Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck

Birthday: 1916-04-05

Deathday: 2003-06-12

Place of birth: La Jolla, California, USA

Also known as: Eldred Gregory Peck, グレゴリー・ペック, エルドレッド・グレゴリー・ペック, Грегорі Пек, گریگوری پک

imdb_id: nm0000060

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.

Played in movies:

Close Up

Score: 9.5

Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration

Score: 8.8

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand

Score: 8.1

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

Score: 8.0

To Kill a Mockingbird

Score: 8.0

Roman Holiday

Score: 7.9

The Big Country

Score: 7.6

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

Score: 7.6

Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

Score: 7.5

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

Score: 7.5

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

Score: 7.5

Cape Fear

Score: 7.4

A Conversation with Gregory Peck

Score: 7.4

Spellbound

Score: 7.4

The Omen

Score: 7.4

Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren

Score: 7.3

The Making of 'Cape Fear'

Score: 7.3

The Gunfighter

Score: 7.3

The Valley of Decision

Score: 7.3

The Guns of Navarone

Score: 7.3

Cape Fear

Score: 7.3

Twelve O'Clock High

Score: 7.1

Moby Dick

Score: 7.1

Fallout

Score: 7.0

Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur

Score: 7.0

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

Score: 7.0

Restoring Roman Holiday

Score: 7.0

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

Score: 7.0

The Keys of the Kingdom

Score: 7.0

Gentleman's Agreement

Score: 7.0

The Scarlet and the Black

Score: 7.0

How the West Was Won

Score: 7.0

Mirage

Score: 7.0

Yellow Sky

Score: 6.9

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

Score: 6.9

The Million Pound Note

Score: 6.8

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Score: 6.8

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

Score: 6.7

The Boys from Brazil

Score: 6.7

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Score: 6.7

Night of 100 Stars

Score: 6.7

The Great Sinner

Score: 6.6

Uncertain Verification

Score: 6.6

Mackenna's Gold

Score: 6.6

On the Beach

Score: 6.6

The Yearling

Score: 6.6

The Bravados

Score: 6.6

Anthony Quinn: An Original

Score: 6.5

The World in His Arms

Score: 6.5

The Purple Plain

Score: 6.5

Pork Chop Hill

Score: 6.5

Captain Newman, M.D.

Score: 6.5

Designing Woman

Score: 6.5

The Movie Orgy

Score: 6.5

Shoot Out

Score: 6.4

Duel in the Sun

Score: 6.4

Only the Valiant

Score: 6.3

Arabesque

Score: 6.3

The Paradine Case

Score: 6.2

The Macomber Affair

Score: 6.2

MacArthur

Score: 6.2

Other People's Money

Score: 6.1

Beloved Infidel

Score: 6.0

The All-Star Christmas Show

Score: 6.0

The Curse of 'The Omen'

Score: 6.0

The Art Director

Score: 6.0

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

Score: 6.0

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

Score: 6.0

Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words

Score: 6.0

The Hidden World

Score: 6.0

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Score: 6.0

Legenden: Audrey Hepburn

Score: 6.0

The Stalking Moon

Score: 5.9

Night People

Score: 5.9

Behold a Pale Horse

Score: 5.9

The Sea Wolves

Score: 5.9

Marooned

Score: 5.9

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Score: 5.9

I Walk the Line

Score: 5.8

The Portrait

Score: 5.7

David and Bathsheba

Score: 5.7

Billy Two Hats

Score: 5.7

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Score: 5.7

Days of Glory

Score: 5.6

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

Score: 5.6

Old Gringo

Score: 5.6

Amazing Grace and Chuck

Score: 5.6

The Chairman

Score: 5.5

Boom on Paris

Score: 5.4

American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith

Score: 5.2

James Bond: The First 21 Years

Score: 5.0

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

Score: 5.0

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

Score: 5.0

Fearful Symmetry

Score: 4.3

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

Score: 3.5

The Extraordinary Seaman

Score: 2.6

Discovering Audrey Hepburn

Score: 0.0

Intimate Portrait: Lauren Bacall

Score: 0.0

Look at Life: All in a Day's Work

Score: 0.0

Island of Whales

Score: 0.0

Mickey's 50

Score: 0.0

The Making of Moonwalker

Score: 0.0

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Score: 0.0

Directed by William Wyler

Score: 0.0

Stars of Cabaret

Score: 0.0

The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann

Score: 0.0

Salute to Stan Laurel

Score: 0.0

The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue

Score: 0.0

The Making of 'Cape Fear'

Score: 0.0

Africa

Score: 0.0

Sinatra: 80 Years My Way

Score: 0.0

Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret

Score: 0.0

To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View

Score: 0.0

Pictura

Score: 0.0

Fun in the Big Country

Score: 0.0

Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Bambi

Score: 9.0

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

The Kennedy Center Honors

Score: 7.4

Baseball

Score: 7.3

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

The Blue and the Gray

Score: 6.9

The Ed Sullivan Show

Score: 6.8

Dinah!

Score: 6.7

Champs-Elysées

Score: 6.3

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Score: 6.3

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Score: 6.0

V.I.P. Schaukel

Score: 6.0

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Moby Dick

Score: 5.9

The Dick Powell Show

Score: 5.5

The Mike Douglas Show

Score: 5.4

Talking Pictures

Score: 5.0

Reflets de Cannes

Score: 2.0

Spécial cinéma

Score: 0.0

The Pearl Bailey Show

Score: 0.0