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.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
0Tony Awards
1956
Champs-Elysées
1982
Spécial cinéma
1974
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Dinah!
1974
Film '72
1971
Bambi
1948
The Oscars
1953
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
Filmography
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self · 1962
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self · 1961
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter · 1956
Champs-Elysées
as Self · 1982
Spécial cinéma
as Self · 1974
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self · 1975
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self · 1948
Dinah!
as Self · 1974
Film '72
as Self · 1971
Bambi
as Self (archive footage) · 1948
The Oscars
as Self · 1953
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self · 1978
MGM Parade
as Self · 1955
Roman Holiday
as Joe Bradley · 1953
Ciné regards
as Self · 1978
The Dick Powell Show
as Self - Guest Host · 1961
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self · 1971
Baseball
as (voice) · 1994
Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage) · 2013
The Omen
as Robert Thorn · 1976
Cape Fear
as Lee Heller · 1991
To Kill a Mockingbird
as Atticus Finch · 1962
Reflets de Cannes
as Self · 1954
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self · 1973
The Guns of Navarone
as Capt. Keith Mallory · 1961
Cape Fear
as Sam Bowden · 1962
How the West Was Won
as Cleve Van Valen · 1962
Spellbound
as John Ballantine · 1945
The Blue and the Gray
as Abraham Lincoln · 1982
Mackenna's Gold
as Marshal MacKenna · 1969
The Pearl Bailey Show
as Self · 1971
Moby Dick
as Captain Ahab · 1956
The Bravados
as Jim Douglass · 1958
The Big Country
as James McKay · 1958
The Boys from Brazil
as Dr. Josef Mengele · 1978
On the Beach
as Dwight Towers · 1959
Moby Dick
as Father Mapple · 1998
The Million Pound Note
as Henry Adams · 1954
Duel in the Sun
as Lewton "Lewt" McCanles · 1946
MacArthur
as Douglas MacArthur · 1977
The Valley of Decision
as Paul Scott · 1945
Other People's Money
as Andrew Jorgenson · 1991
Twelve O'Clock High
as Brigadier General Frank Savage · 1949
Olympic Gala
· 1984
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
as Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N · 1951
I Walk the Line
as Sheriff Henry Tawes · 1970
The Sea Wolves
as Col. Lewis Pugh · 1980
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
as Harry Street · 1952
The Paradine Case
as Anthony Keane · 1947
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
as Tom Rath · 1956
Night People
as Col. Steve Van Dyke · 1954
Captain Newman, M.D.
as Capt. Josiah "Joe" Newman, MD · 1963
The Stalking Moon
as Sam Varner · 1968
Yellow Sky
as James "Stretch" Dawson · 1948
The Keys of the Kingdom
as Fr. Francis Chisholm · 1944
Pork Chop Hill
as Lt. Joe Clemons · 1959
Only the Valiant
as Capt. Richard Lance · 1951
The Art Director
as Self - Philip Schuyler Green (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1949
The Gunfighter
as Jimmy Ringo · 1950
Gentleman's Agreement
as Philip Schuyler Green · 1947
The Yearling
as Ezra "Penny" Baxter · 1946
The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue
as Mr. Ziegfeld (voice) · 1993
Behold a Pale Horse
as Manuel Artiguez · 1964
The World in His Arms
as Captain Jonathan Clark · 1952
Shoot Out
as Clay Lomax · 1971
Arabesque
as Prof. David Pollock · 1966
The Scarlet and the Black
as Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty · 1983
David and Bathsheba
as King David · 1951
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice) · 1989
Billy Two Hats
as Arch Deans · 1974
Night of 100 Stars
as Self · 1982
Beloved Infidel
as F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1959
Designing Woman
as Mike Hagen · 1957
The Movie Orgy
as Captain Ahab (archive footage) · 1968
Marooned
as Charles Keith · 1969
The Fabulous Allan Carr
as Self (archive footage) · 2017
Mirage
as David Stillwell · 1965
The Purple Plain
as Bill Forrester · 1954
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage) · 1972
Days of Glory
as Vladimir · 1944
James Bond: The First 21 Years
as Self · 1983
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
as Self - Presenter · 1995
Amazing Grace and Chuck
as President · 1987
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
as Self (archive footage) · 2002
Directed by William Wyler
as Self · 1986
The Great Sinner
as Fedja · 1949
NBC: The First Fifty Years
as Self · 1976
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self · 1987
The Chairman
as John Hathaway · 1969
Close Up
as Self (archive footage) · 2012
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
as Self · 1993
Anthony Quinn: An Original
as Self (archive footage) · 1990
The Macomber Affair
as Robert Wilson · 1947
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
as Self · 1995
The Making of Moonwalker
as Self · 1989
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
as Self · 1995
Old Gringo
as Ambrose Bierce · 1989
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
as Self · 1990
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self (uncredited) · 1961
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
as Self · 1996
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
as Self (archive footage) · 1991
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
as Self · 1999
Salute to Stan Laurel
as Self · 1965
The All-Star Christmas Show
as Self · 1958
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
as Self · 1988
Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
as Self (archive footage) · 2001
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
as John Ballantyne (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1995
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
as Self · 2001
Lykke og krone
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1962
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
as Self · 2004
Pictura
as Narrator (segment "The Legend of St. Ursula") (voice) · 1951
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage) · 1996
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage) · 1999
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
as Self · 1995
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
as Self · 1990
From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff
as Self / Narrator (voice) · 2002
Boom on Paris
as lui-même · 1954
Mickey's 50
as Self · 1978
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
as Self · 2001
Intimate Portrait: Lauren Bacall
as Self · 1999
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
as Self (archive footage) · 1973
The Extraordinary Seaman
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1969
To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View
as Archive Footage · 2022
Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur
as Self (archive footage) · 2022
American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith
as Narrator · 1999
The Portrait
as Gardner Church · 1993
Fun in the Big Country
as Self · 1958
Look at Life: All in a Day's Work
as Self · 1969
Discovering: Robert Mitchum
as Self (archive footage) · 2014
The Curse of 'The Omen'
as Self (archive footage) · 2005
Stars of Cabaret
as Self (archive footage) · 1956
Legenden: Audrey Hepburn
as Self (archive footage) · 2005
Fearful Symmetry
as Self · 1998
Uncertain Verification
as (archive footage) · 1965
Fallout
as Self (archive footage) · 2013
Discovering Audrey Hepburn
as Self (archive footage) · 2015
Island of Whales
as Narrator (voice) · 1990
Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words
as Self - Introduction · 1993
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
as Narrator · 1966
Africa
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1967
The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann
as Narrator · 1994
Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren
as Narrator · 1989
The Hidden World
as Narrator · 1958
Restoring Roman Holiday
as Joe Bradley (archive footage) · 2002
The Infinite Journey
as Narrator · 1970