Gregory Peck

Acting · Born 1916-04-05 in La Jolla, California, USA

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…

Filmography

• To Kill a Mockingbird as Atticus Finch
• Cape Fear as Lee Heller
• The Omen as Robert Thorn
• Roman Holiday as Joe Bradley
• Moby Dick as Captain Ahab
• Spellbound as John Ballantine
• The Guns of Navarone as Capt. Keith Mallory
• Cape Fear as Sam Bowden
• How the West Was Won as Cleve Van Valen
• Gentleman's Agreement as Philip Schuyler Green

TV

• The Dick Powell Show as Self - Guest Host
• The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
• The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
• The Blue and the Gray as Abraham Lincoln
• The Oscars as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
• The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
• Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)
• Moby Dick as Father Mapple
• V.I.P. Schaukel as Self