Biography
Peck began appearing in movies during the war with "Days of Glory" (1944) and became an almost instant star thanks to his Oscar-nominated performance in "The Keys of the Kingdom" (1945). He went on to portray an amnesiac psychoanalyst in Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound" (1945), turned in another Academy Award-worthy performance in 'The Yearling" (1946) and played against type in "Duel in the Sun" (1946). Following seminal work in "Twelve …
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Career Milestones
1999 | Narrated the documentary "From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff" | |
1998 | Portrayed fire and brimstone preacher in USA Network miniseries version of "Moby Dick", receiving an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe Award for his efforts | |
1996 | Rushed to hospital and underwent surgery for appendicitis in the Czech Republic | |
1995 | Began performing a one-man show of anecdotes and film clips from his career, "An Evening with Gregory Peck" (originally entitled "A Conversation with Gregory Peck"); TNT has completed an untitled documentary about these shows, written by daughter Cecilia Peck; Mary Badham, who played Scout in "To Kill a Mockingbird", came to a 1995 show in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and the two reenacted a "Mockingbird" scene together; retired the production in February 2000 | |
1993 | Executive produced and starred opposite Bacall and his daughter Cecilia in Arthur Penn's "The Portrait" (TNT) | |
1991 | Provided the recorded voice of Florenz Ziegfeld in the Broadway musical "The Will Rogers Follies" | |
1991 | Last feature film roles to date, a co-starring role in "Other People's Money" and a cameo in Martin Scorsese's remake of "Cape Fear" | |
1989 | Played Ambrose Bierce in "Old Gringo", adapted from the novel by Carlos Fuentes | |
1982 | TV acting debut as Abraham Lincoln in the CBS miniseries "The Blue and the Gray", directed by McLaglen | |
1980 | First association with director Andrew V McLaglen, "The Sea Wolves" | |
1978 | Portrayed Joseph Mengele in "The Boys from Brazil" | |
1977 | Offered a striking performance as "MacArthur" | |
1976 | Starred in Richard Donner's "The Omen" as the father of a child who could be the Anti-Christ | |
1974 | Last feature producing credit to date, "The Dove"; did not act in picture | |
1972 | Produced "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine"; did not act in picture | |
1969 | Essayed the title role in Thompson's "Mackenna's Gold"; also acted that year in Thompson's "The Chairman" | |
1968 | Reteamed with Mulligan for "The Stalking Moon" | |
1966 | Starred opposite Sophia Loren in Stanley Donen's secret agent thriller "Arabesque" | |
1964 | Produced and starred in "Behold a Pale Horse" | |
1962 | Finally took home the Best Actor Oscar as liberal country lawyer Atticus Finch (what he calls his signature role) in Robert Mulligan's "To Kill a Mockingbird", based on the Harper Lee novel | |
1962 | Produced (with Bartlett) and starred in Thompson's "Cape Fear" | |
1961 | First of four collaborations with director J Lee Thompson, "The Guns of Navarone" | |
1959 | Played the conscience-laden platoon commander in Korean War drama "Pork Chop Hill"; also produced (with Sy Bartlett) | |
1959 | Sixth and last picture with King, "Beloved Infidel", miscast him as writer F Scott Fitzgerald, but he believed (rightly or wrongly) his scenes of despair and drunkenness were among the best he ever did | |
1958 | Film producing debut, Wyler's "The Big Country" (co-produced by Wyler); also starred | |
1957 | Stoically endured a plate of spaghetti tipped in his lap by Lauren Bacall in "Designing Women" | |
1956 | Portrayed Captain Ahab in John Huston's "Moby Dick" | |
1953 | First collaboration with director William Wyler, "Roman Holiday", the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn to the public | |
1952 | Fourth film with King, "The Snows of Kiliminjaro"; his second film based on a Hemingway story; second of three films with Ava Gardner | |
1952 | Reteamed with Walsh as the skipper in "The World in His Arms" | |
1951 | Took to the high seas as Raoul Walsh's "Captain Horatio Hornblower" | |
1950 | Starred as King's "The Gunfighter", attempting to overcome his bloody past; voted "Cowboy of the Year" (over John Wayne!) on the strength of his performance; also turned down the following year's "High Noon" (which earned Gary Cooper an Oscar) because he didn't want to do back-to-back Westerns | |
1949 | Snagged fourth Best Actor Oscar nomination for his riveting portrayal of a commander cracking under the strain of war in "Twelve O'Clock High"; first of six films with director Henry King | |
1947 | First film based on an Ernest Hemingway story "The Macomber Affair" | |
1947 | Reteamed with Hitchcock on "The Paradine Case" | |
1947 | Played a reporter uncovering anti-semitism in Elia Kazan's "Gentleman's Agreement", earned third Academy Award nomination as Best Actor | |
1946 | Received second Best Actor Academy Award nod as the father in "The Yearling" | |
1945 | Acted in Alfred Hitchcok's "Spellbound" | |
1945 | Earned first Best Actor Oscar nomination for his second feature, "The Keys of the Kingdom" | |
1944 | Film acting debut, "Days of Glory" | |
| Spotted by talent scouts and signed to contracts by four film studios | ||
1942 | Broadway debut in "The Morning Star" | |
1941 | Professional stage debut, had small role in the touring company of "The Doctor's Dilemma" starring Katharine Cornell | |
1939 | Worked as a barker at a concession in the amusement zone of the New York World's Fair and later as a tour guide at Radio City Music Hall | |
| After graduating, moved to NYC | ||
| Suffered spinal injury; could no longer compete in sports | ||
1928 | Travelled to New York with Berkeley crew team for competition; stopped off in NYC and saw first Broadway show, "I Married an Angel"; inspired to become an actor | |
| While a 19-year-old undergraduate at UC-Berkely, acted in his first play, an adaptation of "Moby Dick", in which he played the first mate Starbuck | ||
| Raised in Southern California | ||
Awards
1998 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television in Moby Dick |
1998 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie in Moby Dick |
1996 | Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema |
1993 | Berlin International Film Festival for Honorary Golden Bear |
1986 | San Sebastian International Film Festival for Donostia Award |
1978 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama in The Boys From Brazil |
1977 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama in MacArthur |
1970 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Life Achievement |
1968 | Golden Globe Award for Cecil B. DeMille Award |
1963 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama in Captain Newman, M.D. |
1963 | BAFTA Award for Foreign Actor in To Kill a Mockingbird |
1962 | Academy Award for Actor in To Kill a Mockingbird |
1962 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama in To Kill a Mockingbird |
1954 | Golden Globe Award for Henrietta Award (World Film Favorites) |
1953 | BAFTA Award for Foreign Actor in Roman Holiday |
1950 | Golden Globe Award for Henrietta Award (World Film Favorites) |
1950 | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in Twelve O'Clock High |
1949 | Academy Award for Actor in Twelve O'Clock High |
1947 | Academy Award for Actor in Gentleman's Agreement |
1946 | Academy Award for Actor in The Yearling |
1945 | Academy Award for Actor in The Keys of the Kingdom |