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• Gregory Peck was an award-winning American film actor. He was a big star for 20th Century Fox from the 1940s to the 1960s. He was nominated for five Academy Awards.

  After graduating from Cal Berkeley with a B.A. in english, he moved to New York to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner. He returned west to Hollywood and in 1949 founded the La Jolla Playhouse with fellow actors, Jose Ferrer and Dorothy McGuire.

  His most iconic roles were as Atticus Finch in the 1962 film version of To Kill a Mockingbird and Captain Ahab in the 1956 version of Moby Dick.

• Fast Facts

  1. Birth Name: Eldred Gregory Peck
  2. Born: April 5, 1916
  3. Birthplace: La Jolla, California
  4. Died: June 12, 2003
  5. Won the 1963 Best Actor Academy Award for To Kill a Mockingbird
  6. Ranked number 12 on the American Film Institute's list of the Greatest Male Stars of All Time

• Notable Films

  1. 1945: Spellbound
  2. 1946: Duel in the Sun
  3. 1946: The Yearling
  4. 1950: The Gunfighter
  5. 1952: The Snows of Kilimanjaro
  6. 1953: Roman Holiday
  7. 1956: Moby Dick
  8. 1961: The Guns of Navarone
  9. 1962: Cape Fear
  10. 1962: How the West Was Won
  11. 1962: To Kill a Mockingbird
  12. 1966: Arabesque
  13. 1976: The Omen
  14. 1978: Boys from Brazil
  15. 1989: Old Gringo

• Quotes

  1. [on gay rights] "It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all."
  2. "I am a Roman Catholic. Not a fanatic, but I practice enough to keep the franchise. I don't always agree with the Pope . . . there are issues that concern me, like abortion, contraception, the ordination of women . . . and others. I think the Church should open up."
  3. "Every script I'm offered has Cary Grant's paw prints on it."
  4. "I've had my ups and downs. There have been times when I wanted to quit. Times when I hit the bottle. Marital problems. I've touched most of the bases."

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