1916-04-05 ( 109 years old ) in La Jolla, California, USA
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.
Movies
Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur
2022-11-28
To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View
2022-10-11
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
Fallout
2013-07-26
Close Up
2012-09-30
The Curse of 'The Omen'
2005-10-26
Legenden: Audrey Hepburn
2005-08-01
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002-11-26
Restoring Roman Holiday
2002-11-26
Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
2001-10-21
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001-09-18
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001-01-01
American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith
1999-11-26
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
1999-10-14
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999-01-23
Fearful Symmetry
1998-01-01
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
1996-11-25
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996-04-06
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
1995-12-14
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995-11-16
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
1995-08-24
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
1995-03-20
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
1995-01-01
The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann
1994-10-06
The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue
1993-11-26
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
1993-08-11
The Portrait
1993-02-13
Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words
1993-01-01
Cape Fear
1991-11-13
Other People's Money
1991-10-18
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991-03-10
Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990-09-10
Island of Whales
1990-01-01
Old Gringo
1989-09-13
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
1988-03-08
The Making of Moonwalker
1988-01-01
Amazing Grace and Chuck
1987-05-22
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987-05-18
Directed by William Wyler
1986-05-01
The Scarlet and the Black
1983-02-02
Night of 100 Stars
1982-03-08
The Sea Wolves
1980-07-03
Mickey's 50
1978-11-19
The Boys from Brazil
1978-10-05
MacArthur
1977-07-15
The Omen
1976-06-25
Billy Two Hats
1974-03-07
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
1973-01-01
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972-01-10
Shoot Out
1971-07-02
I Walk the Line
1970-11-18
Marooned
1969-12-11
The Chairman
1969-06-25
The Extraordinary Seaman
1969-05-14
Mackenna's Gold
1969-03-18
The Stalking Moon
1968-12-25
The Movie Orgy
1968-01-01
Africa
1967-09-10
Arabesque
1966-05-04
Salute to Stan Laurel
1965-11-23
Mirage
1965-10-29
Uncertain Verification
1965-04-30
Behold a Pale Horse
1964-08-14
Captain Newman, M.D.
1963-12-25
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962-12-20
How the West Was Won
1962-11-02
Cape Fear
1962-04-12
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961-12-31
The Guns of Navarone
1961-04-27
On the Beach
1959-12-16
Beloved Infidel
1959-11-17
Pork Chop Hill
1959-05-29
The Big Country
1958-09-30
The Bravados
1958-06-25
Fun in the Big Country
1958-01-01
The Hidden World
1958-01-01
Designing Woman
1957-05-16
Moby Dick
1956-06-27
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1956-04-12
Stars of Cabaret
1956-01-01
The Purple Plain
1954-09-14
Night People
1954-03-11
Boom on Paris
1954-02-19
The Million Pound Note
1954-01-07
Roman Holiday
1953-08-26
The World in His Arms
1952-10-09
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952-10-08
David and Bathsheba
1951-08-10
Pictura
1951-06-01
Only the Valiant
1951-04-13
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951-04-10
The Gunfighter
1950-06-23
Twelve O'Clock High
1949-12-21
The Art Director
1949-11-12
The Great Sinner
1949-06-29
Yellow Sky
1948-12-24
The Paradine Case
1947-12-31
Gentleman's Agreement
1947-11-11
The Macomber Affair
1947-04-20
Duel in the Sun
1946-12-31
The Yearling
1946-12-18
Spellbound
1945-11-08
The Valley of Decision
1945-05-03
The Keys of the Kingdom
1944-12-15
Days of Glory
1944-06-16
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