlet and the Black

(Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty)

The Boys from Brazil

(Dr. Josef Mengele)

Close Up

(Self (archive footage))

The Gunfighter

(Jimmy Ringo)

The Keys of the Kingdom

(Fr. Francis Chisholm)

Mackenna's Gold

(Marshal MacKenna)

The Yearling

(Ezra "Penny" Baxter)

Mirage

(David Stillwell)

The Sea Wolves

(Col. Lewis Pugh)

Legenden: Audrey Hepburn

(Self (archive footage))

I Walk the Line

(Sheriff Henry Tawes)

The Purple Plain

(Bill Forrester)

The World in His Arms

(Captain Jonathan Clark)

Only the Valiant

(Capt. Richard Lance)

Night People

(Col. Steve Van Dyke)

Days of Glory

(Vladimir)

Shoot Out

(Clay Lomax)

Fun in the Big Country

(Self)

The Chairman

(John Hathaway)

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

(Self (archive footage))

The Portrait

(Gardner Church)

Beloved Infidel

(F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The Making of 'Cape Fear'

(Self)

Uncertain Verification

((archive footage))

The Great Sinner

(Fedja)

The Hidden World

(Narrator)

Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren

(Narrator)

A Conversation with Gregory Peck

(Self)

Fearful Symmetry

(Self)

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

(John Ballantyne (archive footage) (uncredited))

Behold a Pale Horse

(Manuel Artiguez)

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

(Self / Narrator (voice))

Boom on Paris

(Self)

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

(Self (uncredited))

Pictura

(Narrator: Carpaccio episode (voice))

To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View

(Archive Footage)

Amazing Grace and Chuck

(President)

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

((archive footage))

Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret

(Self)

Restoring Roman Holiday

(Joe Bradley (archive footage))

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand

(Self)

Sinatra: 80 Years My Way

(Self - Presenter)

Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words

(Himself - Introduction)

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

(Self)

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

(Self)

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

(Self (archive footage))

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

(Self)

Anthony Quinn: An Original

(Self (archive footage))

Africa

(Self - Narrator (voice))

The Making of 'Cape Fear'

(Self)

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

(Narrator)

Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur

(Self (archive footage))

Fallout

(Self (archive footage))

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

(Self)

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

(Self (archive footage))

Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration

(Self)

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

(Self (archive footage))

The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue

(Mr. Ziegfeld (voice))

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

(Self)

The Art Director

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

Salute to Stan Laurel

(Self)

The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann

(Narrator)

Stars of Cabaret

(Self (archive footage))

Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

(Self)

And the Oscar Goes To...

(Self (archive footage))

Directed by William Wyler

(Self)

The Curse of 'The Omen'

(Self (archive footage))

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

(Self)

Night of 100 Stars

(Self)

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

(Self)

The Dick Powell Show

(Self - Guest Host)

The Ed Sullivan Show

(Self)

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

(Self)

The Blue and the Gray

(Abraham Lincoln)

The Oscars

(Self)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

(Self)

The Kennedy Center Honors

(Self)

Talking Pictures

(Self (archive footage))

Moby Dick

(Father Mapple)

The Pearl Bailey Show

(Self)

V.I.P. Schaukel

(Self)

Baseball

(Various (voice))

Spécial cinéma

(Self)

Bambi Awards

(Self (archive footage))

Tony Awards

(Self - Presenter)

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

(Self)

Champs-Elysées

(Self)

Star Life

(Self (archive footage))

Abendschau

(Self)

Reflets de Cannes

(Self)