Gregory Peck, Biography, Movies, Wife, children, Net Worth & Death

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Gregory Peck Biography

Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor. Famous for portraying  Atticus Finch in the 1962 drama film “To Kill a Mockingbird”.Peck received five Academy Awards in his lifetime.

Gregory Peck Age

Eldred Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916, in San Diego, California, USA.

Gregory Peck Death

Peck died on June 12, 2003, in his sleep at his Los Angeles home. His wife, Veronique, was by his side. He was 87 years old at the time of his death. Gregory peck cause of death was termed to be bronchopneumonia.

Gregory Peck Funeral

A funeral mass was held in honor of Peck, the celebrities who attended his funeral included Lauren Bacall, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Shari Belafonte, Harrison Ford, Calista Flockhart, Mike Farrell, Shelley Fabares, Jimmy Smits, Louis Jourdan, Dyan Cannon, Stephanie Zimbalist.

Michael York, Angie Dickinson, Larry Gelbart, Michael Jackson, Anjelica Huston, Lionel Richie, Louise Fletcher, Tony Danza, and Piper Laurie. His eulogy was read by Brock Peters, whose character, Tom Robinson, was defended by Peck’s Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Gregory Peck is buried in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels mausoleum in Los Angeles.

Gregory Peck Acting

While earning his living working various odd jobs around New York City, in 1942 Peck made his Broadway debut in The Morning Star. Though the production was not well received by audiences, Peck earned critical acclaim for his acting and his career began to blossom.

In 1944, Peck landed a role in his first Hollywood film, Days of Glory, playing a Russian guerrilla fighter. His fame grew following the film’s release and continued to flourish later that year, with The Keys of the Kingdom, in which he played a missionary priest and earned his first in a flurry of Academy Award nominations.

For his performance as a veteran of the Civil War in The Yearling (1946), Peck received his second Oscar nod, followed by a 1948 best-actor nomination for his portrayal of Philip Schuyler Green in Elia Kazan’s Gentleman’s Agreement, a film about a reporter who pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism.

Gregory Peck Movies

♦ Days of Glory Vladimir
♦ The Keys of the Kingdom
♦ The Valley of Decision

♦ Spellbound
♦ The Yearling
♦ Duel in the Sun

♦ The Macomber Affair
♦ Gentleman’s Agreement
♦ The Paradine Case

♦ Yellow Sky
♦ The Great Sinner
♦ Twelve O’Clock High

♦ The Gunfighter
♦ Captain Horatio Hornblower
♦ Only the Valiant

♦ David and Bathsheba
♦ The World in His Arms
♦ The Snows of Kilimanjaro

♦ Roman Holiday
♦ The Million Pound Note
♦ Night People

♦ The Purple Plain
♦ The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
♦ Moby Dick

♦ Designing Woman
♦ The Bravados
♦ The Big Country

♦ Pork Chop Hill
♦ Beloved Infidel
♦ On the Beach

♦ The Guns of Navarone
♦ Cape Fear

Gregory Peck To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan. The screenplay by Horton Foote is based on Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name.

It stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch and Mary Badham as Scout. To Kill a Mockingbird marked the film debuts of Robert Duvall, William Windom, and Alice Ghostley.

The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and was a box-office success, earning more than six times its budget. The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Peck, and was nominated for eight, including Best Picture.

In 1995, the film was listed in the National Film Registry. In 2003, the American Film Institute named Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th century. In 2007, the film ranked twenty-fifth on the AFI’s 10th-anniversary list of the greatest American movies of all time.

In 2005, the British Film Institute included it in their list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14. The film was restored and released on Blu-ray and DVD in 2012, as part of the 100th anniversary of Universal Pictures.

Gregory Peck Moby Dick

Moby Dick is a 1956 film adapted from Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick. It was directed by John Huston with a screenplay by Huston and Ray Bradbury. The film starred Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab Richard Basehart and Leo Genn. The music score was written by Philip Sainton.

the movie plot is Set in 19th-century New England, the story follows the whaling ship Pequod and its crew. Leading them is Captain Ahab a fictional character and the main protagonist in the film). He is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship Pequod.

Ahab was almost killed in an encounter with the “great white whale”, Moby Dick, which bit off much of his left leg. Now he is out for revenge. With the crew that has joined him.

Ahab is out to destroy the huge sea mammal, but his obsession with a vengeance is so great that he cannot turn back, eventually leading to the death of Ahab and all of his crew, except his newest able seaman, Ishmael.

Gregory Peck Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by William Wyler. It stars Gregory Peck as a reporter and Audrey Hepburn as a royal princess out to see Rome on her own. Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance; the screenplay and costume design also won.

Gregory Peck Awards

Academy Award for Best Actor-1963 · To Kill a Mockingbird
AFI Life Achievement Award-1989
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama

1963, 1947 · To Kill a Mockingbird,
The Yearling-Presidential Medal of Freedom-1969
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award-1969

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award-1968
Kennedy Center Honors-1991
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award-1970

Honorary César-1995
Golden Globe Henrietta Award for World Film Favorites-1955, 1951
National Medal of Arts-David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor-1963 · To Kill a Mockingbird

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television-1999 · The Rat Pack, Moby Dick
David di Donatello Special Award-2003

German Film Award for Lifetime Achievement-1998
American Society of Cinematographers Board of the Governors Award-1990

Gregory Peck Parents

Gregory peck was the son of Bernice Mae “Bunny”1894–1992. And Gregory Pearl Peck 1886–1962 a Rochester, New York-born chemist, and pharmacist. His father was of English and Irish heritage and his mother was of English and Scots ancestry.

She converted to her husband’s religion, Roman Catholicism when she married Gregory Pearl, and Peck was raised as a Catholic. Through his Irish-born paternal grandmother Catherine Ashe 1864–1926.

Peck was related to Thomas Ashe 1885–1917, who participated in the Easter Rising less than three weeks after Peck’s birth and died while being force-fed during his hunger strike in 1917.

Gregory Peck Wife And Children

Peck married Finnish Greta Kukkonen (1911–2008)In October 1942. With whom he had three sons: Jonathan (1944–1975), Stephen (b. 1946), and Carey Paul (b. 1949). They were divorced on December 31, 1955.

On New Year’s Day in 1956, the day after his divorce was finalized, Peck married Veronique Passani (1932–2012). A Paris news reporter who had interviewed him in 1952 before he went to Italy to film Roman Holiday.

They had a son, Anthony Peck (b. 1956), and a daughter, Cecilia Peck (b. 1958). The couple remained married until Gregory Peck’s death. His son Anthony is an ex-husband of supermodel Cheryl Tiegs.

His daughter Cecilia lives in Los Angeles. Peck’s eldest son, Jonathan, was found dead in his home on June 26, 1975, in what authorities believed was a suicide.

Gregory Peck Grandchildren

Peck had grandchildren from both marriages. One of his grandsons from his first marriage is actor Ethan Peck.who owned the thoroughbred steeplechase race horse Different Class, which raced in England. The horse was favored for the 1968 Grand National but finished third. Ethan Peck was close friends with French president Jacques Chirac.

Gregory Peck Net Worth

Gregory Peck, by the time of his death, he had amassed a total net worth of $40 million.  Peck’s primary source of wealth was acting,

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