Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
4/5/1916
Place of Birth
La Jolla, California, USA
Also Known As
Eldred Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck
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 successf...
Known For
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
The Chairman
as John Hathaway
Designing Woman
as Mike Hagen
To Kill a Mockingbird
as Atticus Finch
Old Gringo
as Ambrose Bierce
Cape Fear
as Sam Bowden
MacArthur
as Douglas MacArthur
Shoot Out
as Clay Lomax
The Guns of Navarone
as Capt. Keith Mallory
The Bravados
as Jim Douglass
How the West Was Won
as Cleve Van Valen
The Gunfighter
as Jimmy Ringo
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
as Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N
The Big Country
as James McKay
Marooned
as Charles Keith
Yellow Sky
as James "Stretch" Dawson
Arabesque
as Prof. David Pollock
Duel in the Sun
as Lewton "Lewt" McCanles
The Portrait
as Gardner Church
The Yearling
as Ezra "Penny" Baxter