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Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck

Actor · Born 1916-04-05 · La Jolla, California, USA

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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), whic…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Cape Fear (1991) — Lee Heller
  2. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) — Atticus Finch
  3. The Omen (1976) — Robert Thorn
  4. Roman Holiday (1953) — Joe Bradley
  5. Spellbound (1945) — John Ballantine
  6. The Guns of Navarone (1961) — Capt. Keith Mallory
  7. Cape Fear (1962) — Sam Bowden
  8. How the West Was Won (1962) — Cleve Van Valen
  9. Moby Dick (1956) — Captain Ahab
  10. The Boys from Brazil (1978) — Dr. Josef Mengele
  11. The Big Country (1958) — James McKay
  12. Gentleman's Agreement (1947) — Philip Schuyler Green
  13. The Paradine Case (1947) — Anthony Keane
  14. On the Beach (1959) — Dwight Towers
  15. Mackenna's Gold (1969) — Marshal MacKenna
  16. The Gunfighter (1950) — Jimmy Ringo
  17. Duel in the Sun (1946) — Lewton "Lewt" McCanles
  18. Arabesque (1966) — Prof. David Pollock
  19. Twelve O'Clock High (1949) — Brigadier General Frank Savage
  20. Other People's Money (1991) — Andrew Jorgenson
  21. The Bravados (1958) — Jim Douglass
  22. Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) — Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N
  23. Yellow Sky (1948) — James "Stretch" Dawson
  24. Mirage (1965) — David Stillwell
  25. Marooned (1969) — Charles Keith
  26. The Sea Wolves (1980) — Col. Lewis Pugh
  27. The Yearling (1946) — Ezra "Penny" Baxter
  28. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) — Harry Street
  29. Shoot Out (1971) — Clay Lomax
  30. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) — Self
  31. MacArthur (1977) — Douglas MacArthur
  32. Designing Woman (1957) — Mike Hagen
  33. The Oscars (1953) — Self
  34. The Million Pound Note (1954) — Henry Adams
  35. The Stalking Moon (1968) — Sam Varner
  36. Pork Chop Hill (1959) — Lt. Joe Clemons
  37. David and Bathsheba (1951) — King David
  38. The Purple Plain (1954) — Bill Forrester
  39. The Scarlet and the Black (1983) — Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty
  40. Moby Dick (1998) — Father Mapple