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 by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Gregory Peck movie received.
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- 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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Today is a sad anniversary. It was on this date in 2003 that we lost this great man. I remember that I was not able to take part in the tribute book to his widow that our fan club made even though I was part of a birthday book when he turned 85. I am not sure which relative has it now – probably Ceclia.
I’ve gotten to the point where I am able to watch all of his movies regardless of genre. When he was old I could not watch anything sentimental like Roman Holiday at all.
Now I’ve seen all but two of his movies: One big screen: Amazing Grace and Chuck; and one TV movie: The Portrait opposite lauren Bacall and his daughter Cecelia.
I just saw Guns of Navarone the other day. I have the movie memorized. I’ll probably watch one of his films tonight, but I have not decided which one.
Found this page on Facebook where you shared it not long after you updated it and made me part of the page. I decided that Gregory Peck’s page on this site wasn’t getting enough traffic so I re-shared it.
I would like to give a shout out thanks to the man who calls himself Bogie56 on TCM forums for mentioning me in the Favourite Performances Thread regarding the movie The Yearling while they are on the 1946 movies until tomorrow.
I’d love to be able to participate guys, and thanks to Larry for emailing me about it. Thanks to Bogie for sharing that he thinks Greg did an even better performance in it than as Atticus.
Flora aka GregoryPeckfan aka Columbofan.
The Yearling is a beautiful film and it is indeed one of the best performances Greg did in his career.
Sounds like Bogie56 is a good person. Glad you have a place to give him and them a shout out….I agree The Yearling is a beautiful film.
Yes he is a very nice person. I have met some very nice people on the internet like you and your family.
Happy 100th birthday to My darling Greg!
TCM is airing a 24 hour tribute to him.
Happy Belated Birthday To Gregory Peck…I wonder how I missed this comment….almost two months ago….strange..
Bruce:
Harper Lee has died at 89
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/harper-lee-dead-dies-kill-a-mockingbird-author-1201710486/
Sad news. But she had a wonderful life and leaves behind one of the greatest novels ever written…and a movie that is not too bad either.