Gregory Peck
Acting • Born 1916-04-05 – Died 2003-06-12
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.
Filmography
140 credits
To Kill a Mockingbird
Movie • 1962
Atticus Finch
Cape Fear
Movie • 1991
Lee Heller
The Omen
Movie • 1976
Robert Thorn
Roman Holiday
Movie • 1953
Joe Bradley
Moby Dick
Movie • 1956
Captain Ahab
The Movie Orgy
Movie • 1968
Captain Ahab (archive footage)
Spellbound
Movie • 1945
John Ballantine
The Guns of Navarone
Movie • 1961
Capt. Keith Mallory
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Movie • 1996
Self (archive footage)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Movie • 1952
Harry Street
Yellow Sky
Movie • 1948
James "Stretch" Dawson
Cape Fear
Movie • 1962
Sam Bowden
Other People's Money
Movie • 1991
Andrew Jorgenson
MacArthur
Movie • 1977
Douglas MacArthur
Arabesque
Movie • 1966
Prof. David Pollock
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
Movie • 1951
Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N
Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage)
The Paradine Case
Movie • 1947
Anthony Keane
How the West Was Won
Movie • 1962
Cleve Van Valen
Billy Two Hats
Movie • 1974
Arch Deans
Duel in the Sun
Movie • 1946
Lewton "Lewt" McCanles
Gentleman's Agreement
Movie • 1947
Philip Schuyler Green
Designing Woman
Movie • 1957
Mike Hagen
The Big Country
Movie • 1958
James McKay
Captain Newman, M.D.
Movie • 1963
Capt. Josiah "Joe" Newman, MD
The Million Pound Note
Movie • 1954
Henry Adams
Marooned
Movie • 1969
Charles Keith
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Movie • 1956
Tom Rath
The Macomber Affair
Movie • 1947
Robert Wilson
On the Beach
Movie • 1959
Dwight Towers
David and Bathsheba
Movie • 1951
King David
The Stalking Moon
Movie • 1968
Sam Varner
Pork Chop Hill
Movie • 1959
Lt. Joe Clemons
Old Gringo
Movie • 1989
Ambrose Bierce
Twelve O'Clock High
Movie • 1949
Brigadier General Frank Savage
The Valley of Decision
Movie • 1945
Paul Scott
The Bravados
Movie • 1958
Jim Douglass
The Scarlet and the Black
Movie • 1983
Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty
The Boys from Brazil
Movie • 1978
Dr. Josef Mengele
Close Up
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
The Gunfighter
Movie • 1950
Jimmy Ringo
The Keys of the Kingdom
Movie • 1944
Fr. Francis Chisholm
Mackenna's Gold
Movie • 1969
Marshal MacKenna
The Yearling
Movie • 1946
Ezra "Penny" Baxter
Mirage
Movie • 1965
David Stillwell
The Sea Wolves
Movie • 1980
Col. Lewis Pugh
Legenden: Audrey Hepburn
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
I Walk the Line
Movie • 1970
Sheriff Henry Tawes
The Purple Plain
Movie • 1954
Bill Forrester
The World in His Arms
Movie • 1952
Captain Jonathan Clark
Only the Valiant
Movie • 1951
Capt. Richard Lance
Night People
Movie • 1954
Col. Steve Van Dyke
Days of Glory
Movie • 1944
Vladimir
Shoot Out
Movie • 1971
Clay Lomax
Fun in the Big Country
Movie • 1958
Self
The Chairman
Movie • 1969
John Hathaway
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie • 1972
Self (archive footage)
The Portrait
Movie • 1993
Gardner Church
Beloved Infidel
Movie • 1959
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
Movie • 2001
Self
Uncertain Verification
Movie • 1965
(archive footage)
The Great Sinner
Movie • 1949
Fedja
The Hidden World
Movie • 1958
Narrator
Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren
Movie • 1989
Narrator
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
Movie • 1999
Self
Fearful Symmetry
Movie • 1998
Self
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Movie • 1995
John Ballantyne (archive footage) (uncredited)
Behold a Pale Horse
Movie • 1964
Manuel Artiguez
From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff
Movie • 2002
Self / Narrator (voice)
Boom on Paris
Movie • 1954
lui-même
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Movie • 1961
Self (uncredited)
Pictura
Movie • 1951
Narrator (segment "The Legend of St. Ursula") (voice)
To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View
Movie • 2022
Archive Footage
Amazing Grace and Chuck
Movie • 1987
President
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Movie • 2002
(archive footage)
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Movie • 1990
Self
Restoring Roman Holiday
Movie • 2002
Joe Bradley (archive footage)
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
Movie • 2004
Self
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
Movie • 1995
Self - Presenter
Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words
Movie • 1993
Himself - Introduction
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Movie • 1995
Self
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Movie • 1995
Self
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Movie • 1991
Self (archive footage)
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Movie • 1993
Self
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Movie • 1990
Self (archive footage)
Africa
Movie • 1967
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
Movie • 2001
Self
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
Movie • 1966
Narrator
Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Fallout
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Movie • 1995
Self
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Movie • 1973
Self (archive footage)
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
Movie • 1990
Self
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Movie • 1999
Self (archive footage)
The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue
Movie • 1993
Mr. Ziegfeld (voice)
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Movie • 1987
Self
The Art Director
Movie • 1949
Self - Philip Schuyler Green (archive footage) (uncredited)
Salute to Stan Laurel
Movie • 1965
Self
The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann
Movie • 1994
Narrator
Stars of Cabaret
Movie • 1956
Self (archive footage)
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
Movie • 1996
Self
Directed by William Wyler
Movie • 1986
Self
The Curse of 'The Omen'
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
Movie • 1988
Self
Night of 100 Stars
Movie • 1982
Self
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Movie • 1989
Self (voice)
The Extraordinary Seaman
Movie • 1969
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith
Movie • 1999
Narrator
The Making of Moonwalker
Movie • 1989
Self
Mickey's 50
Movie • 1978
Self
Island of Whales
Movie • 1990
Narrator (voice)
Look at Life: All in a Day's Work
Movie • 1969
Self
Intimate Portrait: Lauren Bacall
Movie • 1999
Self
The All-Star Christmas Show
Movie • 1958
Self
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Movie • 1983
Self
Discovering Audrey Hepburn
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
The Infinite Journey
Movie • 1970
Narrator
Lykke og krone
Movie • 1962
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Movie • 1976
Self
The Dick Powell Show
TV • 1961
Self - Guest Host
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
The Blue and the Gray
TV • 1982
Abraham Lincoln
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV • 1978
Self
Talking Pictures
TV • 2013
Self (archive footage)
Moby Dick
TV • 1998
Father Mapple
The Pearl Bailey Show
TV • 1971
Self
V.I.P. Schaukel
TV • 1971
Self
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self (archive footage)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Reflets de Cannes
TV • 1954
Self
Baseball
TV • 1994
(voice)
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Dinah!
TV • 1974
Self
MGM Parade
TV • 1955
Self
Film '72
TV • 1971
Self