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.
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- 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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1 After I sent my Jane Fonda post this morning I played an old audio tape of mine on which I had recorded a radio record request show way back in 1989/90. I have many old tapes going back to then. During the record requests guest star Gregory Peck came onto the show to talk about his then new film Old Gringo which he was in the UK to promote.
2 Old Gringo was produced by Jane through her film company and she had selected Greg for the male lead. In the interview he said they had got on fantastically well and that at the end of a day’s successful shooting they would often give each other a congratulatory kiss or hug; and then Greg quipped “That was the first movie on which I ever kissed my producer!”
3 No doubt Jane had reciprocal thoughts for she was probably living out the daydream of most of the young girls of the 1950s who would most likely have found to die for a kiss from matinee idol and all round legend Gregory Peck
[I have copies this from Jane Fonda’s page]
CORRECTION
1 In my previous post Captain Newman MD should read 112.0 and not 81.7 which changes the totals to $3.637 billion overall /average per movie $134.7 million – apologies.
2 Incidentally it’s been years since I’ve seen Capt Newman but I have always thought of it as an attempt to cash in on the massive success of Operation Petticoat with Bernie in effect reprising his role from that movie and Peck taking over from Schwartz’s idol
I don’t think I’ve seen Captain Newman MD, I’ll watch out for it next time it’s on TV. Cheers.
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Hey Bob…you need to get an Access database….so you don’t make those mistakes…lol.
1 Well Steve you continue to steal marches on the Big Boy with back-to-back videos of possibly Hollywood’s No 1 sweetheart team of the 1950s. Janet enjoyed just a handful of movies where she could be said to be truly THE star but I supposed her status will always be preserved for playing Marion Crane in Psycho and the associated iconic shower scene. My favourite Janet movies were the latter, The Naked Spur with Jimmy Stewart and Holiday Affair with Big Bob.
2 OTHER COMMENTS (1) very saucy opening still from Jet Pilot ? (2) Great posters for Touch of Evil, The Vikings and Safari my favourite Vic Mature film (3) again no Bruce Top 5 for direct comparison but naturally I was delighted with Naked Spur being your No 4 and Holiday Affair reaching No 8 (4) it was good to see the two mother and daughter films included in your chart.(5)Black Shield of Falworth is often mocked because it comes from Tony’s “Yonda lies de castle of my fadda ” days so in the circs your 6.1 is quite reasonable (another of my fave performers Dick Van Dyke gets an outing in your Top 10 in Bye Bye Birdie..
3 Super treat Stevewith usual riveting art work. I see that for now at least Janet has more views than Tony. Glancing over a number of the stats for the videos in your catalogue I feel that some of my own people are not doing too badly for views: Widmark 314/Duke 265/Greg 257/Laddie & Crawford 169 and I am delighted for both of us that Tweedie after just 1 week has reached nearly 90 views and Doris over 100. Indeed as you know Widmark is my all time fave movie actor [at least for sheer entertainment value] and the only performers that I immediately detect with more views than him are Burt Lancaster and Robert Taylor ?
Bruce was nice enough to link my Flynn video to a fan site and I think it had well over 1000 views last time I checked. Fan sites do come in useful and Bruce knows where they’re hidden. 🙂
Once a video takes off it just keeps on going, my Keira Knightley video for instance gets 1000 views each week, no idea why.
I’m sure I’ve seen Safari, just can’t remember it. I’ve noticed that Tony Curtis starred in a bunch of films with Piper Laurie too, I remember her best as Sissy Spacek’s religious nut of a mother in Brian De Palma’s Carrie.
Janet Leigh’s naughty opening photo where’s she’s completely naked [cue stampede to view video) except for a towel is supposedly from Jet Pilot, one of the worse rated John Wayne movies. But I remember enjoying it. It’s worth watching for a young Leigh playing I think a Russian spy? Leigh was quite young when she started filming in 1950 and producer Howard Hughes held the film back years before finally releasing it to theaters in 1957 to tepid reviews and box office.
Bob, that’s three actors in a row I’ve ‘scooped’ Bruce on, a 4th coming up on monday. And I thought he was running out of suitable candidates.
The ‘other’ British Jimmy Stewart is coming up soon too.
Bruce (and Wife of Cogerson), I like the new comments page, your website needs some sort of forum page for chit-chat and this will do for now, much appreciated.
1 It seems that for once we’ve both “scooped” Bruce.
2 Some months ago I did for fun an inflation adjusted project which ranked the 60 highest RENTAL earning stars of the Classic Era according to the Consumer Price Index. I had gotten a large number of the ACTUAL rentals from Wikipedia but there were many gaps in my knowledge so to fill in the gaps and to satisfactorily complete the exercise I made appropriate deductions
from grosses that Bruce had conveniently provided and out of courtesy I later sent him my findings on about 20 names and he told me that the only performer on that short list on whom he had not done a page was Ms Russell. That of course is still the case.
BOB
Hey Bob and Steve…..I bow to Steve and his latest classic videos….I will check them out when I finish the catching up on my comments here. Thoughts from your comments.
(1) Glad the Flynn group has been so supportive to your videos.
(2) Bob….I liked Naked Spur as well….but I have not seen Holiday Affair.
(3) I see a mention of Jet Pilot….fingers crossed that it will make the Top 10….lol.
(4) Yep….I am still ignoring the movie career of Ms. Jane Russell…..one day she will have some UMR glory.
(5) Three in a row….damn….I guess I need to get working on a new page…lol.
Congrats on your video success Steve….very glad to see it. Thanks for the comments and the multiple visits.