Gregory Peck
Acting
Born: Apr 05, 1916 — Died: Jun 12, 2003
From: La Jolla, California, USA
Credits: 30 titles
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 …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement' | Self (archive footage) | 2001 | — |
| Ingrid Bergman Remembered | Self (archive footage) | 1996 | 6.7 |
| Cape Fear | Lee Heller | 1991 | 7.259 |
| Other People's Money | Andrew Jorgenson | 1991 | 6.129 |
| MacArthur | Douglas MacArthur | 1977 | 6.295 |
| The Omen | Robert Thorn | 1976 | 7.411 |
| Billy Two Hats | Arch Deans | 1974 | 5.804 |
| Marooned | Charles Keith | 1969 | 5.931 |
| The Movie Orgy | Captain Ahab (archive footage) | 1968 | 6.647 |
| Arabesque | Prof. David Pollock | 1966 | 6.296 |
| Captain Newman, M.D. | Capt. Josiah "Joe" Newman, MD | 1963 | 6.697 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Atticus Finch | 1962 | 8.0 |
| Cape Fear | Sam Bowden | 1962 | 7.463 |
| How the West Was Won | Cleve Van Valen | 1962 | 6.993 |
| The Guns of Navarone | Capt. Keith Mallory | 1961 | 7.3 |
| On the Beach | Dwight Towers | 1959 | 6.682 |
| The Big Country | James McKay | 1958 | 7.582 |
| Designing Woman | Mike Hagen | 1957 | 6.644 |
| Moby Dick | Captain Ahab | 1956 | 7.057 |
| The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | Tom Rath | 1956 | 6.715 |
| The Million Pound Note | Henry Adams | 1954 | 6.868 |
| Roman Holiday | Joe Bradley | 1953 | 7.888 |
| The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Harry Street | 1952 | 5.934 |
| Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N | 1951 | 6.921 |
| Yellow Sky | James "Stretch" Dawson | 1948 | 6.965 |
| The Paradine Case | Anthony Keane | 1947 | 6.247 |
| Gentleman's Agreement | Philip Schuyler Green | 1947 | 6.989 |
| The Macomber Affair | Robert Wilson | 1947 | 6.727 |
| Duel in the Sun | Lewton "Lewt" McCanles | 1946 | 6.37 |
| Spellbound | John Ballantine | 1945 | 7.387 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1916 |
| From | La Jolla, California, … |