Gregory Peck Film Star

Gregory Peck, the American film and stage actor, was born on April 5, 1916 and left this earth on June 12, 2003. One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars, from the 1940s to the 1960s, he played important roles well into the 1990s. One of his most acclaimed performances was as Atticus Finch in the 1962 film version of To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won the Academy Award. Peck was honored by President Lyndon Johnson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gregory Peck among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at number 12.

He graduated from University of California, Berkley with a BA in English and had by then fallen in love with acting.

He married twice and fathered 5 children; Jonathan, Stephen, Carey, Anthony, and Cecilia.

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• Days of Glory (1944)
  
• The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
  
• The Valley of Decision (1945)
  
• Spellbound (1945)
  
• The Yearling (1946)
  
• Duel in the Sun (1946)
  
• The Macomber Affair (1947)
  
• Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
  
• The Paradine Case (1947)
  
• Yellow Sky (1949)
  
• The Great Sinner (1949)
  
• Twelve O'Clock High (1949)

• The Gunfighter (1950)
  
• Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
  
• Only the Valiant (1951)
  
• Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards (1951) (short subject)
  
• David and Bathsheba (1951)
  
• Pictura: An Adventure in Art (1951) (documentary) (narrator)
  
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
  
• The World in His Arms (1952)
  
• The Million Pound Note (1953)
  
• Roman Holiday (1953)
  
• Night People (1954)
  
• The Purple Plain (1954)
  
• The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
  
• Moby Dick (1956)
  
• Designing Woman (1957)
  
• The Hidden World (documentary) (narrator)
  
• The Bravados (1958)
  
• The Big Country (1958) (also producer)
  
• Pork Chop Hill (1959)
  
• Beloved Infidel (1959)
  
• On the Beach (1959)

Twelve O'Clock High, 1949

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• The Guns of Navarone (1961)
  
• Cape Fear (1962)
  
• Lykke og krone (1962) (documentary)
  
• How the West Was Won (1962)
  
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  
• Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
  
• Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
  
• Mirage (1965)
  
• John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums (1966) (documentary) (narrator)
  
• Arabesque (1966)
  
• Pähkähullu Suomi (1967) (Cameo)
  
• The Stalking Moon (1969)
  
• Mackenna's Gold (1969)
  
• The Chairman (1969)
  
• Marooned (1969)

Although I love to watch just about any film that Gregory Peck starred in, one of my all time favorites is To Kill a Mockingbird (Universal Legacy Series). As a young girl, I not only read the book by Harper Lee but saw the movie, too.

As the years have passed since the original release of this classic film, I have watched it many times. It never loses it's effect on my soul.

• I Walk the Line (1970)
  
• Shoot Out (1971)
  
• Billy Two Hats (1974)
  
• The Dove (1974) (producer)
  
• The Omen (1976)
  
• MacArthur (1977)
  
• The Boys from Brazil (1978)
  
• The Sea Wolves: The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse (1980)
  
• The Blue and the Gray (1982) (Abraham Lincoln)
  
• The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
  
• Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret (1985) (documentary)
  
• Directed by William Wyler (1986) (documentary)
  
• Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
  
• Old Gringo (1989)
  
• Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (1989) (documentary) (narrator)
  
• Other People's Money (1991)
  
• Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days (1991) (documentary) (narrator)
  
• Cape Fear (1991)
  
• The Portrait (1993)
  
• L'Hidato Shel Adolf Eichmann (1994) (documentary) (narrator)
  
• Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996) (documentary)
  
• The Art of Norton Simon (1999) (short subject) (narrator)
  
• A Conversation With Gregory Peck (2000) (documentary)

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Gregory Peck was nominated for five Academy Awards during his career. He was nominated in 1946 for The Keys of the Kingdom, in 1947 for The Yearling, in 1948 for Gentleman's Agreement, and in 1950 for Twelve O'Clock High. He won the Oscar for best actor in 1963 for To Kill a Mockingbird, and he received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for 1967.

Peck also received many Golden Globe awards. He won in 1947 for The Yearling, in 1963 for To Kill a Mockingbird, and in 1999 for the TV mini series Moby Dick. He was nominated in 1978 for The Boys from Brazil. He received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1969, and was given the Henrietta Award in 1951 and 1955 for World Film Favorite - Male.

In 1969, Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

In 1971, the Screen Actors Guild presented Peck with the SAG Life Achievement Award.

In 1989, the American Film Institute gave Peck the AFI Life Achievement Award.

He received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema in 1996.

In 1986 Peck was honored alongside actress Gene Tierney with the first Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival Spain for their body of work.

In 2000, Peck was made a Doctor of Letters by the National University of Ireland. He was a founding patron of the University College Dublin School of Film, where he persuaded Martin Scorsese to become an honorary patron. Peck also became chair of the American Cancer Society for a short time.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Gregory Peck has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6100 Hollywood Blvd. In November 2005, the star was stolen. It has since been replaced.

Gregory Peck Film Star Copyright: April 21, 2009 by BevsPaper (Beverly Owens)