Gregory M Peck

Gregory Peck

• Birth Name Eldred Gregory Peck
• Nickname Father Peck
  Greg
  
• Biography Peck was born in La Jolla, California. His father was a druggist in San Diego. His parents divorced when he was five years old. An only child, he was sent to live with his grandmother. He never felt h...
  
• Write biography Tony Fontana <[email protected]>
  
• Spouse Veronique Passani (31 December 1955 - 12 June 2003) (his death); 2 children
  Greta Kukkonen (5 October 1942 - 30 December 1955) (divorced); 3 children
  
• Trade Mark Almost always played courageous, nobly heroic good guys who sawinjustice and fought it.
  
• Trivia His earliest movie memory is of being so scared byThe Phantom of the Opera (1925) at age 9 that his grandmotherallowed him to sleep in the bed with her that night.
  U.C. Berkeley graduate (BA '39), oarsman on Cal's JV crew.
  Of his own movies, To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) is Peck'sfavourite.
  Children, with Kukkonen, Jonathan (b. 1944 - d. 1975),Stephen Peck (IV) (b. 1945), Carey Paul Peck (b. 1949).
  Children with Veronique Passani: Tony Peck (I) (b. 1956)and Cecilia Peck (b. 1958).
  (1975) Oldest son, Jon, committed suicide by gunshot.
  
• Other Work "Rockette: A Holiday Tribute to the Radio City Music Hall" (14 December1978), as Host
  (1 January 1988) Grand Marshal, Tournament of Roses parade
  Album: Narrated the 1949 Decca recording "Lullaby of Christmas".
  Print ads Chesterfield cigarettes (1947, 1948 & 1950)
  Stage: Appeared in "The Will Rogers Follies" on Broadway (1991). Musical.
  Stage: Appeared (as "Andrew Tadlock") in "Sons and Soldiers" on Broadway (1943). Drama. Written by Irwin Shaw. Scenic Design by Norman Bel Geddes. Directed by Max Reinhardt. Morosco Theatre: 4 May 194...
  
• Biography print Gary Fishgall. _Gregory Peck: A Biography._ New York: Scribner, 2002.ISBN 068485290X
  Gerard Molyneaux. _Gregory Peck: A Bio-Bibliography._ Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995.ISBN 031328668X
  Lynn Haney. _Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life._ New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004.ISBN 0786714735
  M. Freedland. _Gregory Peck._
  John Griggs. _The Films of Gregory Peck._ Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1984.
  
• Personal quotes [when he discovered that his second wife, French journalistVeronique Passani, had passed up an opportunity to interviewAlbert Schweitzer at a lunch hosted by Jean-Paul Sartrein order to go out on a da...
  [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'dlearned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers andchild...
  They say the bad guys are more interesting to play but there is more toit than that - playing the good guys is more challenging because it'sharder to make them interesting.
  I just do things I really enjoy. I enjoy acting. When I'm driving to thestudio, I sing in the car. I love my work and my wife and my kids andmy friends. And I think, "You're a lucky man, Gregory Peck,...
  Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a secondGary Cooper (I). Actually, he is the first Gregory Peck.
  [on gay rights] It just seems silly to me that something so right andsimple has to be fought for at all.
  
• Portrayed in The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000) (TV)
  Slick Hare (1947)
  
• Salary The Purple Plain (1954): $250,000.00
  The Million Pound Note (1954): $250,000.00
  Only the Valiant (1951): $60,000.00
  Days of Glory (1944): $10,000.00
  
• Biographical movie A Conversation with Gregory Peck (1999)
  The American Film Institute Salute to Gregory Peck (1989) (TV)
  Gregory Peck and Henry King (2003) (TV)
  
• Filmography

  Cineastas contra magnates (2005) Biography

  Roman Holiday (1953) Romance

  Spellbound (1945) Mystery

  The Paradine Case (1947) Crime

  To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Mystery

  Cannes, 60 ans d'histoires (2007) (TV) Documentary

  Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo (2008) (TV) Documentary

  Strictly Courtroom (2008) (TV) Documentary

  The Million Pound Note (1954) Romance

  "Shi jie dian ying zhi lv" (2002) {Te bie jie mu: Yong yuan de 'Luo ma jia ri' (#7.8)}