Gregory Peck Net Worth
Gregory Peck Net Worth is
$40 Million
Gregory Peck Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor. One of the world's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play major film roles until the late 1970s. His performance as Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. He had also been nominated for an Oscar for the same category for The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), The Yearling (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and Twelve O'Clock High (1949). Other notable films he appeared in include Spellbound (1945), The Paradine Case (1947), Roman Holiday (1953), Moby Dick (1956) (and its 1998 miniseries of the same name), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Cape Fear (1962) (and its 1991 remake of the same name), How the West Was Won (1962), The Omen (1976) and The Boys from Brazil (1978).President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 12. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1983. | Full Name | Gregory Peck |
| Net Worth | $40 Million |
| Date Of Birth | April 5, 1916, La Jolla, San Diego, California, United States |
| Died | June 12, 2003, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | La Jolla [now in San Diego], California, USA |
| Height | 6' 3" (1.91 m) |
| Weight | 53.5 kilograms |
| Profession | Actor, Producer, Soundtrack |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley, San Diego State University, Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, San Diego High School, St. John's Military Academy |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Veronique Passani (m. 1955–2003), Greta Kukkonen (m. 1942–1955) |
| Children | Cecilia Peck, Jonathan Peck, Anthony Peck, Carey Paul Peck, Stephen Peck |
| Parents | Gregory Pearl Peck, Bernice Mae Ayres |
| Awards | Academy Award for Best Actor, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama, AFI Life Achievement Award, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Kennedy Center Honors, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Golden Gl... |
| Nominations | BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie |
| Movies | Roman Holiday, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Big Country, The Gunfighter, The Guns of Navarone, Duel in the Sun, Twelve O'Clock High, Spellbound, The Omen, Gentleman's Agreement, The Yearling, The Boys from Brazil, Yellow Sky, The Keys of the Kingdom, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Captain Horatio H... |
| TV Shows | The Blue and the Gray |
| Star Sign | Aries |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Often plays leaders or authority figures |
| 2 | Imposing stature |
| 3 | Films often reflected his liberal political views |
| 4 | Distinctive low-pitched voice |
| 5 | Almost always played courageous, nobly heroic good guys who saw injustice and fought it. |
| Title | Salary |
|---|---|
| To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) | $250,000 + 10% of the gross. |
| The Purple Plain (1954) | $250,000 |
| The Million Pound Note (1954) | $250,000 |
| Only the Valiant (1951) | $60,000 |
| Days of Glory (1944) | $10,000 |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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. |
| 2 | [on The Yearling (1946) in a 1967 interview] It was much too lushly done... The boy cried too much. |
| 3 | (In 1984 Peck claimed to have been misquoted in a 1967 interview in which he said Elia Kazan was the wrong director for Gentleman's Agreement (1947).) That's a misunderstanding. I don't think there could have been a better director for the film." What I meant was that he and I didn't have a rapport; emotionally, we were not on the same wave length. I don't think that I did my best work for him. If I worked with him now - as a mature man - I think I would give him everything he would want. |
| 4 | When I'm wrongly cast, or in a poor script, I sink with the ship. |
| 5 | (On Mackenna's Gold (1969) and Marooned (1969)] They weren't very good, but they were the best that was offered. I did not do them only for the money. I knew they weren;t worth much when I read the scripts. But as soon as I started working on them, damned if I didn't start believing in them. It just goes to prove you can't be an actor and Pauline Kael at the same time. |
| 6 | [on preferring his middle name to his first name] There's no nickname for Eldred. |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | [on James Cagney] Now, you take a great cinema actor, in my opinion, James Cagney. He went very far. He was very theatrical, very intense, and yet always believable. He riveted the audience's attention. His acting advice was, "Believe what you say -- say what you believe." And that says it, really. |
| 9 | I enjoy practicing my craft as well as I possibly can. I enjoy the work for its own sake. |
| 10 | 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)!'. |
| 11 | [on Frank Sinatra] Undeniably the title holder in the soft-touch department. |
| 12 | [2000] Do I think there's a glamorous male actor today? No way. |
| 13 | [on what he thought about stars being paid $30 million per movie] I was born too soon! |
| 14 | Marilyn Monroe may have been a bit of an extreme example, but she was given the best stories to suit her talents, she was stroked and cared for and treasured and treated like a little princess, treated as a valuable, talented person. What it was that led her to drink and take pills, I don't know. I don't think anyone can put it all together, but it's too easy to say that Hollywood wrung her out and exhausted her, strained her nerves and destroyed her. I think she'd have gone to pieces even sooner without the adulation and the care she received at the hands of her directors and producers and the big studios. |
| 15 | [on Robert Mitchum] I had given him the role and had paid him a terrific amount of money. It was obvious he had the better role. I thought he would understand that, but he apparently thought he acted me off the screen. I didn't think highly of him for that. |
| 16 | [in 1965] There are times when I could cheerfully walk out on the whole goddamn setup. I don't have to make pictures any more. When I first came out here to work from the New York stage, I was carved up in all directions, a dumb actor tied to a slew of contractual clauses. Today I'm my own man - free, off the hook. This is a collective business, I know. But now it's up to me to decide the stories we use and the kind of picture in which I'm prepared to get involved. I'm no longer the dumb and trusting ham being shuttled from picture to picture at someone else's whim. I'm a company boss who has to make big decisions right or wrong, responsible only to myself in the long run. For years we actors have been fighting for our so-called artistic freedom. We wanted to get rid of the moguls and their accountants. We damned the studio shylocks for their materialism and lack of taste. Now, most of us are on our own. So what happens? This morning I had to call my office and scrap a production on which people had been working for months . . . I decided it would be best to chuck it in rather than risk making a bad picture. All night I've been pacing up and down the house trying to make the right decision. I tell you there are times when I wish Hollywood actors had retained the status of bums and gypsies and left the planning to others. Right now, I'm tempted to say, "The hell with all of it". The picture has changed, my friend. The old omnipotent caliphs are dying fast. Television plus the weight of years has weakened the survivors. It will need energy and a fresh executive approach to redirect the creative drive, re-channel the talent. The monopolies of the studios have been broken. The anti-trust laws have severed their distribution outlets. The shackling of actors to loaded long-term contracts is virtually a thing of the past. In effect, I have complete control over what I do. A year of two back this was considered some kind of victory of art over tyranny. Now I'm not so sure. I'm a free soul, you remember. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be a writer. Freedom of mind and action is important to me. Right now I'd like to take off for Mexico and fish for a while and swim and read books without wondering whether they would make a good picture. Now I'll have to follow another production through from the drawing board to the cutting room. And then go out on the road and sell it with personal appearances. It can be stimulating. A challenge, as they say at Chasens. But there are times when actors like myself find themselves wishing we could resurrect Irving Thalberg and pass the ball to him or people like him. The town's wide open for any operator with the ability to finance, package and sell motion pictures. |
| 17 | Every script I'm offered has Cary Grant's paw prints on it. |
| 18 | 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. |
| 19 | [1987] I would give up everything I do and everything I have if I could make a significant difference in getting the nuclear arms race reversed. It is the number-one priority in my life. My work was the main thing in my life for a long time; now I'm beginning to think a little more about what the future will hold and what kind of world my kids will live in. |
| 20 | That's why those fellas were so magnificent playing the same part, because they'd played it forty times. That's why John Wayne finally became a good actor in True Grit (1969) - he's got 150 of them behind him. Now he's developed a saltiness and an earthiness and a humor and a subtlety that comes from mining that same vein over and over again. |
| 21 | [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. |
| 22 | 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. |
| 23 | [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. |
| 24 | [on Gentleman's Agreement (1947)] We felt we were brave pioneers exploring anti-Semitism in the United States - today, it seems a little dated. |
| 25 | [on meeting Pope John Paul II at the White House in 1978] He impressed me more than any other man I've ever met, and I've met a lot. My wife and I happened to be seated on one of the aisles, and the Pope came right down and he saw me and smiled. The smile was genuine, not a politician smile, the practiced smile. He shook hands with me and went on. And then [US President Jimmy Carter] said, "Hello, Gregory, what are you doing here?" and I said, "Well, Mr. President, you invited me". He said, "Just a minute"--and damned if he didn't run after the Pope, grabbing him by the arm and pulled him back. He said, "Your Excellency, this is one of our best-known, most beloved American film actors". And he looked at me, ah! There was a glimmer as if somehow he must have seen me in a movie. His eyes widened and he took me in his arms. And he sort of grabbed me by the elbow and said, "God bless you, Gregory. God bless you in your mission". And he went on. |
| 26 | 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. |
| 27 | [1987] Robert Bork wants to be a Supreme Court justice. But the record shows he has a strange idea of what justice is. He defended poll taxes and literacy tests, which kept many Americans from voting. He opposed the civil rights law that ended "whites only" signs at lunch counters. He doesn't believe the Constitution protects your privacy. Please urge your senators to vote against the Bork nomination. Because, if Robert Bork wins a seat on the Supreme Court, it will be for life. His life . . . and yours. |
| 28 | [when asked what he thought about the John Holmes porn trial] You know, someone once asked me that and I said the day that Laurence Olivier drops his pants on the screen is the day that I will support adult actors, and then I saw the movie The Betsy (1978). |
| 29 | 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. |
| 30 | 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. |
| 31 | I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain. |
| 32 | 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. |
| 33 | [on gay rights] It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all. |
| 34 | Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a second Gary Cooper. Actually, he is the first Gregory Peck. |
| 35 | 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." |
| 36 | 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. |
| 37 | [on his 1962 Oscar-winning role in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)] 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. |
| 38 | [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! |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | He had Armenian roots from his paternal grandfather, Sam "Peck", an immigrant from England. After Gregory married his second wife, Veronique Passani, she had his ancestry traced and discovered the Armenian lineage. Urging him to learn more about his partial Armenian heritage and to learn the language, he took Armenian classes for a short time in his later years. |
| 2 | Strongly opposed the use of atomic weapons in World War II as he believed a naval blockade would have starved Japan into unconditional surrender. |
| 3 | He strongly opposed the possibility of the United States entering World War II until the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. |
| 4 | The friendship Peck hit off with director William Wyler on Roman Holiday (1953) almost ended during the stressful shoot of The Big Country (1958), on which Peck was the film's co-producer, where the two men clashed so often that by the end they were not on speaking terms with each other. They mended their friendship a year later, after Wyler won the Oscar for Ben-Hur (1959) but they never worked together again. |
| 5 | A major opponent of US involvement in the Korean and Vietnam wars. Peck felt the United States should have retained good relations with the Soviet Union and China after World War II. |
| 6 | Along with Peter Ustinov, Peck delivered the eulogy for friend and two-time co-star David Niven. |
| 7 | He shared an April 5 birthday with double Oscar winners Melvyn Douglas, Spencer Tracy, and Bette Davis. |
| 8 | Injured his spine in a physical training class resulting in his having to wear a back brace for six years and a World War II exemption. "I can ride horses, but I can't pick up a suitcase.". |
| 9 | His favourite director was Henry King and his favourite co-star was Ava Gardner. |
| 10 | The two people he regretted most not working with are John Ford and Greta Garbo. |
| 11 | Peck's father encouraged him to take up medicine but his grades weren't good enough to get him into medical school. He later took a public speaking course at San Diego State, which was his introduction to acting. |
| 12 | 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.". |
| 13 | Peck spent time early in his career working at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, VA - the State Theatre of Virginia. A picture hangs in the theatre of him with an old pickup truck, showing how he worked both behind the scenes as well as on stage. The Barter also boasts stints from Ernest Borgnine, Patricia Neal, Larry Linville, and Kevin Spacey. |
| 14 | John Wayne reportedly turned down two of Peck's most iconic roles: The Gunfighter (1950) and Twelve O'Clock High (1949). |
| 15 | Strongly disliked his first name of Eldred, a name his mother insisted on giving him because she felt it was distinct and would distinguish him with its uniqueness, but to him it felt like an awkward and difficult name to use casually. Early in adulthood he made it a point of using his middle name of Gregory, which he used for the rest of his life. |
| 16 | Was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1967. |
| 17 | Owned a race horse called Owen Sedge which he saw come 7th 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). |
| 18 | Became friends with Audrey Hepburn after working with her in Roman Holiday (1953). Peck successfully persuaded Paramount executives to give her star billing equal to his, rather than "Introducing" credit, because he strongly believed the film rested dramatically on her character's -- and Hepburn's -- shoulders, and not his. Indeed, Hepburn went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 1954 Oscars and they both remained close until her death in 1993. That same year, Peck presented her son Sean H. Ferrer with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in recognition for her work with UNICEF. |
| 19 | Travelling in Alabama making campaign appearances for Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate Donald W. Stewart, who was running in a special election to complete the term of U.S. Senator James B. Allen, who had died in office. Stewart won the seat. [October 1978] |
| 20 | Mark Waid and Alex Ross based the design of the older Bruce Wayne/Batman on Peck for Their seminal 1996 graphic novel ''Kingdom Come''. Frank Miller also based the design of young Bruce in his iconic story ''Batman: Year One''. |
| 21 | Orson Welles had once hoped to make a film of the DC Comics hero Batman with Peck in the lead role but the project never came to fruition. This was revealed to have been a hoax. |
| 22 | Is one of 8 actors who have received an Oscar nomination for their performance as a priest. The others, in chronological order, are: Spencer Tracy for San Francisco (1936) and Boys Town (1938); Charles Bickford for The Song of Bernadette (1943); Bing Crosby for Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945); Barry Fitzgerald for Going My Way (1944); Karl Malden for On the Waterfront (1954); Jason Miller for The Exorcist (1973); and Philip Seymour Hoffman for Doubt (2008). Tracy, Crosby and Fitzgerald all won Oscars for their performances. |
| 23 | The name "Gregory Peck" is used as the Cockney Rhyming Slang for neck (as used traditionally by the inhabitants of East London), so the expression "Get it down your Gregory" means "Drink this!". |
| 24 | Was a lifelong Democrat and generously donated time and money to many causes. |
| 25 | According to Lewis Milestone, Pork Chop Hill (1959) was cut by nearly twenty minutes because Peck's wife felt that her husband made his first entrance too late into the picture. True or not, the film does show signs of post-production tampering, with flashes of several excised scenes showing up under the main title credits. |
| 26 | His picture appears on a nondenominated USA commemorative postage stamp in the Legends of Hollywood series, issued 28 April 2011. Peck is shown as the character Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). Price on day of issue was 44¢. First day of issue ceremonies were held at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. |
| 27 | Grandfather of actor Ethan Peck. |
| 28 | Was offered but declined the role of Det. Steve McGarrett in Hawaii Five-O (1968). |
| 29 | In February 1955 Peck was set to star in The Proud Ones (1956), but the role was eventually played by Robert Ryan. |
| 30 | Was kept out of military service during WWII due to a back injury. |
| 31 | He visited Michael Jackson on the set of filming the "Smooth Criminal" segment for Moonwalker (1988). Also visiting the set was Robert De Niro and Bruce Willis. |
| 32 | He was a close friend of former French President Jacques Chirac. |
| 33 | Was the second choice to play Prof. Henry Jones Sr. in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), had first choice Sean Connery declined the role. Star Harrison Ford cited Peck as one of his favorite actors and To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) as one of his favorite films. |
| 34 | He regularly visited the terminally ill Humphrey Bogart while filming Designing Woman (1957) with Bogart's wife, Peck's old friend, Lauren Bacall. Peck was reportedly devastated by Bogart's death in January 1957. |
| 35 | Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 417-420. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007. |
| 36 | He was a close friend and ardent supporter of President Lyndon Johnson, spending much time at the White House and the Johnson Ranch. However, towards the end of Johnson's presidency relations between the two men were strained, owing to Peck's very vocal opposition to US involvement in Vietnam. |
| 37 | While filming The Bravados (1958), he decided to become a cowboy in real life, so he purchased a vast working ranch near Santa Barbara, California - already stocked with 600 head of prize cattle. |
| 38 | His election as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1967 was widely seen as heralding in a new, younger, progressive and decidedly liberal era of filmmaking in Hollywood. |
| 39 | In 1999 he publicly berated Congress for failing to pass legislation preventing teenagers from buying guns, following the Columbine high school massacre. |
| 40 | Personally chose Lewis Milestone to direct the anti-war movie Pork Chop Hill (1959), because Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) had made a deep impression on him. |
| 41 | He was a lifelong opponent of nuclear weapons, and made On the Beach (1959) for this reason. |
| 42 | MGM wanted Peck to play Roger Thornhill in North by Northwest (1959), but the director Alfred Hitchcock thought Peck was too serious and cast Cary Grant instead. |
| 43 | Often stated how disappointed he was that many American viewers did not realize how anti-war The Guns of Navarone (1961) was. |
| 44 | In the early 1990s Peck considered writing his autobiography, however he decided against it when he realized he wasn't as good at writing as his friend David Niven. |
| 45 | One of his greatest heroes from childhood was President Abraham Lincoln. Peck was initially concerned about playing him in The Blue and the Gray (1982), since at 66 he was a decade older than Lincoln was when he was assassinated. Some 17 years later, when he was the director Rod Lurie 's first choice to play the role of a fictional U.S. President in The Contender (2000), he declined saying he was 'too damn old.'. |
| 46 | He was considered for Rock Hudson's role in Ice Station Zebra (1968). |
| 47 | By 1974, following a series of flops, Peck's career had declined to such an extent that he admitted in an interview that he was thinking of retiring from acting. Two years later however he made an enormous comeback with The Omen (1976). |
| 48 | Agreed to star in David and Bathsheba (1951) as a riposte to the Biblical epics of Cecil B. DeMille. |
| 49 | His mother died in May 1992 at the age of 97. |
| 50 | In December 2002 Peck visited his wife in hospital in Los Angeles after she underwent surgery to relieve pressure on two vertebrae. The sight of the veteran actor in hospital sparked more press rumors that he was seriously ill. |
| 51 | A physically powerful man, Peck was known to do a majority of his own fight scenes, rarely using body or stunt doubles. Robert Mitchum, his on-screen opponent in Cape Fear (1962), said that Peck once accidentally punched him for real during their final fight scene in the movie. He recalled feeling the impact of the punch for days afterwards and said, "I don't feel sorry for anyone dumb enough who picks a fight with him.". |
| 52 | In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 12. |
| 53 | His favorite drink was Guinness, which he drank every day. Eventually he had a tap installed in the bar at his house. |
| 54 | His favorite singers were Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson. He was also a big fan of Elton John. |
| 55 | Formed a solid friendship with Mary Badham, who played his daughter "Scout" in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). They remained in contact until his passing. According to Badham, she always called him "Atticus" and he always called her "Scout". |
| 56 | He had always wanted to act in a Shakespearean play, but by the time the opportunity presented itself in 1951 he decided it was too late to start. |
| 57 | Son of Gregory Pearl Peck and wife Bernice Mae Ayres. |
| 58 | Turned down Yves Montand's role in Let's Make Love (1960) because he didn't want to work with Marilyn Monroe. |
| 59 | When he was the President of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Science, Peck lobbied the organization's Board of Governors to make animated feature films eligible for nomination as Best Picture. It wasn't until 1991 that Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991) became the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture, although it did not win. |
| 60 | Only the Valiant (1951) was his least favorite film. He thought the western potboiler was a step backwards after starring in The Gunfighter (1950). |
| 61 | The financial failure of Cape Fear (1962) ended his company, Melville Productions. |
| 62 | In 1996, veteran character actor Richard Jaeckel, Peck's costar in The Gunfighter (1950), was diagnosed with cancer, and Jaeckel's wife had Alzheimer's disease. The Jaeckels had lost their Brentwood home, were over a million dollars in debt, leaving them basically homeless. His family tried unsuccessfully to enter him into Motion Picture and Television Country Home and Hospital. Once Peck lobbied for Jaeckel's admittance he was treated within three days. Jaeckel stayed in the hospital until his death in June 1997. |
| 63 | He is listed in the Cal Berkeley Alumni roster as a graduate of the Class of 1942 who studied as an English major and where he acted in plays at the Associated Students sponsored 'Little Theatre' on campus. Incidentally while under the watch of the University's Committee on Music and Drama led by Professor William Popper as chairman, the University's Department of Dramatic Arts was just being established towards the end of his student tenure in 1941. |
| 64 | After making Arabesque (1966), Peck withdrew from acting for three years in order to concentrate on various humanitarian causes, including the American Cancer Society. |
| 65 | He did not get along with director Elia Kazan while filming Gentleman's Agreement (1947). Kazan told the press he was very disappointed with Peck's performance and the two men never worked together again. |
| 66 | Campaigned for Harry S. Truman in the 1948 presidential election. |
| 67 | He was originally cast in the role played by Robert Taylor in Quo Vadis (1951), opposite Elizabeth Taylor. The film shot in Rome for approximately two weeks, under the direction of John Huston, until the studio shut down production after executives were dissatisfied with the footage. |
| 68 | His few attempts to play a villain were considered unsuccessful, perhaps because the public could not accept Peck as anything other than a man who ultimately did the right thing.. He was considered too young at 38 (the movie was filmed in 1954) to play Captain Ahab in Moby Dick (1956), especially since the character was described in Herman Melville's novel as an old man. Peck admitted he only agreed to play Nazi Dr Josef Mengele in The Boys from Brazil (1978) because he wanted to work with Sir Laurence Olivier. Although the film and his performance were savaged by the critics, Peck remained loyal to it. |
| 69 | He was a heavy drinker as a young actor in Hollywood. In 1949 he was hospitalized with heart spasms, and while filming David and Bathsheba (1951) he was hospitalized with a suspected heart attack. Though it turned out to be a palpitation brought on by his lifestyle and overwork, he began to drink less thereafter. However, he did not stop smoking for many more years. |
| 70 | In 1948, amid the anti-Communist hysteria sweeping the country during the McCarthy "Red Scare" era, he was called before a "fact-finding committee" set up by the California Legislature to ferret out alleged Communists and their sympathizers in the entertainment industry. Along with several other stars, Peck received his subpoena because of his association with a host of "liberal" organizations and causes. He gave the committee a list of every organization to which he had contributed money, along with their letterheads, and said that he made those contributions because they were legitimate organizations. He told the committee, "I am not now and never have been associated with any communist organization or supporters of communism. I am not a communist, never was a communist and I have no sympathy with communist activities". |
| 71 | He was given the role of Ambassador Robert Thorn in The Omen (1976) after Charlton Heston turned it down in order to make Midway (1976). |
| 72 | In his 80s his frail and thin appearance frequently sparked press rumors of his impending death, particularly when in 2001 he attended Jack Lemmon's funeral with his head bandaged from a recent fall. |
| 73 | As a board member of Handgun Control Inc. (along with Martin Sheen and Susan Sarandon), Peck was sometimes criticized for his friendship with Charlton Heston, a longtime advocate of gun ownership who served as President of the National Rifle Assocation (NRA) from 1998 to 2003. When anti-gun activist James Brady, who'd been grievously wounded during the assassination attempt on his boss, Ronald Reagan, asked him why, Peck replied, "We're colleagues rather than friends. We're civil to each other when we meet. I, of course, disagree vehemently with him on gun control.". |
| 74 | After Peck stormed off the set of The Big Country (1958), director William Wyler said of him: "I wouldn't direct Peck again for a million dollars, and you can quote me on that.". |
| 75 | Appeared on President Richard Nixon's infamous "enemies list" in 1972. |
| 76 | During the Vietnam War Peck was a vocal supporter of young men who wished to avoid the draft because of their moral convictions against the war, calling them "patriots" and "heroes" and saying that burning their draft cards was part of their civic duty. He produced the anti-war play and subsequent film, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972) using his own money, in order to provoke more opposition to the conflict. |
| 77 | In 1946 he met and befriended Gary Cooper, with whom he was often compared in terms of looks and acting style. |
| 78 | Advertised Chesterfield cigarettes. |
| 79 | He was an active supporter of AIDS fund raising. |
| 80 | He was a close friend of Jane Fonda, and frequently attended political rallies with her. |
| 81 | In 1987 he joined Burt Lancaster, Martin Sheen and Lloyd Bridges in narrating a TV commercial for People for the American Way, opposing the confirmation of President Ronald Reagan's nominee to the Supreme Court, ultra-conservative judge Robert Bork. Bork, who came under intense criticism in part because of his past vociferous opposition to civil rights laws, ultimately failed to be confirmed by the Senate. |
| 82 | He was a close friend of Michael Jackson for the last 25 years of his life, and often went horse riding with the singer at his Neverland Ranch. During the Jordie Chandler scandal in 1993, Peck wrote a letter defending Jackson. He also gave a glowing video tribute to Jackson at his 30th Anniversary concert in New York in 2001. |
| 83 | In 1999 he supported the decision to give Elia Kazan an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement, saying he believed that a man's work should be separate from his life. |
| 84 | Turned down Gary Cooper's Oscar-winning role as Marshal Will Kane in High Noon (1952) because he felt the story was too similar to his The Gunfighter (1950). When the film proved to be a huge success Peck admitted he had made a mistake, though he said he didn't believe he could have played the character as well as Cooper. |
| 85 | Broke his ankle in three places in a fall from a horse while filming Yellow Sky (1948). |
| 86 | In 1947, at the beginning of the anti-communist investigations in Hollywood, Peck signed a letter deploring the witch hunts despite being warned his signature could hurt his career. |
| 87 | He was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War, while remaining supportive of his son who was serving there. |
| 88 | In the 1950s, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum near Tucson, AZ, named one of their male javalinas "Gregory Peckory" in his honor; incidentally, their female was named "Olivia de Javalina" to honor actress Olivia de Havilland. |
| 89 | He had always wanted to do a Walt Disney movie. |
| 90 | Mourners for the public service held after his burial held huge black-and-white portraits of Peck as they approached the Cathedral, designed by artist/sculptor Robert Graham, husband of Anjelica Huston. Church officials estimated that almost 3,000 people attended. Seats were reserved for Peck's friends, a sizable number of whom were celebrities - they were instructed to whisper the secret password "Atticus" to the red-coated ushers who escorted them to the reserved section - Harry Belafonte, Anjelica Huston, Michael York, Louise Fletcher, Tony Danza, Piper Laurie, Harrison Ford, Calista Flockhart. Michael Jackson, wearing a red jacket, caused a stir when he arrived 20 minutes late. Decked out in a bright blue suit and clutching a program with Peck's picture on it was his first wife Greta, looking hale and hearty at 92. Roger Mahony, Archbishop of Los Angeles, presided over the service. The program included bible readings by Peck's children Carey, Cecilia and Tony. Mahoney said, "He lived his life authentically, as God called and willed him and placed him in his room, with gifts and talents." Brock Peters, who played the black man defended by Peck's character Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), delivered the eulogy. The film spawned a close friendship between the two stars that lasted more than 40 years. "In art there is compassion," said Peters, "in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love. Gregory Peck gave us these attributes in full measure." The crowd visibly warmed to a videotape performance of Peck featuring a lecture he gave several years before. He said he hoped to be remembered first as a good husband, father and grandfather. Then, with quiet strength and unforgettable presence, he added: "I'd like to be thought of as a good storyteller". |
| 91 | 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." |
| 92 | Once owned a thoroughbred named "Different Class," who was the favorite in the 1968 Grand National Steeplechase in the UK - but finished 3rd. |
| 93 | Cited that his favorite leading ladies were Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, and Ava Gardner. |
| 94 | 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. |
| 95 | Was Warner Bros. original choice to play Grandpa Joe in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). He was offered the role and seriously considered it but passed away before he could give them an answer. |
| 96 | He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1998 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C. |
| 97 | Father-in-law of Daniel Voll. |
| 98 | Studied acting with Michael Chekhov, who later played a supporting role in Peck's Spellbound (1945). |
| 99 | In the spring of 1939, Peck skipped graduation at the University of California at Berkeley and, with $160 and a letter of introduction in his pocket, went by train to New York, traveling coach, to embark on his acting career. |
| 100 | He and The Big Country (1958) co-star Charlton Heston both played the infamous Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele: Peck in The Boys from Brazil (1978), Heston in My Father, Rua Alguem 5555 (2003). |
| 101 | In late November of 2005, thieves stole Peck's "Hollywood Walk of Fame" star using a cement saw to cut the bronze-and-terrazzo marker out of the sidewalk. In a simple ceremony, a new star honoring the late actor was unveiled on December 1st to replace the stolen one. Hollywood's honorary mayor Johnny Grant lifted a covering and announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, we proudly welcome back to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Gregory Peck." Peck's star was the fourth to be stolen since the Walk of Fame was inaugurated. James Stewart's and Kirk Douglas' stars disappeared some years ago after being removed for construction and were later recovered by police in the nearby city of South Gate. Gene Autry's star also vanished during a construction project. A call saying it had been found in Iowa proved to be a false alarm. |
| 102 | Named the #12 greatest actor on The 50 Greatest Screen Legends list by the American Film Institute |
| 103 | He was voted the 27th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine. |
| 104 | Attended San Diego High School. |
| 105 | He was voted the 58th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly. |
| 106 | While studying at UC Berkeley, Peck was a houseboy for the school's chapter of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority. |
| 107 | According to at least one biography, he took his role in The Omen (1976) at a huge cut in salary (a mere $250,000) but was guaranteed 10% of the film's box office take. It went on to gross more than $60 million in the U.S. alone, and became the film for which he earned the most money in his career. |
| 108 | When he arrived in Italy to shoot Roman Holiday (1953), Gregory was privately depressed about his recent separation and imminent divorce from his first wife, Greta. However, during the shoot, he met and fell in love with a French woman named Veronique Passani After his divorce, he married Passani and they remained together for the rest of his life. So, in a way, he lived out his own "movie romance". |
| 109 | Son, Stephen did a tour in Vietnam with the Marine Corps. Peck was proud of his son's military service even though he disagreed with the war itself. |
| 110 | Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1979. |
| 111 | A back injury incurred in college kept him out of the services in World War II. |
| 112 | Was the first native Californian to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. |
| 113 | Brock Peters delivered his eulogy on the day of his funeral and burial, June 16, 2003. In To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Peters played Tom Robinson, the black man accused of raping a white girl that Atticus Finch (Peck's character) defended in court. |
| 114 | During his lean salad days, he supported himself as a Radio City Music Hall tour guide and as a catalog model for Montgomery Ward. |
| 115 | Along with Dorothy McGuire, Mel Ferrer and David O. Selznick, he co-founded the La Jolla Playhouse, located in his hometown, and produced many of the classics there. Due to film commitments, he could not return to Broadway but whet his appetite for live theater on occasion at the Playhouse, keeping it firmly established with a strong, reputable name over the years. |
| 116 | His character from To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Atticus Finch, was voted the greatest screen hero of all time by the American Film Institute in May 2003, only two weeks before his death (beating out Indiana Jones, who was placed second, and James Bond who came third). |
| 117 | Marched with Martin Luther King. |
| 118 | Seriously considered challenging then California Governor Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign in 1970 but decided against it at the last minute despite state and national pressure from the Democrat Party of California and The Democratic National Committee. |
| 119 | His ancestry included Irish, English, some German, and distant Welsh. His paternal grandparents were Samuel Peck and Catherine Ashe, and his maternal grandparents were John Daggett Ayers and Katherine Elizabeth Forse. His paternal grandmother was an immigrant from County Kerry, Ireland. She was a relative of Thomas Ashe, an Irish patriot who fought in the Easter Rising in 1916 and died on hunger strike the following year. Many of Gregory's other ancestors were from families that had lived in New England since the 1600s. |
| 120 | Chosen by producer Darryl F. Zanuck for the epic film David and Bathsheba (1951) because Zanuck thought Peck had a "biblical face". |
| 121 | Was president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences from 1967-1970. He made the decision to postpone the 1968 Oscar ceremony after Martin Luther King's assassination. |
| 122 | Honorary chair, Los Angeles Library Foundation. [1995] |
| 123 | Was in the original version of Cape Fear (1962) in 1962, playing Sam Bowden. He was later brought back for a part in another version of Cape Fear (1991), playing Max Cady's attorney. |
| 124 | He took in former co-star Ava Gardner's housekeeper and dog after her death in 1990. |
| 125 | Stating he was worried about the 600,000 jobs hanging on the survival of the Chrysler Corporation, he volunteered to become an unpaid TV pitchman for the company in 1980. |
| 126 | (1967-1969) Chairman, American Film Institute. He was the first Chairman of the AFI. |
| 127 | (1964-1966) Charter Member, National Council on the Arts. |
| 128 | National Chairman, American Cancer Society. [1966] |
| 129 | (1968-1974) Charter Member, National Council on the Arts. |
| 130 | Recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom, nation's highest civilian award, awarded by Lyndon Johnson. [1969] |
| 131 | Chairman, Motion Picture & Television Relief Fund. [1971] |
| 132 | Oldest son, Jon, committed suicide by gunshot. [1975] |
| 133 | Children with Veronique Peck: Tony Peck (b. 1956) and Cecilia Peck (b. 1958). |
| 134 | Children, with Greta Kukkonen: Jonathan Peck (b. 1944 - d. 1975), Stephen Peck (b. 1946) and Carey Paul Peck (b. 1949). |
| 135 | Of his own movies, To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) is Peck's favourite. |
| 136 | U.C. Berkeley graduate (BA '39), oarsman on Cal's JV crew. |
| 137 | His earliest movie memory is of being so scared by The Phantom of the Opera (1925) at age 9 that his grandmother allowed him to sleep in the bed with her that night. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moby Dick | 1998 | TV Mini-Series | Father Mapple |
| The Portrait | 1993 | TV Movie | Gardner Church |
| Cape Fear | 1991 | Lee Heller | |
| Other People's Money | 1991 | Andrew Jorgenson | |
| The Will Rogers Follies | 1991 | TV Movie | Mr. Ziegfeld (voice) |
| Old Gringo | 1989 | Bitter | |
| Amazing Grace and Chuck | 1987 | President | |
| The Scarlet and the Black | 1983 | TV Movie | Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty |
| The Blue and the Gray | 1982 | TV Mini-Series | Abraham Lincoln |
| The Sea Wolves | 1980 | Colonel Lewis Pugh | |
| The Boys from Brazil | 1978 | Dr. Josef Mengele | |
| MacArthur | 1977 | Gen. Douglas MacArthur | |
| The Omen | 1976 | Robert Thorn | |
| Billy Two Hats | 1974 | Arch Deans | |
| Shoot Out | 1971 | Clay Lomax | |
| I Walk the Line | 1970 | Sheriff Tawes | |
| Marooned | 1969 | Charles Keith | |
| The Chairman | 1969 | John Hathaway | |
| Mackenna's Gold | 1969 | Sheriff Mackenna | |
| The Stalking Moon | 1968 | Sam Varner | |
| Arabesque | 1966 | Prof. David Pollock | |
| Mirage | 1965 | David Stillwell | |
| Behold a Pale Horse | 1964 | Manuel Artiguez | |
| Captain Newman, M.D. | 1963 | Capt. Josiah J. Newman, MD | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Atticus Finch | |
| How the West Was Won | 1962 | Cleve Van Valen | |
| Cape Fear | 1962 | Sam Bowden | |
| The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | Mallory | |
| On the Beach | 1959 | Cmdr. Dwight Lionel Towers | |
| Beloved Infidel | 1959 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| Pork Chop Hill | 1959 | Lt. Joe Clemons | |
| The Big Country | 1958 | James McKay | |
| The Bravados | 1958 | Jim Douglass | |
| Designing Woman | 1957 | Mike Hagen | |
| Moby Dick | 1956 | Captain Ahab | |
| The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | 1956 | Tom Rath | |
| The Purple Plain | 1954 | Squadron Leader Bill Forrester | |
| Night People | 1954 | Col. Steve Van Dyke | |
| Man with a Million | 1954 | Henry Adams | |
| Boum sur Paris | 1953 | Gregory Peck | |
| Roman Holiday | 1953 | Joe Bradley | |
| The Snows of Kilimanjaro | 1952 | Harry Street | |
| The World in His Arms | 1952 | Capt. Jonathan Clark | |
| David and Bathsheba | 1951 | King David | |
| Only the Valiant | 1951 | Capt. Richard Lance | |
| Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | 1951 | Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N | |
| The Gunfighter | 1950 | Jimmy Ringo | |
| Twelve O'Clock High | 1949 | General Savage | |
| The Great Sinner | 1949 | Fedja | |
| Yellow Sky | 1948 | James 'Stretch' Dawson | |
| The Paradine Case | 1947 | Anthony Keane | |
| Gentleman's Agreement | 1947 | Philip Schuyler Green | |
| The Macomber Affair | 1947 | Robert Wilson | |
| Duel in the Sun | 1946 | Lewton 'Lewt' McCanles | |
| The Yearling | 1946 | Penny Baxter | |
| Spellbound | 1945 | John Ballantyne | |
| The Valley of Decision | 1945 | Paul Scott | |
| The Keys of the Kingdom | 1944 | Father Francis Chisholm | |
| Days of Glory | 1944 | Vladimir |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Portrait | 1993 | TV Movie executive producer | |
| The 57th Annual Academy Awards | 1985 | TV Special documentary producer | |
| The Dove | 1974 | producer | |
| The Trial of the Catonsville Nine | 1972 | producer | |
| Behold a Pale Horse | 1964 | producer - uncredited | |
| Captain Newman, M.D. | 1963 | producer - uncredited | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | producer - uncredited | |
| Pork Chop Hill | 1959 | executive producer - uncredited | |
| The Big Country | 1958 | producer | |
| The Macomber Affair | 1947 | co-producer - uncredited |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | 1956 | performer: "I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech" 1908 - uncredited | |
| Man with a Million | 1954 | "Tempus adest floridum", uncredited / performer: "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" - uncredited | |
| Duel in the Sun | 1946 | performer: "I've Been Working on the Railroad" - uncredited | |
| The Valley of Decision | 1945 | "Pop! Goes the Weasel", uncredited |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Masters | 1999 | TV Series documentary archive source - 1 episode |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omaggio a Roma | 2009 | Short grateful thanks | |
| Dreaming in Black and White | 2002 | special thanks | |
| The Making of 'Cape Fear' | 2001/I | Video documentary special thanks |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Film '72 | 1989 | TV Series | Himself |
| Crossing Borders: The Journey of Carlos Fuentes | 1989 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The 15th Annual People's Choice Awards | 1989 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Gregory Peck | 1989 | TV Special | Himself - Guest of Honor |
| Moving Image Salutes Sidney Poitier | 1989 | TV Movie | Himself |
| 5th Annual TV Academy Hall of Fame | 1989 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Princess Grace Foundation Special Gala Tribute to Cary Grant | 1988 | TV Movie | Himself |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon | 1988 | TV Special documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| The 60th Annual Academy Awards | 1988 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay |
| Gregory Peck: His Own Man | 1988 | Documentary | Himself |
| 99th Tournament of Roses Parade | 1988 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Grammy Lifetime Achievment Award Show | 1987 | TV Movie | Himself |
| We the People 200: The Constitutional Gala | 1987 | TV Movie | Himself - Performer |
| Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood | 1987 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Liberty Weekend | 1986 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Billy Wilder | 1986 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan | 1985 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Annual Friars Club Tribute Presents a Salute to Gene Kelly | 1985 | TV Movie | Himself |
| An American Portrait | 1985 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Host |
| The Annual American Technion Society's Albert Einstein Award | 1985 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Olympic Gala | 1984 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Guest |
| Gala Opening of the American Ballet Theater | 1984 | TV Movie | Himself |
| James Bond: The First 21 Years | 1983 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Welcome to Los Angeles: A Party for Julio Iglesias | 1983 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The 54th Annual Academy Awards | 1982 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Presenter: Hersholt Award |
| Night of 100 Stars | 1982 | TV Special | Himself |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Fred Astaire | 1981 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| The 51st Annual Academy Awards | 1979 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Presenter: Honorary Award to the Museum of Modern Art, Dept. of Film |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock | 1979 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The 36th Annual Golden Globes Awards | 1979 | TV Special | Himself - Nominee & Presenter |
| George Burns' 100th Birthday Party | 1979 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Rockette: A Holiday Tribute to Radio City Music Hall | 1978 | TV Special | Himself - Host |
| Hollywood's Diamond Jubilee | 1978 | TV Special | Himself - Interviewee |
| The Mike Douglas Show | 1974-1978 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1976-1978 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Good Morning America | 1978 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The 15th Annual Publicists Guild Awards | 1978 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| A Tribute to Mr. Television Milton Berle | 1978 | TV Special | Himself |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda | 1978 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Today | 1977 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Bette Davis | 1977 | TV Special documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| The 3rd Annual People's Choice Awards | 1977 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| NBC: The First Fifty Years - A Closer Look | 1976 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| V.I.P.-Schaukel | 1972-1976 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Dinah! | 1976 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to William Wyler | 1976 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The 46th Annual Academy Awards | 1974 | TV Special | Himself - Co-Presenter: Best Actor in a Leading Role |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to John Ford | 1973 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Film Night | 1972 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Pearl Bailey Show | 1971 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The 43rd Annual Academy Awards | 1971 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award |
| The 42nd Annual Academy Awards | 1970 | TV Special | Himself |
| The American National Theater of Arts Academy Honors Laurence Olivier | 1970 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Hollywood: The Selznick Years | 1969 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Jack Benny's New Look | 1969 | TV Special | Himself |
| The 41st Annual Academy Awards | 1969 | TV Special | Himself |
| The 22nd Annual Tony Awards | 1968 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| The 40th Annual Academy Awards | 1968 | TV Special | Himself - Academy President / Hersholt Award Recipient |
| The Joey Bishop Show | 1967 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Africa | 1967 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| The 39th Annual Academy Awards | 1967 | TV Special | Himself - Audience Member |
| The 38th Annual Academy Awards | 1966 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film |
| Salute to Stan Laurel | 1965 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| The 37th Annual Academy Awards | 1965 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: Best Picture |
| John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums | 1965 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The 36th Annual Academy Awards | 1964 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: Best Actress in a Leading Role |
| The 35th Annual Academy Awards | 1963 | TV Special | Himself - Winner |
| The 20th Annual Golden Globes Awards | 1963 | TV Special | Himself - Winner: Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama |
| The 34th Annual Academy Awards | 1962 | TV Special | Himself - Audience Member |
| Here's Hollywood | 1961 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 31st Annual Academy Awards | 1959 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| The Hidden World | 1958 | Documentary | Narrator |
| The All-Star Christmas Show | 1958 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1956-1958 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 30th Annual Academy Awards | 1958 | TV Special | Himself - Co-Presenter: Art Direction-Set Decoration Awards |
| Gregory Peck kävi Suomessa | 1953 | Short | Himself |
| Pictura | 1951 | Documentary | Narrator: Carpaccio episode (voice) |
| Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards | 1951 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Audrey Hepburn: Ein Star auf der Suche nach sich selbst | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains | 2003 | TV Special documentary | Atticus Finch |
| From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff | 2002 | Documentary | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration | 2001 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| The Making of 'Cape Fear' | 2001/I | Video documentary | Himself |
| AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies | 2001 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Hollywood Greats | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Making of 'Cape Fear' | 2001/II | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Memories of Navarone | 2000 | Video documentary short | Himself - Mallory |
| The Art of Norton Simon | 1999 | Documentary short | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith | 1999 | Documentary | Narrator |
| American Masters | 1986-1999 | TV Series documentary | Himself / Himself - Narrator |
| The 56th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1999 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Winner |
| Fearful Symmetry | 1998 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Tony Bennett Live by Request: An All-Star Tribute | 1998 | TV Special | Himself |
| The 70th Annual Academy Awards | 1998 | TV Special | Himself - Past Winner (uncredited) |
| 4th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | 1998 | TV Special | Himself |
| Thar She Blows: The Making of 'Moby Dick' | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1997 | TV Special | Himself |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Martin Scorsese | 1997 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Howard Stern | 1997 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman | 1996 | TV Movie documentary | |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Clint Eastwood | 1996 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Steven Spielberg | 1996 | TV Special documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Sinatra: 80 Years My Way | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Biography | 1995 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick | 1995 | Documentary | Himself |
| A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The 67th Annual Academy Awards | 1995 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: 'Quiz Show' Film Clip |
| La nuit des Césars | 1995 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Winner: César d'honneur |
| The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1995 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| The Annual American Friends Hebrew University Scopus Awards Honoring Ted Turner | 1995 | TV Special | Himself |
| L'Hidato Shel Adolf Eichmann | 1994 | Documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| Baseball | 1994 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Various / Himself |
| The 51st Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1994 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| Legend to Legend Night: A Celebrity Cavalcade | 1993 | TV Special | Himself |
| The 5th Annual Legacy Awards | 1993 | TV Special | Himself |
| Audrey Hepburn Remembered | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The 65th Annual Academy Awards | 1993 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: Hersholt Award to the late Audrey Hepburn |
| The 50th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1993 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: Cecil B. DeMille Award |
| Isaac Stern: A Life - A Biography in Music | 1993 | TV Movie | Himself - Narrator |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Sidney Poitier | 1992 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1992 | TV Special | Himself |
| Danny Kaye International Children Award for Unicef | 1992 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Film Society of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Gregory Peck | 1992 | TV Movie | Himself - Honoree |
| Crazy About the Movies: Ava Gardner | 1992 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1991 | TV Special | Himself - Honoree |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Kirk Douglas | 1991 | TV Special documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| The 63rd Annual Academy Awards | 1991 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: Honorary Award to Sophia Loren |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to David Lean | 1990 | TV Special | Himself |
| Island of Whales | 1990 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Sinatra 75: The Best Is Yet to Come | 1990 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Reflections on the Silver Screen | 1990 | TV Series | Himself |
| Gran premio internazionale della TV | 1990 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 62nd Annual Academy Awards | 1990 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: Best Actress in a Leading Role |
| Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration | 1990 | TV Special | Himself |
| 7th Annual American Cinema Awards | 1990 | TV Special | Himself - Honoree |
| The 47th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1990 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: Cecil B. DeMille Award |
| Mahler's Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection' at Masada | 1989 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Host |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1989 | TV Special | Himself |
| Lou Rawls Parade of Stars | 1989 | TV Series | Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs | 2017 | Documentary | |
| The Fabulous Allan Carr | 2017 | Documentary | Himself |
| National Endowment for the Arts: United States of Arts | 2017 | TV Series documentary short | Himself |
| Damien | 2016 | TV Series | Robert Thorn |
| Personne | 2016 | Short | |
| Trumbo | 2015 | Joe Bradley (uncredited) | |
| Inside Edition | 2014-2015 | TV Series documentary | Atticus Finch |
| Welcome to the Basement | 2012-2015 | TV Series | Atticus Finch / Himself / Joe Bradley |
| Wogan: The Best Of | 2015 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Donne nel mito: Sophia racconta la Loren | 2014 | Documentary short | Himself |
| And the Oscar Goes To... | 2014 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Piaggio Vespa Commercial | 2014 | TV Short | |
| Close Up | 2012 | Documentary | Himself |
| A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss | 2010 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself / Robert Thorn |
| The Naked Archaeologist | 2005-2010 | TV Series documentary | King David |
| Hollywood contra Franco | 2008 | Documentary | Harry Street / Manuel Artiguez |
| Strictly Courtroom | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Atticus Finch Anthony Keane Sam Bowden (uncredited) |
| Spisok korabley | 2008 | Documentary | |
| World Film Report | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
| Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia | 2007 | TV Short documentary | Himself |
| Cannes, 60 ans d'histoires | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Premio Donostia a Matt Dillon | 2006 | TV Special | Himself |
| Premio Donostia a Max Von Sydow | 2006 | TV Special | Himself |
| Infrarouge | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Curse of 'The Omen' | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Cinema mil | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
| Premio Donostia a Willem Dafoe | 2005 | TV Special | Himself |
| Private Screenings | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
| Cineastas contra magnates | 2005 | Documentary | Harry Street |
| Sendung ohne Namen | 2003-2004 | TV Series documentary | Captain Ahab |
| Unsere Besten | 2004 | TV Series | Ahab |
| Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust | 2004 | Documentary | |
| The 76th Annual Academy Awards | 2004 | TV Special | Himself (Memorial Tribute) |
| Starring - Taina Elg | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| La guerra en el cine | 2003 | Video documentary short | General Savage |
| Remembering 'Roman Holiday' | 2002 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Restoring Roman Holiday | 2002 | Video documentary short | |
| Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Robert Thorn |
| The Audrey Hepburn Story | 2000 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Biography | 1997-1998 | TV Series documentary | |
| American Masters | 1998 | TV Series documentary | |
| The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg | 1998 | Documentary | Philip Schuyler Green (uncredited) |
| 20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Jimmy Ringo |
| The Universal Story | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Passage à l'acte | 1993 | Short | Atticus Finch |
| Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey | 1993 | Documentary | John Ballantyne (uncredited) |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1992 | TV Series | Himself |
| Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star | 1991 | Documentary | Sam Bowden (uncredited) |
| La hora bruja | 1985 | ||
| Ingrid | 1984 | Documentary | John Ballantyne (uncredited) |
| Margret Dünser, auf der Suche nach den Besonderen | 1981 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Ken Murray Shooting Stars | 1979 | Documentary | Himself |
| All This and World War II | 1976 | Documentary | Himself |
| America at the Movies | 1976 | Documentary | Jimmy Ringo |
| Hustle | 1975 | Captain Ahab (uncredited) | |
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1971 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Extraordinary Seaman | 1969 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| Pähkähullu Suomi | 1967 | Himself | |
| Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase | 1965 | Documentary short | |
| The Love Goddesses | 1965 | Documentary | Himself |
| Lykke og krone | 1962 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| MGM Parade | 1956 | TV Series | |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1954 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Art Director | 1949 | Documentary short | Himself / Philip Schuyler Green (uncredited) |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Spirit of Angelus Award | Angelus Awards Student Film Festival | Posthumously. | |
| 2003 | Career David | David di Donatello Awards | ||
| 1999 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture | Moby Dick (1998) |
| 1998 | Lifetime Achievement Award | German Film Awards | ||
| 1996 | Special Prize for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema | Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | ||
| 1995 | Honorary César | César Awards, France | ||
| 1993 | Honorary Golden Berlin Bear | Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| 1992 | Gala Tribute | Film Society of Lincoln Center | ||
| 1990 | Board of the Governors Award | American Society of Cinematographers, USA | ||
| 1989 | Life Achievement Award | American Film Institute, USA | ||
| 1989 | Special Award | Cannes Film Festival | ||
| 1986 | Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award | San Sebastián International Film Festival | ||
| 1983 | Career Achievement Award | National Board of Review, USA | ||
| 1983 | Award of Excellence | Banff Television Festival | ||
| 1971 | Life Achievement Award | Screen Actors Guild Awards | ||
| 1969 | Cecil B. DeMille Award | Golden Globes, USA | ||
| 1969 | Golden Apple | Golden Apple Awards | Male Star of the Year | |
| 1968 | Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | Academy Awards, USA | ||
| 1967 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Special | Actor and industry spokesman whose fine work before the cameras and in a host of worthwhile ... More |
| 1963 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actor in a Leading Role | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) |
| 1963 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) |
| 1963 | David | David di Donatello Awards | Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero) | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) |
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Motion Picture | On 8 February 1960. At 6100 Hollywood Blvd. |
| 1955 | Henrietta Award | Golden Globes, USA | World Film Favorite - Male | |
| 1953 | Bambi | Bambi Awards | Best Actor - International | David and Bathsheba (1951) |
| 1951 | Henrietta Award | Golden Globes, USA | World Film Favorite - Male | |
| 1947 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Motion Picture Actor | The Yearling (1946) |
| 1947 | Golden Apple | Golden Apple Awards | Most Cooperative Actor | |
| 1945 | Golden Apple | Golden Apple Awards | Most Cooperative Actor |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | Moby Dick (1998) |
| 1979 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama | The Boys from Brazil (1978) |
| 1978 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama | MacArthur (1977) |
| 1970 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Male Star | 12th place. |
| 1967 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Action Performance | Arabesque (1966) |
| 1966 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Male Star | 5th place. |
| 1965 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Male Star | 14th place. |
| 1964 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Male Star | 5th place. |
| 1964 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama | Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) |
| 1964 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Foreign Actor | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) |
| 1960 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Male Star | 13th place. |
| 1954 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Foreign Actor | Roman Holiday (1953) |
| 1954 | Bambi | Bambi Awards | Best Actor - International | Roman Holiday (1953) |
| 1952 | Gold Medal | Picturegoer Awards | Best Actor | David and Bathsheba (1951) |
| 1947 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actor in a Leading Role | The Yearling (1946) |
| 1946 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actor in a Leading Role | The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) |
2nd Place Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Male Dramatic Performance | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) |
3rd Place Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Male Star | |
| 1962 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Male Dramatic Performance | The Guns of Navarone (1961) |
| 1959 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Action Performance | The Bravados (1958) |
Known for movies
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
as Atticus Finch
Roman Holiday (1953)
as Joe Bradley
The Omen (1976)
as Robert Thorn
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
as Mallory