Gregory Peck's biography

Gregory Peck is 87 years old film actor born at La Jolla. He was born on Wednesday 5th of April 1916. He is often nicknamed as Father PeckGreg. According to year of birth 1916 he belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 5th of April means he is Aries. Aries is the most active sign of Zodiac, one born with this sign is a very quick learner, aggressive and passionate.He was married 2 times.

He is citizen of United States of America. He is an adherent of catholicism. His primary profession is to be film actor. You can know him also as character actor, film producer, stage actor. He is recently known as television actor.

Gregory Peck's mom

Gregory Peck's mother's name is Bernice Mae Ayres.

Gregory Peck's family

Gregory Peck's ex spouses

Veronique Peck

Gregory Peck and Veronique Peck have been together since 1955 for 48 years. She is known as journalist. His ex spouse was born on Friday 5th of February 1932 in Paris. His ex spouse died on Friday 17th of August 2012 in Los Angeles. Veronique Peck was 96 years old, when this happened.

Greta Kukkonen

Gregory Peck and Greta Kukkonen have been together since 1942 for 13 years.

He has 1 daughter.

Gregory Peck's daughter: Cecilia Peck

Gregory Peck's daughter's name is Cecilia Peck. She is known as actor. His daughter was born on Thursday 1st of May 1958 in Los Angeles.

Gregory Peck's schools

We found 4 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: San Diego State University, University of California, Berkeley, San Diego High School, Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.

Detailed informations about his schools

Attended and graduated from San Diego High School in San Diego, California (1934).

Gregory Peck's career

His main focus is to be film actor. You could see him also in To Kill a Mockingbird, The Yearling, Moby Dick and many more.

How did Gregory Peck die

He died on on Thursday 12th of June 2003 when he was 87 years old. Gregory Pecks death was caused by cardiorespiratory arrest and bronchial pneumonia. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Gregory Peck's Awards

Recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom, nation's highest civilian award, awarded by Lyndon B. Johnson. [1969]
Was the first native Californian to receive an Academy Award for Best Actor.
He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington, D.C. (1998).
In 1997, as a presenter at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) awards ceremony, he said, "It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.".
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6100 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
Owned a race horse called Owen Sedge which he saw come seventh in the 1963 Grand National. He then flew back to the States to attended the Oscar ceremony and won Best Actor Award for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).
Was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1967).

Gregory Peck's Rankings

His performance as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) is ranked #13 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Gregory Peck's Nominations

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor for work The Keys of the Kingdom in 1945
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for work The Yearling in 1946
He was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for work To Kill a Mockingbird in 1962
He was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for work Captain Newman, M.D. in 1963
He was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for work MacArthur in 1977
He was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for work The Boys from Brazil in 1978
He was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for work Moby Dick in 1998

What Gregory Peck has done for a first time

(1967-1969) Chairman, American Film Institute. He was the first Chairman of the AFI.
Was the first native Californian to receive an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Peck's first effort as producer, "Thieves' Market", in which he planned to star with Ava Gardner, was abandoned because "we were unable to develop the script properly".
After filming Roman Holiday he informed the producers that, as Audrey Hepburn was certainly going to win an Oscar (for this, her first major role), they had better put her name above the title. They did and she did.

Gregory Peck's Donations

Was a lifelong Democrat and generously donated time and money to many causes.

Gregory Peck's quotes

[when he discovered that his second wife, French journalist Veronique Peck, had passed up an opportunity to interview Albert Schweitzer at a lunch hosted by Jean-Paul Sartre in order to go out on a date with Peck] You made the right choice, kiddo!
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.
I just do things I really enjoy. I enjoy acting. When I'm driving to the studio, I sing in the car. I love my work and my wife and my kids and my friends. And I think, "You're a lucky man, Gregory Peck, a damn lucky man."
Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a second Gary Cooper. Actually, he is the first Gregory Peck.
[on gay rights] It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.
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.
I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
Faith is a force, a powerful force. To me, it's been like an anchor to windward - something that's seen me through troubled times and some personal tragedies and also through the good times and success and the happy times.
[on Gentleman's Agreement (1947)] We felt we were brave pioneers exploring anti-Semitism in the United States - today, it seems a little dated.
[on The Boys from Brazil (1978)] I felt, Laurence Olivier felt, friends of mine like Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon felt, that I was good in this part. Some critics seem unwilling to accept actors when they break what they think is the mold or the image.
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.
[1956] Of the movies I've done, there isn't much I really like. The Gunfighter (1950), Roman Holiday (1953), Twelve O'Clock High (1949) I feel were my best.
I realize now how very short life is, because I've got to be considered to be in the home stretch. But I won't waste time on recriminations and regrets. And the same goes for my shortcomings and my own failures.
Every script I'm offered has Cary Grant's paw prints on it.
[on what he thought about stars being paid $30 million per movie] I was born too soon!
[2000] Do I think there's a glamorous male actor today? No way.
[on Frank Sinatra] Undeniably the title holder in the soft-touch department.
One good thing about the bad movies is that people don't remember them. Nobody ever comes up to me and says, 'I hated you in I Walk the Line (1970)!'.
I enjoy practicing my craft as well as I possibly can. I enjoy the work for its own sake.
I can honestly say that in twenty years of making movies I never had a part that came close to being the real me until Atticus Finch.
[on preferring his middle name to his first name] There's no nickname for Eldred.
When I'm wrongly cast, or in a poor script, I sink with the ship.
[on The Yearling (1946) in a 1967 interview] It was much too lushly done... The boy cried too much.
People identify the Stanislavsky method with a group of actors who are physically unlike me - Marlon Brando, James Dean, nowadays Al Pacino, Robert De Niro. That doesn't mean a tall, lanky California actor can't use it. I do and always have.
If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

Gregory Peck's body shape

Lets describe how Gregory Peck looks. We will focus on his body shape. Body build is average.

Gregory Peck