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Gregory Peck
Born Eldred Gregory Peck in San Diego on April 5th 1916.
From starring in his first film in 1944 (Days Of Glory), Peck was a main player on the Hollywood scene. Eighteen years later, in 1962, he was to star in his most inspirational and outstanding role as Atticus Finch - a Depression-era lawyer and widowed father, in a film adaptation of the Harper Lee novel To Kill A Mockingbird.
Released during the height of the US civil rights movement in the South, this movie and his role were Peck's favorites. In 2003, Atticus Finch was named the top film hero of the past 100 years by the American Film Institute.
He served as the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1967, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute from 1967 to 1969, Chairman of the Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund in 1971, and National Chairman of the American Cancer Society in 1966. He was a member of the National Council on the Arts from 1964 to 1966.
Through his career as a distinguished Hollywood actor, Peck earned many awards. He was nominated for five Academy Awards, of which he won one, and gained mnay more Golden Globes. He was dedicated to his art, and was considered to be a man of quiet dignity, never touched by scandal.
On June 12, 2003, Peck died in his sleep from cardiorespiratory arrest and bronchial pneumonia, at the age of 87, at Torrance Memorial Medical Center in Torrance, California. His wife of 48 years was at his side. Peck is buried in a mausoleum in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, California.
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Cape Fear
(2 discs)
on DVD (1991)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 film is a stylish, taut thriller. Public defender Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) served as the attorney for brutal rapist Max Cady (Robert De Niro) at his arraignment. Shocked by the violence of Cady's crime, Sam duplicitously withheld information ..read more »
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70%
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Old Gringo
on DVD (1989)
Starring: Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits
Director: Luis Puenzo
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A middle-aged spinster (Jane Fonda) decides to escape her cloistered New England life by taking a job as a governess in Mexico. There she falls in love with a passionate young general fighting in Pancho Villa's army, while at the same time finding herself drawn to a mysterious, aging American man. ..read more »
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53%
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The Scarlet And The Black
on DVD (1983)
Starring: Christopher Plummer, Gregory Peck, John Gielgud
Director: Jerry London
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The Scarlet And The Black is an entertaining and inspirational true story of courage and ingenuity. During the German occupation of Rome in 1943, an athletic Irish priest, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Gregory Peck), devotes all the time he can spare from his work at the Vatican to hide Allied POWs ..read more »
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73%
from 125 members
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The Sea Wolves
(1980)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
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They were the unlikeliest heroes of World War II - the gray-haired veterans of the Calcutta Light Horse, who hadn't seen action since the Boer War, but were fated to become The Sea Wolves. Retelling of true wartime exploits hidden until the 1978 British Official Secrets Act lifted security ..read more »
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68%
from 18 members
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MacArthur
on DVD (1978)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ed Flanders
Director: Joseph Sargent
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A biographical sketch of one of America's most famous generals. While delivering the farewell address to the students of West Point in 1962, General Douglas MacArthur (Gregory Peck) reflects on the events of his life: his achievements as the head of the American forces in the Pacific during World ..read more »
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56%
from 117 members
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The Boys From Brazil
on DVD (1978)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
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Ira Levin's best-selling novel is the basis for this incredible film about the perpetuation of a new race of Hitlers. When one of his proteges locates the elusive Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele (Peck), famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (a wonderful Olivier) stumbles on Mengele's grand scheme to ..read more »
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67%
from 392 members
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The Omen
on DVD (1976)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner
Director: Richard Donner
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A staid American ambassador (Gregory Peck) and his wife (Lee Remick) are heartbroken when their child is stillborn, but their heartbreak is only beginning when they adopt an orphan. As the boy grows, disaster surrounds him, beginning with the suicide of his nanny, and as the bodies pile up, his ..read more »
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72%
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Marooned
on DVD (1969)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen
Director: John Sturges
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Gregory Peck stars as Charles Keith, the ground-based supervisor of a crew of astronauts led by mission commander Jim Pruett (Richard Crenna) conducting a series of endurance tests while in space. When Keith orders the ship to reenter earth's atmosphere, their craft experiences a mechanical problem,..read more »
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49%
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MacKenna's Gold
on DVD (1968)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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A U.S. Sheriff, entrusted with a map of the legendary Valley of Gold, is attacked by an unruly bandit gang and his own local townspeople. They are all fired by greed and gold lust, but bound together by a fear of their common enemy - the Apache. Based on a novel by Will Henry, with music by Quincy ..read more »
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62%
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Captain Newman, MD
(1963)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson
Director: David Miller
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Dr. Josiah Newman (Gregory Peck) runs the psychiatric unit of a U.S. Military Hospital during WWII. Short of help, Newman coerces newly arrived neurotic orderly Jackson Leibowitz (Tony Curtis) to work in his ward. Leibowitz's scheming & humor quickly turns life inside the ward upside down. Newman, ..read more »
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26%
from 3 members
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To Kill A Mockingbird
(2 discs)
on DVD (1962)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford
Director: Robert Mulligan
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Robert Mulligan's classic adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in the racially charged atmosphere of Macon County, Alabama in the 1930s, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is a poignant coming-of-age story. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Screenplay (written by Horton Foote),..read more »
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79%
from 2,179 members
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The Guns Of Navarone
on DVD (1961)
Starring: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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One of the great war movies of all time, with an all start cast, and a gripping plot--based on the Alistair MacLean novel. A commando team is sent to a Greek Island to destroy the giant guns of World War II Germany which are controlling a strategic channel in the Aegean Sea. This was a ..read more »
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73%
from 1,261 members
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On The Beach
on DVD (1959)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire
Director: Stanley Kramer
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After the entire Northern Hemisphere is destroyed by a nuclear war, a group of survivors in Australia prepare for their own inevitable demise. As a deadly cloud of radiation creeps toward the continent, some survivors cling to hopes that life as they know it has continued somewhere, hopes that are ..read more »
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66%
from 173 members
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Pork Chop Hill
on DVD (1959)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, George Peppard
Director: Lewis Milestone
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Based on S.L.A. Marsall's account of his Korean War experience, the film stars Gregory Peck as Lt. Joe Clemons, the officer charged with taking the strategically meaningless Pork Chop Hill from the Chinese, while diplomats dither about the terms of peace in Panmunjon. Some of the men under his ..read more »
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65%
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The Bravados
on DVD (1958)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd
Director: Henry King
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When four men who Jim Douglas (Gregory Peck) believes raped and killed his wife escape from their death sentences, Jim sets out to track the men down and enact his own vengeance. An honest man, Jim sees his actions as just and brave, but as he criss-crosses Mexico to exact an eye for an eye, he ..read more »
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59%
from 123 members
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The Big Country
on DVD (1958)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Carroll Baker, Gregory Peck
Director: William Wyler
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Wyler's powerful Western covers a lot of territory with Gregory Peck a fish out of water as a sea captain who travels west to marry and settle, but finds himself in the middle of a bitter dispute over water rights and a jealous clash with the ranch foreman (Charlton Heston). He also discovers his ..read more »
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74%
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The Million Pound Note
on DVD (1953)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell
Director: Ronald Neame
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Gregory Peck plays a penniless American sailor lucky enough to be passing the house of two rich British men. They offer the sailor a loan in the form of a single banknote in the amount of one MILLION POUNDS. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to spend it, no one is able to make change, ..read more »
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61%
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Roman Holiday
on DVD (1953)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert
Director: William Wyler
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A modern-day princess "escapes" from her royal entourage while on a trip to Rome, and while incognito, falls in love with an American newspaperman. Oscar-winning story from then-blacklisted Dalton Trumbo was credited to Ian McLellan Hunter. Academy Award Nominations: 10, including Best Picture, ..read more »
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73%
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The Snows Of Kilimanjaro
on DVD (1952)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner
Director: Henry King
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Based on the Ernest Hemingway novel of the same name, Peck plays the part of a wounded hunter who is accompanied by two women in the African wilds. Each of them tries to analyse his or her past life.
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48%
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Spellbound without the spelling ... 31 May 2004
...Worth watching just to hear Gregory Peck announce with all the conviction he can muster: 'If there's one thing I hate - it's a SMUG WOMAN'.
The music is a bit exaggerate...
Excellent war classic 6 August 2004
