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Gregory Peck
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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 (194…
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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.
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Gregory Peck's Filmography
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Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur
as Self (archive footage)
To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View
as Archive Footage
The Fabulous Allan Carr
as Self (archive footage)
Discovering Audrey Hepburn
as Self (archive footage)
Discovering: Robert Mitchum
as Self (archive footage)
Fallout
as Self (archive footage)
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
The Curse of 'The Omen'
as Self (archive footage)
Legenden: Audrey Hepburn
as Self (archive footage)
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
as Self
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
as Self (archive footage)
Restoring Roman Holiday
as Joe Bradley (archive footage)
From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff
as Self / Narrator (voice)
Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
as Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
as Self
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
as Self
American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith
as Narrator
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
as Self
No Poster
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Intimate Portrait: Lauren Bacall
as Self
Fearful Symmetry
as Self
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
as Self
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
as Self - Presenter
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
as Self
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
as John Ballantyne (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
as Self
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
as Self
The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann
as Narrator
The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue
as Mr. Ziegfeld (voice)
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
as Self
The Portrait
as Gardner Church
Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words
as Self - Introduction
Cape Fear
as Lee Heller
Other People's Money
as Andrew Jorgenson
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
as Self (archive footage)
Anthony Quinn: An Original
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
as Self
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
as Self
Island of Whales
as Narrator (voice)
No Poster
Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren
as Narrator
Old Gringo
as Ambrose Bierce
No Poster
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
The Making of Moonwalker
as Self
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
as Self
Amazing Grace and Chuck
as President
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self
Directed by William Wyler
as Self
No Poster
Olympic Gala
James Bond: The First 21 Years
as Self
The Scarlet and the Black
as Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
The Sea Wolves
as Col. Lewis Pugh
Mickey's 50
as Self
The Boys from Brazil
as Dr. Josef Mengele
MacArthur
as Douglas MacArthur
NBC: The First Fifty Years
as Self
The Omen
as Robert Thorn
Billy Two Hats
as Arch Deans
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
Shoot Out
as Clay Lomax
I Walk the Line
as Sheriff Henry Tawes
The Infinite Journey
as Narrator
Marooned
as Charles Keith
The Chairman
as John Hathaway
The Extraordinary Seaman
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mackenna's Gold
as Marshal MacKenna
Look at Life: All in a Day's Work
as Self
The Stalking Moon
as Sam Varner
The Movie Orgy
as Captain Ahab (archive footage)
No Poster
Africa
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Arabesque
as Prof. David Pollock
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
as Narrator
No Poster
Salute to Stan Laurel
as Self
Mirage
as David Stillwell
Uncertain Verification
as (archive footage)
Behold a Pale Horse
as Manuel Artiguez
Captain Newman, M.D.
as Capt. Josiah "Joe" Newman, MD
To Kill a Mockingbird
as Atticus Finch
How the West Was Won
as Cleve Van Valen
Lykke og krone
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cape Fear
as Sam Bowden
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self (uncredited)
The Guns of Navarone
as Capt. Keith Mallory
On the Beach
as Dwight Towers
Beloved Infidel
as F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pork Chop Hill
as Lt. Joe Clemons
The All-Star Christmas Show
as Self
The Big Country
as James McKay
The Bravados
as Jim Douglass
Fun in the Big Country
as Self
The Hidden World
as Narrator
Designing Woman
as Mike Hagen
Moby Dick
as Captain Ahab
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
as Tom Rath
Stars of Cabaret
as Self (archive footage)
The Purple Plain
as Bill Forrester
Night People
as Col. Steve Van Dyke
Boom on Paris
as lui-même
The Million Pound Note
as Henry Adams
Roman Holiday
as Joe Bradley
The World in His Arms
as Captain Jonathan Clark
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
as Harry Street
David and Bathsheba
as King David
Pictura
as Narrator (segment "The Legend of St. Ursula") (voice)
Only the Valiant
as Capt. Richard Lance
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
as Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N
The Gunfighter
as Jimmy Ringo
Twelve O'Clock High
as Brigadier General Frank Savage
The Art Director
as Self - Philip Schuyler Green (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Great Sinner
as Fedja
Yellow Sky
as James "Stretch" Dawson
The Paradine Case
as Anthony Keane
Gentleman's Agreement
as Philip Schuyler Green
The Macomber Affair
as Robert Wilson
Duel in the Sun
as Lewton "Lewt" McCanles
The Yearling
as Ezra "Penny" Baxter
Spellbound
as John Ballantine
The Valley of Decision
as Paul Scott
The Keys of the Kingdom
as Fr. Francis Chisholm
Days of Glory
as Vladimir