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 Hitchcocks 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. Gentlemans Agreement (1947) centered on topics of antisemitism, while Pecks character in Twelve OClock 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 OFlaherty, 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.
Atticus Finch
Film 1962
Joe Bradley
Film 1953
Captain Ahab (archive footage)
Film 1968
John Ballantine
Film 1945
Self (archive footage)
Film 1996
Harry Street
Film 1952
Prof. David Pollock
Film 1966
Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N
Film 1951
Self (archive footage)
Film 2001
Anthony Keane
Film 1947
Arch Deans
Film 1974
Lewton "Lewt" McCanles
Film 1946
Philip Schuyler Green
Film 1947
James McKay
Film 1958
Capt. Josiah "Joe" Newman, MD
Film 1963
Henry Adams
Film 1954
Tom Rath
Film 1956
Robert Wilson
Film 1947
Dwight Towers
Film 1959
King David
Film 1951
Lt. Joe Clemons
Film 1959
Jim Douglass
Film 1958
Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty
Film 1983
Self (archive footage)
Film 2012
Jimmy Ringo
Film 1950
Marshal MacKenna
Film 1969
Ezra "Penny" Baxter
Film 1946
Self (archive footage)
Film 2005
Sheriff Henry Tawes
Film 1970
Bill Forrester
Film 1954
Col. Steve Van Dyke
Film 1954
Vladimir
Film 1944
Clay Lomax
Film 1971
Self
Film 1958
Self (archive footage)
Film 1972
Gardner Church
Film 1993
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Film 1959
Self
Film 2001
(archive footage)
Film 1965
Narrator
Film 1958
Narrator
Film 1989
Self
Film 1999
Self
Film 1998
John Ballantyne (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1995
Manuel Artiguez
Film 1964
Self / Narrator (voice)
Film 2002
Self
Film 1954
Self (uncredited)
Film 1961
Narrator: Carpaccio episode (voice)
Film 1951
Archive Footage
Film 2022
(archive footage)
Film 2002
Self
Film 1990
Joe Bradley (archive footage)
Film 2002
Self
Film 2004
Self - Presenter
Film 1995
Himself - Introduction
Film 1993
Self
Film 1995
Self
Film 1995
Self (archive footage)
Film 1991
Self
Film 1993
Self (archive footage)
Film 1990
Self - Narrator (voice)
Film 1967
Self
Film 2001
Narrator
Film 1966
Self (archive footage)
Film 2022
Self (archive footage)
Film 2013
Self
Film 1995
Self (archive footage)
Film 1973
Self
Film 1990
Self (archive footage)
Film 1999
Mr. Ziegfeld (voice)
Film 1993
Self
Film 1987
Self - Philip Schuyler Green (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1949
Self
Film 1965
Narrator
Film 1994
Self (archive footage)
Film 1956
Self
Film 1996
Self (archive footage)
Film 2014
Self
Film 1986
Self (archive footage)
Film 2005
Self
Film 1988
Self
Film 1982
Self - Guest Host
Tv 1961
Self
Tv 1948
Self
Tv 1973
Self
Tv 1953
Self
Tv 1962
Self
Tv 1978
Self (archive footage)
Tv 2013
Father Mapple
Tv 1998
Self
Tv 1971
Self
Tv 1971
Various (voice)
Tv 1994
Self
Tv 1974
Self (archive footage)
Tv 1948
Self - Presenter
Tv 1956
Self
Tv 1975
Self
Tv 1982
Self (archive footage)
Tv 1990
Self
Tv 2000
Self
Tv 1954