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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Very interesting! Thanks for the update.
Thank you Jane….glad you like the update.
HI BRUCE
The final line of para 1 of my previous post should read –
“2 continuous decades of solid box office and/or big CRITICAL hits.”
Sorry for the error but sure miss that editing button!
Hey Bob…..hopefully you are now seeing the “editing button” for comments…plus it is now 10 minutes long. Sorry the website was having so many issues….but feel we have them almost resolved…late last night was a big breakthrough. Only took a month. Views went down the toilet for March….we had at least 20 times that the website went “dark”….almost 2 days worth…..and then about 2 weeks off not being able to see the whole pages.
WoC and her tech friend are looking into some alternatives to my current web provider….hoping to get that put together before March 2020….which is our renewal time….and the time they normally screw up the website. Fingers crossed.
Gregory Peck was born this day in 1916. It is now 16 years since Greg died.
Happy Belated Birthday to Mr. Peck. Just got through adding trailers to all of his movies….plus added the chronological table to the page as well.
HI BRUCE The update is warmly welcomed from me and I’m sure from Flora as well. What the chronological table instantly highlights is that Greg’s main “heyday” was probably from Keys of
the Kingdom in 1944 until Captain Newman in 1963. When the chronological table is married with the box office stats table it will be seen that Greg achieved what very few other even legendary stars like himself did – 2 continuous decades of solid box office and/or big commercial hits.
When The Omen was massive in 1976,13 years after Capt Newman, Greg being the modest person he was, conceded that he was glad to benefit once more from the kind of mega hit that he used to churn out routinely in his heyday.
Brando for example was massive in the 1950s and had great commercial and critical success in parts the 1970s, especially with Godpop and Tango, but he almost went AWOL as a major force in the 1960s and after the blockbuster success of Superman and Apocalypse Now in the 1978-80 period he was was never really the same ole Mumbler again despite a few flashes in the pan – ie he never had 20 years continuous solid success in the way that Peck did.
The Duke was of course “a Beast at the Box Office” [as you tend to express it!] for record periods but he never enjoyed the critical acclaim that Greg did when the latter was at his peak and Greg’s success as an actor virtually rivaled Brando’s while the Peck box office returns were more consistent than those of The Great Mumbler. The following stats from IMDB illustrate my point about the acting successes and your stats tables of course will bear out what I have said about box office achievements.
TOTAL NUMBER OF OSCAR AND GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS COMBINED
Brando/18
Greg/15
The Duke/6
The addition of the trailers is most welcome too [and Flora and I mightn’t be able to get to bed tonight for watching them!]
“And just when you thought a Cogerson page couldn’t become more comprehensive!” – Voted Up!
Hi Bob, sorry you lost the link, here is the link to the home page on my video channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVPRYo9hTtkRc-U2KSAJsGQ?disable_polymer=true
If you want the link to the main video page here it is –
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVPRYo9hTtkRc-U2KSAJsGQ/videos?disable_polymer=1
You can also use the many video links Bruce has kindly shared on his site. Click on the title of any video and look for the name ‘Top 10 Charts’ below the video, click on that and it should take you to the homepage.
“I don’t lecture and I don’t grind any axes. I just want to entertain.”
G. Peck
HI STEVE
Many thanks. That keeps me conveniently in contact with with your relevant pages/videos and will enable me to continue providing comments.
Thanks also for the quote. Always love anything to do with Greg. And boy did he entertain!
PS You recently thought I was undervaluing Chuck as an action hero. That’s not so I didn’t mention him in the action hero context because he was much, much more than that.
HI STEVE
Thanks very much for your feedback to my Glenn Close posts. I liked the quotes especially the one about Meryl Streep.
May I ask a favour from you? On 19 Sept 2016 you gave me on this Greg page the link to your videos that I have been successfully using ever since but now so many more posts have gone above the post with the link that it takes me a bit of time to scroll through the sections of this page when I want to use the link.
Could you now therefore transfer the link to the top of this Greg Peck page? Many thanks Bob.