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Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor and 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.
Dec 12, 2023 · Gregory Peck found fame, fortune, and a kind of immortality in Hollywood, but his life was marked by heartache and loss. Here's his tragic real-life story.
- He Watched Them Fall Apart. Gregory Peck’s birth took place on April 5, 1916, in a seaside neighborhood in San Diego, California. However, his beginnings were anything but idyllic.
- He Felt Abandoned. When Peck's parents split, they agreed on only one thing, and it was rather devastating: Neither of them wanted to raise their son.
- He Saw Them All. Peck’s grandmother had taken over where his parents had dropped the ball, but it's not clear how good of a replacement parent she was.
- He Feared The Movies. It turned out that grandma should have been a little more careful in her movie choices. When Peck was just nine years old, she took him to see The Phantom of the Opera.
Apr 2, 2014 · Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916, in La Jolla, California. His parents, Bernice "Bunny" Mae and Gregory Pearl Peck, separated when he was three and divorced several years later.
Jun 13, 2003 · Academy Award winner Gregory Peck, one of Hollywood’s best-loved actors, whose characters embodied a gentle dignity, heroism and compassion for the underdog in such films as “To Kill a...
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Dec 14, 2012 · He was a liberal activist who produced a film opposing the Vietnam War in 1972, four years after Presi-dent Lyndon B. Johnson awarded him the Medal of Freedom. It was as the courtly, righteous small-town lawyer in “To Kill a Mockingbird” that Mr. Peck found the role of a lifetime.
One of cinema’s most respected actors, Gregory Peck appeared in more than 60 films during an esteemed career that stretched from the 1940’s to the early 2000’s. His dignity, humanity, and integrity impressed critics from the start and endeared him to generations of moviegoers.
