EARLY DAYS PRODUCTIONS
Peck was born Eldred Gregory Peck on April 5, 1916 in San Diego, California's seaside community of La Jolla, the son of Missouri-born Bernice Mae "Bunny" Ayres and Gregory Pearl Peck. Peck's parents divorced by the time he was six years old and he spent the next few years being raised by his maternal grandmother. Peck was sent to a Roman Catholic military school, St. John's Military Academy, in Los Angeles at the age of 10. At 14, Peck attended San Diego High School and lived with his father. When he graduated, he enrolled briefly at San Diego State Teacher's College.
1916 - 2003
Stats:
Bith Name:
Eldred Gregory Peck
Height: 6' 3"
Eye Color: brown
Hair Color: black
Nickname: "Father Peck"
Quote: "You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way."
Bith Name:
Eldred Gregory Peck
Height: 6' 3"
Eye Color: brown
Hair Color: black
Nickname: "Father Peck"
Quote: "You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way."
He stayed for just one academic year, thereafter obtaining admission to his first-choice college, the University of California, Berkeley. Partly because of Peck's stature, the Berkeley acting coach decided Peck would be perfect for university theater work. Peck developed an interest in acting and was recruited by Edwin Duerr, director of the university's Little Theater. He went on to appear in five plays during his senior year. After graduating from Berkeley with a BA degree in English, Peck dropped the name "Eldred" and headed to New York City to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse with the legendary acting teacher Sanford Meisner.
He made his Broadway debut as the lead in Emlyn Williams' The Morning Star in 1942. Peck's first film, Days of Glory, was released in 1944. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor five times, four of which came in his first five years of film acting: for The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), The Yearling (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and Twelve O'Clock High (1949). Duel in the Sun (1946) showed his range as an actor in his first "against type" role as a cruel, libidinous gunslinger. Gentleman's Agreement established his power in the "social conscience" genre in a film that took on the deep-seated but subtle anti-Semitism of mid-century corporate America.
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Gregory Peck's Selected Filmography
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)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
Pictura: An Adventure in Art (1951)
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
The Bravados (1958)
The Big Country (1958)
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
Beloved Infidel (1959)
On the Beach (1959)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Cape Fear (1962)
Lykke og krone (1962)
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)
Arabesque (1966)
Pähkähullu Suomi (1967)
The Stalking Moon (1969)
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
The Chairman (1969)
Marooned (1969)
I Walk the Line (1970)
Shoot Out (1971)
Billy Two Hats (1974)
The Dove (1974)
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)
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
Sanford Meisner:
The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret (1985)
Directed by William Wyler (1986)
Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
Old Gringo (1989)
Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (1989)
Other People's Money (1991)
Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days (1991)
Cape Fear (1991)
The Portrait (1993)
L'Hidato Shel Adolf Eichmann (1994)
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996)
The Art of Norton Simon (1999)
A Conversation With Gregory Peck (2000)
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)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
Pictura: An Adventure in Art (1951)
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
The Bravados (1958)
The Big Country (1958)
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
Beloved Infidel (1959)
On the Beach (1959)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Cape Fear (1962)
Lykke og krone (1962)
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)
Arabesque (1966)
Pähkähullu Suomi (1967)
The Stalking Moon (1969)
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
The Chairman (1969)
Marooned (1969)
I Walk the Line (1970)
Shoot Out (1971)
Billy Two Hats (1974)
The Dove (1974)
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)
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
Sanford Meisner:
The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret (1985)
Directed by William Wyler (1986)
Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
Old Gringo (1989)
Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (1989)
Other People's Money (1991)
Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days (1991)
Cape Fear (1991)
The Portrait (1993)
L'Hidato Shel Adolf Eichmann (1994)
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996)
The Art of Norton Simon (1999)
A Conversation With Gregory Peck (2000)
Full Movie: The Gunfighter (1950)
Notorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo rides into town to find his true love, who doesn't want to see him. He hasn't come looking for trouble, but trouble finds him around every corner. - Taken from IMDB
Among his other films were Spellbound (1945), The Paradine Case (1947), The Gunfighter (1950), Moby Dick (1956), On the Beach (1959), which brought to life the terrors of global nuclear war, The Guns of Navarone (1961), and Roman Holiday (1953), with Audrey Hepburn in her Oscar-winning role. Peck and Hepburn were close friends until her death; Peck even introduced her to her first husband, Mel Ferrer. Peck once again teamed up with director William Wyler in the epic Western The Big Country (1958), which he co-produced.
Peck was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning once. He was nominated for The Keys of the Kingdom (1945), The Yearling (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and Twelve O'Clock High (1949). He won the Academy award with his fifth nomination, playing Atticus Finch, a Depression-era lawyer and widowed father, in a film adaptation of the Harper Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Released in 1962 during the height of the US civil rights movement in the South, this movie and his role were Peck's favorites. On June 12, 2003, Peck died in his sleep at home at the age of 87.
Early Days Productions: Gregory Peck 04/06/2012
