Want to know the best Gregory Peck movies? How about the worst Gregory Peck movies? Curious about Gregory Peck’s box office grosses or which Gregory Peck movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Gregory Peck movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
A couple of years ago, I decided to watch all the movies that had won Academy Awards® for the major categories. As I worked my way through the Oscar® winners from the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, I started to notice that many of these movies starred Gregory Peck. Movies like Roman Holiday (Audrey Hepburn Best Actress), Twelve O’Clock High (Dean Jagger Best Supporting Actor), The Big Country (Burl Ives Best Supporting Actor), A Gentleman’s Agreement (Best Picture of the Year and Elia Kazan Best Director), and of course To Kill A Mockingbird (Gregory Peck Best Actor). He also was the star in the following Academy Award® Best Picture nominated movies: 1945 Spellbound, 1946 The Yearling, 1949 Twelve O’Clock High, 1953 Roman Holiday, 1961 The Guns of Navarone , and two movies in 1962 How the West Was Won and To Kill A Mockingbird. After seeing all of this great movies I came to the conclusion that Gregory Peck is one of the most under appreciated actors.
His IMDb page shows 58 acting credits from 1944-1998. This page will rank 53 Gregory Peck movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters were not included in the rankings.
Gregory Peck Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Gregory Peck Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Gregory Peck movies by co-stars of his movies.
- Sort Gregory Peck movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort Gregory Peck movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Gregory Peck movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Gregory Peck movie received.
- Sort Gregory Peck movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
- Use the search and sort buttons to make this a very interactive table. Blue link of title includes a trailer for that movie.
Flora Breen Robison’s Possibly Interesting Facts About Gregory Peck.
1. Gregory Peck was born Eldred Gregory Peck. His mother named him Gregory after his father and picked Eldred out of a phone book. He only used the name at school. Everyone called him Greg.
2. Gregory Peck was nominated 5 times for an Oscar® and 5 times for a Golden Globe® for his movie roles. For his role as Atticus Finch in 1963’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Peck won his only Oscar® and only Golden Globe®.
3. While attending the University of California-Berkeley, Peck broke discs in his back while stretching in dance class…though the press would later called it a rowing accident to sound more manly. That kept him out of WWII.
4. Gregory Peck was the first Hollywood actor to have a non-exclusive contract with a studio. Because he was 4-F from the war and several actors were off fighting, Peck was in a position to drive hard bargains. He made movies with every major and minor studio during the studio system.
5. Gregory Peck broke his ankle during the filming of 1948’s Yellow Sky when his horse bolted and fell on him. In his haste to return to filming as quickly as possible, the break never healed properly he limped forever afterwards. When watching the film(which was not filmed in sequence)-you can see scenes where Peck limps and doesn’t limp with no logic to the story.
6. When Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall were filming 1957’s Designing Woman, Bacall’s husband Humphrey Bogart passed away. It was Gregory Peck who escorted Bacall to her husband’s funeral.
7. Gregory Peck was married two times in his life. His first marriage was to Greta Kukkonen from 1942-1955. The marriage produced three sons. His second marriage was to Veronique Passani from 1955 until Peck’s death. That marriage produced a son and a daughter. Peck’s daughter Cecilia, played his daughter in the TV movie The Portrait. In the film Cecilia plays an artist determined to paint her parents’ portrait before they die. Peck was reunited with Lauren Bacall as his co-star 36 years after making Designing Woman in 1957.
8. Gregory Peck served many terms on many Board of Directors of several Hollywood associations. These include: He was the first president of the American Film Institute. He was president of the Academy of Motion Pictures from 1967-1970. When Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1967 Peck had the Oscars® postponed.
9. When longtime friend Ava Gardner passed away in 1990. Gregory Peck took in Ava Gardner’s housekeeper and cat.
10. Check out Gregory Peck’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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MORNIN STEVE
1 The ticket sales for Gregory Peck movies are among the top 10 highest of all time for males and indeed Bruce’s list of 100 Top Stars places Greg at no 10 among men for adjusted domestic grosses. Greg was a star from virtually his first movie and remained one for at least the next 35 years and like the Duke he made a large number of movies including many classics so that it again occurred to me you would be spoilt for choice in selecting a Top 30 and I was therefore most curious to know how the selections would pan out.
2 Actually I feel that your chart does a good job in spreading entries across Greg’s entire career and my notes suggest that 6 came from the 1940s 10 from the 1950s and 10 from the 1960s with the other amazingly 4 reaching out into the 1970s /1990s . Rightly in my view Mockingbird is No 1 and the only surprise to me is the omission of Valley of Decision and when I was a boy my aunts used to rave over the young Greg in that movie.
3 I was also reminded by your fine poster for Duel in the Sun of a long-ago summer night when I stood in a queue for that movie next to a poster of a cowboy standing with a gun and two girls behind me in the queue became quite excited when they realised the cowboy was Gregory Peck ! In those days the young girls used to scream out swoons when certain actors first appeared on the screen in a movie or even in a trailer and I remember that the loudest swoons were usually for the likes of Curtis, Hudson, Brando, Elvis – and Greg. As the famed movie historian David Shipman ** said Greg and Marlon squared the circle in that they were STARS of the first rank and their “acting ability was considered along with Tracy’s and their pinup phots were posted alongside that of Rock Hudson.”
5 Do you like Bruce have a link that you are willing to share of a master index for ALL your videos on classic era stars?
**Shipman was the only person to whom (in 1983) Deanna Durbin ever granted an interview after her premature retirement in the late 1940s
Best wishes BOB
Hi Bob, Valley of Decision should have been on the video, according to my files it had a score of 7.1 and should have been in 17th position before Pork Chop Hill. Somehow I missed it. These things can happen. I just have to make sure the more important films don’t get left out. Btw Bruce did not misplace Valley of Decision and it’s 21st on the critics chart.
Interesting anecdote on Duel of the Sun, you were there when the film was brand new and up on the big screen. Being a more senior movie fan you can remember seeing the huge posters for all these classic movies popping up at your local cinema over the decades – The Robe, Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia etc etc and queuing up to see them too. 🙂
I don’t have a master list of my videos, there are over 400 videos on the channel but I’ve only fairly recently started rating classic Hollywood actors and directors, previous videos have been about various movie topics, genres, modern actors and their box office grosses adjusted and unadjusted. This link might give you a better overview of the channel –
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVPRYo9hTtkRc-U2KSAJsGQ/videos
If you pan down the page you can load more videos.
Cheers, Steve.
STEVE
1 It has been said that drug addicts who escape the habit often talk about being given a “second shot at life” in that they discover joys that were hidden from them during their years of obsession with alcohol or other drugs. I am not addicted to substances but I have long been ‘addicted’ to Bruce’s site and if there was any way of measuring such addiction I think it would show that in that in that respect I am among ‘the all time greats’.!!
2 However for a long time I was not interested in the comments aspects of Cogerson so regarding that I missed out in the pioneering days of the site when Bruce was building up our wonderful current library. Accordingly Bruce’s updates and your videos are now giving me that ‘second shot’ in making up for the lost years but while still keeping a HEALTHY addiction. though of course there is now an added bonus in that the videos are a joy in their own right.
3 Forgive me – that is just my long-winded way of saying thanks for the link !
Have a good day.BOB
Hey Bob….well….we are glad you decided to join the party….especially since you have a vast knowledge of behind the scenes stories…that have almost been forgotten…..so it is so good to see you sharing them.
1 Just digesting the comprehensive Joel McCrea page but you’re quite busy now so I’ll save the longer post on it for another time. I keep a list of all pages/updates/comments to which I want to respond so that nothing’s forgotten.
2 Thanks for the update on Judd’s current situation. From what you say it looks as if he at least hasn’t joined the ranks of out-of-work Hollywood actors. The last time I saw Judd was in Relentless 1989 with Leo Rossi in which I think Nelson played a serial killer.
I borrowed it from a video library in the early 90s.
Hope all is going well on your quest BOB
Hey Bob….glad you found your requested McCrea page. Yep Judd is still working…making about 5 movies a year that quickly evaporate to late night cable tv. In fairness to him….his From The Hip was a decent movie…I saw it twice in theaters…and both times the audiences laughed hard and often.
Leaving for Hollywood tonight…WoC has meetings ….and is one of the speakers at the conference….she is currently trying to get me a badge so I can see the speech. After the speech…Hollywood here we come. Got an e-mail about my appointment…here are the rules:
Go to our Specialized Research Collections Request page and register for a research account. This online request service allows you to make requests for materials, track the progress of your requests and plan your visits to our reading rooms anywhere anytime. After registering for an account, you will be able to request items online directly from HOMER and our online finding aids.
1. You will be asked to provide current photo identification upon your arrival in Special Collections.
2. You will be asked to leave all your personal belongings (including all bags, purses, notebooks, books, pens, cell phones) in our lockers. Laptop computers (but not laptop bags) are permitted.
3. Only pencils and note cards (provided) will be allowed in the Reading Room.
4. Materials being consulted must not leave the Reading Room.
5. Eating, drinking, smoking, and cell phone use are not allowed in the Reading Room.
Sounds like am going into a top secret meeting…lol.
HI STEVE:
1 I can’t get into the video link that you gave me above – can you help again ?
2 I see that vote up/vote down buttons appear AFTER a post has been lodged so that the buttons can not be used at that point. For the record I would have given your Quinn video 8/10 overall and 9/10 for art work. As you know Bruce won’t let us give 10/10 !
Bob, that link still works for me. Here is the link to the channel home page –
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVPRYo9hTtkRc-U2KSAJsGQ
Hope that one works okay.
STEVE/BRUCE
1 Still doesn’t work for me. Perhaps when Bruce come on the scene he can restore the connection from his end – otherwise I’ll have to get my daughter to look at it over the weekend. I was wanting to have a look at Bernie Schwartz.
BOB
Bob are you trying to click on the link? It’s not highlighted so it won’t work. What you should do is highlight the link yourself by wiping across with the mouse while holding the left button, and than right click over it. A menu box will open click “open link in new tab” or just “open link”.
HI STEVE
1 That did the trick – thanks and now for Bernie. His career before its permanent decline in the late 1960s had two phases. Phase 1 was from 1949-1955 when he made action films that I loved that were either B movies or ones of modest scale, and he was not taken seriously as an actor in those days and was famous more for his stylish haircut which barbers over here used to advertise as a “Tony” and charge special prices for providing it. Son of Ali Baba, Prince who was a Thief, Purple Mask and Black Shield of Falworth were my favourites among his movies of that period but none of them is in your chart. But that’s understandable as they were by no means classics.
2 The second phase began in 1956 when Burt put him in Trapeze and then Sweet Smell of Success both of which earned him rave notices and launched him into a run of blockbusters and/ or classics which co-starred him with some of the biggest and most respected other names in the business: Douglas, Grant, Peck, Monroe, Lemmon’ Olivier, Hank Fonda and Sinatra
3 OTHER VIDEO COMMENTS I have no Cogerson Curtis Top 5 to compare yours with this time but I think that few people could find fault with your own Top 5 though I was surprised that
Trapeze was outside your Top 10. The Boston Strangler and The Vikings posters are for my money minor masterpieces in artwork. I was glad to see you recognising The Outsider.
4 I have seen your opening quote and it confirms the paranoia that he seemed to have about
his religion (and his Bronx accent) preventing him from ever getting an Oscar. However he seemed to get on well with contemporaries in that he was for example friendly with his idol Cary,
shared an apartment with Brando when they were both up-and-coming, had good working relationships with Lancaster, Sinatra and Douglas and had a warm friendship with even cantankerous old Walter Matthau. I
5 I see that as a ‘companion piece’ you have just also now brought out a video on the other half of a pair who were perhaps as famous in the 1950s for being a husband and wife team as were Mr and Mrs Demi Moore in the 1990s I look forward to watching that video over the weekend.
Have fun BOB
Glad it worked Bob, what you could do is bookmark that video page so you won’t have to look for the link each time.
Thanks for checking out my Tony Curtis video and the film trivia. I saw this quote from Curtis at IMDB –
“I became great friends with all my co-stars. With Gregory Peck, Burt Lancaster, Jack Lemmon and Cary Grant . . . Cary Grant . . . Cary Grant. He could have picked anyone, but he allowed me the privilege to be in the movie with him. Jesus. To be in a movie with Cary Grant. Meeting him was the best thing that ever happened to me. He was the reason why I wanted to get into the movies – and that is all I ever wanted.”
I like Trapeze too, I couldn’t get it higher than 7 points. I should have knocked Insignificance out of the top 10 and let Trapeze in, would anyone complain? Would anyone care? 🙂
You may be happy to know The Black Shield of Falworth makes an appearance in my Janet Leigh video. I think you can guess what film tops her chart… no it’s not Prince Valiant.
Not sure why Bob can not get in there….maybe a copyright issue?
Think you guys got it working…so I will cease my suggestions….glad it is up and running now.
Hey Bob…..not sure why the links are not working for you. Another way to do it….would be to go to You Tube….and type in “Top 10 Charts”…and then all of his videos should pop up. My only guess is to why it is working for us and not you…would be a copyright issue that is only in your area….strange I know…but it has been known to happen. I think you can give Steve a 10/10…lol.
Bruce, the links that day weren’t ‘active’ and Bob was clicking away at them and nothing was happening. I suggested he highlight the link and open in new page and that worked for him. And way of doing it is top copy the URL into the address bar at the top of the page.
🙂
I revisit this page more than any other but recently each time I’ve done so my computer is attacked by spam. That has never happened before so it’s all a bit of a strange coincidence and as everyone knows I idolise Greg i was wondering if someone in the wider Cogerson ‘family of pen-pals’ was trying tongue and cheek to get at me or at least have fun at my expense. Three possibilities occurred to me:
(1) W o C Mrs Columbo may have been given a lot of extra work because you and I complained to her Lieutenant husband about the previous set-up for flagging up new posts and it may have occurred to her to playfully get her own back.
(2) FLORA. She wrote a deliciously funny poem about spammers so she obviously knows about the subject and whilst she probably doesn’t idolise Greg as much as I do because that’s nearly impossible she nevertheless admires him greatly. So she may be trying to warn people off his site as she wants to keep him to herself. I wouldn’t blame her.
(3) YOU. One of the things that you bring to the party on Cogersons is a great sense of humour so it may have occurred to you to “have a bit of fun at Old Bob’s expense.”
Of Course I’m not accusing anyone and if some of the foregoing sounds naive or far-fetched you will understand that I am nowhere near as computer literate as you or Team Cogerson. I watched your 3 new videos last night and hope to comment by midweek.
BOB
Hi Bob, you and Flora have much in common film-wise except sadly she’s not a John Wayne fan, the duke had extreme views and was a little too patriotic if such a thing is possible.
But I digress, Peck like Glenn Ford was very well liked by everyone, not the most exciting actor in the world let’s be honest here but always worth watching. He must have really enjoyed playing evil Josef Mengele in The Boys from Brazil after playing heroes and good guys for decades.
Bruce, if you’re reading I can see an ugly yellow background to some of the film titles on your Peck chart, was it some strange forgotten experiment?
Hi. I noticed that the comments to Steve’s Top 10 Charts on Youtube video on My Darling Greg were unavailable right now and that saddened me.I had commented on it. Now all comments have disappeared.
Now the comments are back. Not sure what happened, but I am glad that they were not lost.
Hi Flora, it happens to Bruce too. Sometimes the comments are held for review or hiding in the spam folder. I don’t know why youtube does that. Luckily it doesn’t always happen. Thanks for the comments, I will check them out now.
Glad the comments are back.
I do have a Roman Holiday photo as a cover photo. Right now I am using it mostly to post new letterboxd reviews and follow pages like yours that are relevant.
Hey Flora…very cool. I have barely been on Letterbxd…lately. Roman Holiday or To Kill A Mockingbird are probably the best Peck movies to use.
Have noticed that anonymous comments are showing up all over the place on this site. I do not know if this is happening to everyone, but I cannot stay signed in. I’ve made some comments waiting to be moderated. I am NOT the person making anonymous comments.
I look forward to Bruce’s next new page.
Flora
Hey Flora….the cache upgrade was causing chaos when comments were involved…..seems you had to hit the refresh button to see the current changes to a page….well we changed some things…but in the end….nothing worked….so we deleted the upgrade. Things should…hopefully….be back to normal now…though the 502 Error Message and the upload time is slowing down again….it has been a very frustrating process….hopefully a fix will be found soon.
Bruce:
I’ve slowly started a new Facebook page in which I can discuss my love of Gregory Peck. I am s member of a closed group. But being that I do have copyright I thought I should start one myself. It has a main photo, but I cannot seem to upload the cover photo. I cannot pick one out that fits.
It is called Flora Robison’s Greg Peck World.
Hey Flora…..the picture you are using looks good to me. I would keep trying photos until you find one you like. Rotten Tomatoes has (at least they used to) have some community photos you might use. Good luck with your new Facebook page.
Thanks.
I have also redone my Letterboxd list of Gregory Peck movies and shared it on Facebook to share some of this.
Here it is:
https://letterboxd.com/florar/list/my-favourite-gregory-peck-movies-with-reviews/
I tagged you on Facebook.
Thanks for all your help about Rotten Tomatoes and other information.
I know what I am doing when typing out information. But photos have always been a problem for me.
🙂
I’ve got a cover photograph. It’s the Roman Holiday one that is on this page too. I tried several photographs that did not fit the size and it was driving me crazy. Thanks again for your help. Have a great weekend.
Hey Flora….it was looking good to me the last time I was there…keep up the good work.