Gregory Peck Movies

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 in 1947's Gentleman's Agreement
Gregory Peck in 1947’s Gentleman’s Agreement

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

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Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in 1953's Roman Holiday
Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in 1953’s Roman Holiday

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. POST ONE of 3
    With reference to Steve’s 1949 noir video [and Alan Ladd has been a big part of Steve’s noir series overall] Chicago Deadline substantially brings-down the curtain on Ladd’s career as major film noir player which in terms of stardom had commenced way back in 1942 with the classic This Gun for Hire.

    He did a handful of noirs in the 1950s But when I was fortunate to come across Laddie in the early 1950s he was settling into his new careers as an Indiana Jones figure in colourful adventure films and as a Wild West Hero – what versatility!

    He made 9 adventure films such as Desert Legion, Thunder in the East, Botany Bay and Hell Below Zero but it was primarily as an A-list western star, especially after the now- legendary Shane, that Laddie probably became known to us in the 1950s.

    He had had I think a bit part in maybe just one western before he became a star: 1940’s The Light of Western Stars. After that he made I think just one more western prior to the 1950s: 1948’s Whispering Smith.

    In the 1950s though he made up for lost time and between 1950 and 1960 he starred in a run of 11 westerns including apart from Shane The Badlanders [which was a western reworking of Huston’s classic Asphalt Jungle] and One Foot in Hell in which he played a criminal villain for the 1st time since his star-making role of Philip Raven in 1942’s This Gun for Hire [though in 1960s war film All the Young Men he was cast in the unsympathetic role of a racist picking on Sidney Poitier].

    In fact in One Foot in Hell Dolores Michaels as a prostitute has a distinction of maybe being the only person -certainly the only woman – to ever kill-off the great Alan Ladd in a western!
    And GREAT he was but don’t take just my word for it: the highly-respected James Mason who carefully-studied Ladd when working close-up to him in Botany Bay proclaimed him a “phenomenon” and I can never recall -except perhaps on THIS site – anyone bestowing that accolade on for example Jace Statham or Myrna Loy.

    Certainly for me Laddie along with the likes of The Duke/Jimmy Stewart/towering Chuck Heston/Joan Crawford/Doris Day/Deanna Durbin/The Great Mumbler/Charlie Bill Stuart and Royal Edward Dano Senior [aka Ed Dano but sometimes known as Eldred G Peck] are among that select group of mega stars who traditionally have attracted one of the most flattering of all epitaphs: “We will never see their like again.”

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  2. With reference to Steve’s 1949 noir video [and Alan Ladd has been a big part of Steve’s noir series overall] Chicago Deadline substantially brings-down the curtain on Ladd’s career as major film noir player which in terms of stardom had commenced way back in 1942 with the classic This Gun for Hire.

    He did a handful of noirs in the 1950s But when I was fortunate to come across Laddie in the early 1950s he was settling into his new careers as an Indiana Jones figure in colourful adventure films and as a Wild West Hero – what versatility!

    He made 9 adventure films such as Desert Legion, Thunder in the East, Botany Bay and Hell Below Zero but it was primarily as an A-list western star, especially after the now- legendary Shane, that Laddie probably became known to us in the 1950s.

    He had had I think a bit part in maybe just one western before he became a star: 1940’s The Light of Western Stars. After that he made I think just one more western prior to the 1950s: 1948’s Whispering Smith.

    In the 1950s though he made up for lost time and between 1950 and 1960 he starred in a run of 11 westerns including apart from Shane The Badlanders [which was a western reworking of Huston’s classic Asphalt Jungle] and One Foot in Hell in which he played a criminal villain for the 1st time since his star-making role of Philip Raven in 1942’s This Gun for Hire [though in 1960s war film All the Young Men he was cast in the unsympathetic role of a racist picking on Sidney Poitier].

    In fact in One Foot in Hell Dolores Michaels as a prostitute has a distinction of maybe being the only person -certainly the only woman – to ever kill-off the great Alan Ladd in a western!

    And GREAT he was but don’t take just my word for it: the highly-respected James Mason who carefully-studied Ladd when working close-up to him in Botany Bay proclaimed him a “phenomenon” and I can never recall -except perhaps on THIS site – anyone bestowing that accolade on for example Jace Statham or Myrna Loy.

    Certainly for me Laddie along with the likes of The Duke/Jimmy Stewart/towering Chuck Heston/Joan Crawford/Doris Day/Deanna Durbin/The Great Mumbler/Charlie Bill Stuart and Royal Edward Dano Senior [aka Ed Dano but sometimes known as Eldred G Peck] are among that select group of mega stars who traditionally have attracted one of the most flattering of all epitaphs: We will never see their like again

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  3. With reference to Steve’s 1949 noir video [and Alan Ladd has been a big part of Steve’s noir series overall] Chicago Deadline substantially brings-down the curtain on Ladd’s career as major film noir player which in terms of stardom had commenced way back in 1942 with the classic This Gun for Hire.

    He did a handful of noirs in the 1950s But when I was fortunate to come across Laddie in the early 1950s he was settling into his new careers as an Indiana Jones figure in colourful adventure films and as a Wild West Hero – what versatility!

    He made 9 adventure films such as Desert Legion, Thunder in the East, Botany Bay and Hell Below Zero but it was primarily as an A-list western star, especially after the now- legendary Shane, that Laddie probably became known to us in the 1950s.

    He had had I think a bit part in maybe just one western before he became a star: 1940’s The Light of Western Stars. After that he made I think just one more western prior to the 1950s: 1948’s Whispering Smith.

    In the 1950s though he made up for lost time and between 1950 and 1960 he starred in a run of 11 westerns including apart from Shane The Badlanders [which was a western reworking of Huston’s classic Asphalt Jungle] and One Foot in Hell in which he played a criminal villain for the 1st time since his star-making role of Philip Raven in 1942’s This Gun for Hire [though in 1960s war film All the Young Men he was cast in the unsympathetic role of a racist picking on Sidney Poitier].

    In fact in One Foot in Hell Dolores Michaels as a prostitute has a distinction of maybe being the only person -certainly the only woman – to ever kill-off the great Alan Ladd in a western!

    And GREAT he was but don’t take just my word for it: the highly-respected James Mason who carefully-studied Ladd when working close-up to him in Botany Bay proclaimed him a “phenomenon” and I can never recall -except perhaps on THIS site – anyone bestowing that accolade on for example Jace Statham or Myrna Loy.

    Certainly for me Laddie along with the likes of The Duke/Jimmy Stewart/towering Chuck Heston/Joan Crawford/Doris Day/Deanna Durbin/The Great Mumbler/Charlie Bill Stuart and Royal Edward Dano Senior [aka Ed Dano but sometimes known as Eldred G Peck] are among that select group of mega stars who traditionally have attracted one of the most flattering of all epitaphs: We will never see their like again

    Reply

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