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Gregory Peck
Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor. He was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck the 12th-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
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Born 5 April 1916 · Died 12 June 2003 · Q108366
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2026· 4 entries
“the futility of settling political arguments by killing young men. We tried not to preach; we let it speak for itself.”
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“King was like an older brother, even a father figure. We communicated without talking anything to death. It was direction by osmosis.”
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“s on-set indifference to his character”
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2017· 1 entry
Show that the National Security Agency had created a biographical file on Peck as part of its monitoring of prominent US citizens
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2008· 1 entry
To commemorate their father by honoring the life's work of a director, producer or actor
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2003· 8 entries
Died 2003-06-12.
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Peck died in his sleep from bronchopneumonia at the age of 87 at his home in Los Angeles
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Editor Barry Monush wrote, "There was, and continues to be, controversy over his casting as Ahab in Moby Dick
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“You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.”
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“They say the bad guys are more interesting to play but there is more to it than that — playing the good guys is more challenging because it's harder to make them interesting.”
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“I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.”
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“I put everything I had into it — all my feelings and everything I'd learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children. And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity.”
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Atticus Finch, as portrayed by Peck, was named the greatest film hero of the past 100 years by the American Film Institute
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Marian Anderson Award (1999).
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The American Film Institute named Peck the 12th-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema
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1998· 1 entry
Peck received the National Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton for his contributions to acting
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1996· 2 entries
“it was a very special experience for me and three of the greatest years of my life. It woke me up and made me a human being.”
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Peck donated $25,000 to the Berkeley rowing crew in honor of his coach, Ky Ebright
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary César (1995).
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1993· 1 entry
Won Honorary Golden Bear (1993).
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1991· 2 entries
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1991).
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In Other People's Money, directed by Norman Jewison and based on the stage play of that name
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1990· 1 entry
Peck took in both her housekeeper and her dog
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded AFI Life Achievement Award (1989).
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1987· 1 entry
Peck undertook the voice-overs for television commercials opposing President Ronald Reagan's Supreme Court nomination of judge Robert Bork
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Donostia Award (1986).
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1983· 2 entries
The La Jolla Playhouse re-opened in a new home at the University of California, San Diego, where it operates today
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Starred opposite Christopher Plummer in The Scarlet and The Black as Hugh O'Flaherty, a Catholic priest who saved thousands of escaped Allied POWs and Jewish people in Rome during the Second World War
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1978· 2 entries
The infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele in The Boys from Brazil
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Peck traveled to Alabama, the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird, to campaign for Democratic U
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1976· 1 entry
Despite his reservations about American general Douglas MacArthur as a man, Peck had long wanted to play him on film, and did so in MacArthur in 1976.
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1975· 2 entries
In what authorities believed was a suicide
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Peck's eldest son was found dead in his home on June 26, 1975, in what authorities believed was a suicide. "It's the most terrible thing that has happened to me in my life," Peck said once. "You never get over a thing like that."
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1974· 1 entry
That he had tried producing and acting simultaneously and felt "either it can't be done or it's just that I don't do it well
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1972· 1 entry
Peck produced the film version of Daniel Berrigan's play The Trial of the Catonsville Nine about the prosecution of a group of Vietnam protesters for civil disobedience
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award (1970).
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As a possible Democratic candidate to run against Ronald Reagan for the office of California Governor
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1969· 1 entry
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Lyndon B. Johnson (1969).
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1968· 3 entries
Awarded Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1968).
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Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1968).
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Intended to offer Peck the post of U
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1967· 2 entries
Received their Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
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Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute from 1967 to 1969, Chairman of the Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund in 1971, and National Chairman of the American Cancer Society in 1966
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1963· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for To Kill a Mockingbird (1963).
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Awarded David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor for To Kill a Mockingbird (1963).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for To Kill a Mockingbird (1963).
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Owen's Sedge finished seventh in the Grand National
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1958· 1 entry
Peck and good friend William Wyler co-produced the Western epic The Big Country (1958) separate from Peck's production company
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1956· 2 entries
They had a son, Anthony Peck (b. 1956), and a daughter, Cecilia Peck (b. 1958).
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Peck made a foray into the film production business, organizing Melville Productions and later, Brentwood Productions
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1955· 1 entry
The day after his divorce was final, Peck married Véronique Passani (1932–2012), a Paris news reporter who had interviewed him in 1952 before he went to Italy to film Roman Holiday
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1954· 3 entries
Awarded Henrietta Award (1954).
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Peck was named the third most popular non-British film star in the United Kingdom
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And was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded Henrietta Award (1950).
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1947· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Yearling (1947).
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While many Hollywood figures were being blacklisted for similar activities, Peck signed a letter deploring a House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of alleged communists in the film industry
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Peck co-founded The La Jolla Playhouse at his birthplace with Mel Ferrer and Dorothy McGuire
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And was regarded as a political opponent by Richard Nixon
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1941· 2 entries
When he played the secretary in a Katharine Cornell production of George Bernard Shaw's play The Doctor's Dilemma
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Who stumble across a beautiful Russian dancer (Toumanova), who had been sent to entertain Russian troops; they protect her by letting her join their group
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1939· 1 entry
Studied at University of California, Berkeley (1939).
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1934· 1 entry
Enrolled for one year at San Diego State Teachers’ College (now known as San Diego State University)
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1916· 2 entries
In the neighborhood of La Jolla in San Diego, California, to Bernice Mae "Bunny" (née Ayres; 1894–1992), and Gregory Pearl Peck (1886–1962), a Rochester, New York–born chemist and pharmacist
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Born 1916-04-05.
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1903· 1 entry
London who is given a one million pound bank note by two rich, eccentric brothers who wish to ascertain if he can survive for one month without spending any of it
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1850· 1 entry
San Francisco who romances a Russian countess played by Ann Blyth and ends up engaging a rival sealer played by Anthony Quinn in a sailing race to Alaska
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