Gregory Peck
Acting
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.
Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur
Self (archive footage)
To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View
Archive Footage
Discovering Audrey Hepburn
Self (archive footage)
Fallout
Self (archive footage)
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
The Curse of 'The Omen'
Self (archive footage)
Legenden: Audrey Hepburn
Self (archive footage)
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
Self
Restoring Roman Holiday
Joe Bradley (archive footage)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Self (archive footage)
From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff
Self / Narrator (voice)
Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
Self
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
Self
American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith
Narrator
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
Self
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Intimate Portrait: Lauren Bacall
Self
Fearful Symmetry
Self
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
Self
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Self (archive footage)
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
Self - Presenter
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Self
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
John Ballantyne (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Self
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Self
The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann
Narrator
The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue
Mr. Ziegfeld (voice)
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Self
The Portrait
Gardner Church
Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words
Himself - Introduction
Cape Fear
Lee Heller
Other People's Money
Andrew Jorgenson
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Self (archive footage)
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Self (archive footage)
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Self
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
Self
Island of Whales
Narrator (voice)
Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren
Narrator
Old Gringo
Ambrose Bierce
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self (voice)
The Making of Moonwalker
Self
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
Self
Amazing Grace and Chuck
President
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Self
Directed by William Wyler
Self
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Self
The Scarlet and the Black
Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty
Night of 100 Stars
Self
The Sea Wolves
Col. Lewis Pugh
Mickey's 50
Self
The Boys from Brazil
Dr. Josef Mengele
MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Self
The Omen
Robert Thorn
Billy Two Hats
Arch Deans
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
Shoot Out
Clay Lomax
I Walk the Line
Sheriff Henry Tawes
The Infinite Journey
Narrator
Marooned
Charles Keith
The Chairman
John Hathaway
The Extraordinary Seaman
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mackenna's Gold
Marshal MacKenna
Look at Life: All in a Day's Work
Self
The Stalking Moon
Sam Varner
The Movie Orgy
Captain Ahab (archive footage)
Africa
Self - Narrator (voice)
Arabesque
Prof. David Pollock
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
Narrator
Salute to Stan Laurel
Self
Mirage
David Stillwell
Uncertain Verification
(archive footage)
Behold a Pale Horse
Manuel Artiguez
Captain Newman, M.D.
Capt. Josiah "Joe" Newman, MD
To Kill a Mockingbird
Atticus Finch
How the West Was Won
Cleve Van Valen
Lykke og krone
Cape Fear
Sam Bowden
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Self (uncredited)
The Guns of Navarone
Capt. Keith Mallory
On the Beach
Dwight Towers
Beloved Infidel
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pork Chop Hill
Lt. Joe Clemons
The All-Star Christmas Show
Self
The Big Country
James McKay
The Bravados
Jim Douglass
The Hidden World
Narrator
Fun in the Big Country
Self
Designing Woman
Mike Hagen
Moby Dick
Captain Ahab
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Tom Rath
Stars of Cabaret
Self (archive footage)
The Purple Plain
Bill Forrester
Night People
Col. Steve Van Dyke
Boom on Paris
lui-même
The Million Pound Note
Henry Adams
Roman Holiday
Joe Bradley
The World in His Arms
Captain Jonathan Clark
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Harry Street
David and Bathsheba
King David
Pictura
Narrator (segment "The Legend of St. Ursula") (voice)
Only the Valiant
Capt. Richard Lance
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N
The Gunfighter
Jimmy Ringo
Twelve O'Clock High
Brigadier General Frank Savage
The Art Director
Self - Philip Schuyler Green (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Great Sinner
Fedja
Yellow Sky
James "Stretch" Dawson
The Paradine Case
Anthony Keane
Gentleman's Agreement
Philip Schuyler Green
The Macomber Affair
Robert Wilson
Duel in the Sun
Lewton "Lewt" McCanles
The Yearling
Ezra "Penny" Baxter
Spellbound
John Ballantine
The Valley of Decision
Paul Scott
The Keys of the Kingdom
Fr. Francis Chisholm
Days of Glory
Vladimir