Gregory Peck

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.

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

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."

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• 1916: Born

• 1944: "Days of Glory"

• 1946: "The Yearling"

• 1949: "12 o'clock High"

• 1950: "Thge Gun Fighter"

• 1953: "Roman Holiday"

• 1959: "Pork Chop Hill"

• 1962: "Cape Fear"

• 1962: "To Kill a Mockingbird"

• 1969: Received the Cecil DeMille Award

• 1976: "The Omen"

• 1977: "MacArthur"

• 1987: "Amazing Grace and Chuck"

• 1991: "Cape Fear"

• June 12th, 2003: Death

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