Gregory Peck

1916-2003

Biography: life and films

Gregory Peck was an American actor and producer whose birth name was Eldred Gregory Peck. He was born in La Jolla, California, USA on 5th April 1916 and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on 12th June 2003, aged 87.

His best films as an actor include Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Spellbound (1945), Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (1947), William Wyler's Roman Holiday (1953), Robert Mulligan's To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and Bruce Herschensohn's John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums (1965).

Gregory Peck appeared in 62 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Henry King (6 films), J. Lee Thompson (4), William Wyler (2), Robert Mulligan (2), Raoul Walsh (2), Nunnally Johnson (2), John Frankenheimer (2) and Alfred Hitchcock (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (34 films), romance (13), War (13), Western (11), Thriller (8), Documentary (6), history (5), comedy-romance (4), comedy (4), comedy-drama (3), Horror (3), crime-thriller (2) and Biography (2).

Our average rating for Gregory Peck over all films is: 3.2

Filmography

Key: a = actor

Days of Glory (1944) [a]

The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) [a]

Spellbound (1945) [a]

The Valley of Decision (1945) [a]

Duel in the Sun (1946) [a]

The Yearling (1946) [a]

Gentleman's Agreement (1947) [a]

The Macomber Affair (1947) [a]

The Paradine Case (1947) [a]

Yellow Sky (1948) [a]

The Great Sinner (1949) [a]

Twelve O'Clock High (1949) [a]

The Gunfighter (1950) [a]

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) [a]

David and Bathsheba (1951) [a]

Only the Valiant (1951) [a]

Pictura (1951) [a]

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) [a]

The World in His Arms (1952) [a]

Roman Holiday (1953) [a]

The Million Pound Note (1953) [a]

Boum sur Paris (1954) [a]

Night People (1954) [a]

The Purple Plain (1954) [a]

Moby Dick (1956) [a]

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) [a]

Designing Woman (1957) [a]

The Big Country (1958) [a]

The Bravados (1958) [a]

Beloved Infidel (1959) [a]

On the Beach (1959) [a]

Pork Chop Hill (1959) [a]

The Guns of Navarone (1961) [a]

Cape Fear (1962) [a]

How the West Was Won (1962) [a]

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) [a]

Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) [a]

Behold a Pale Horse (1964) [a]

John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums (1965) [a]

Mirage (1965) [a]

Arabesque (1966) [a]

The Stalking Moon (1968) [a]

Mackenna's Gold (1969) [a]

Marooned (1969) [a]

The Chairman (1969) [a]

The Extraordinary Seaman (1969) [a]

I Walk the Line (1970) [a]

Shoot Out (1971) [a]

Billy Two Hats (1974) [a]

All This and World War II (1976) [a]

The Omen (1976) [a]

MacArthur (1977) [a]

The Boys from Brazil (1978) [a]

Ken Murray Shooting Stars (1979) [a]

The Sea Wolves (1980) [a]

La Hora bruja (1985) [a]

Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987) [a]

Old Gringo (1989) [a]

Cape Fear (1991) [a]

Other People's Money (1991) [a]

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995) [a]

Trumbo (2015) [a]



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