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.
- 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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My thoughts on Steve’s video and Gregory Peck movies
“The Great Greg gets an update. Seems there has been lots of talk about Greg on UMR for 7 straight years. #45 David and Bathsheba…massive hit that is an ok movie. #42 I enjoyed Marooned….but it is no Apollo13 #39 Sea Wolves was actually depressing to watch…they all looked so old #38 Snows of Killmanjro…slow placed #37 The Purple Plain…not one of his best #33 Beyond a Pale Horse…ok at best..no Quinn and Peck scenes..what a shame #32 MacArthur….never got going…no Patton #29 The Stalking Moon…good western #28 Mac’s Gold…a very good western #27 Captain Newman….good cast…movie is blah. #25 Boys From Brazil…seeing Peck and Larry O. wrestle at the end is interesting. #24 Man in Suite….good drama #23 Valley of Decision…my least favorite Peck movie from the 1940s #21Duel in the Sun….massive hit #20 Pork Chop Hill….brutal but good movie #19 Cape Fear..cameo role #18 Yellow Sky….classic western #17 Moby Dick….should have been even better #16 Gentleman’s Agreement….ok Best Picture winner. #14 Captain HH…..looks awesome #13 On The Beach…love this one #12 Keys to the Kingdom…shocked how much I liked this one #11 The Yearling…another massive hit #10 Spellbound…ok Hitch flick #9 The Omen….the first of many Omen movies #8 Cape Fear…classic but Mitchum has the plum role #7 HTWWW…all-star box office smash #6 The Gunfighter…one of my favorite Peck movies #5 Guns of Navarone…one of my dad’s favorites. #4 Twelve O’Clock High…another of my dad’s favorites #3 The Big Country…my favorite Peck movie #2 Roman Holiday….too bad Peck and Hepburn did not make another movie together. #1 To Pet A Mockingbird….classic indeed…..so that is 32…or 64%. Voted up and shared.”
Epic post Bruce, thanks for the comment, vote and share! I’m amazed that you can remember details on all the films you’ve watched, my memory is so bad that I probably wouldn’t remember if I liked an old movie I’d only watched once years ago. 32 out of 50 is good, I managed 28, Flora has seen 49! I think she likes Greg. 🙂
The Guns of Navarone is one of my dads favorites too I think he saw it at the cinema when it first came out. I remember seeing The Omen at the cinema a couple of times in 1976 and than I went shopping for Jerry Goldsmith’s Oscar winning music score. No Amazon or internet back then, we had to leave the house to do our shopping, barbaric I know but thats how it was.
Steve
Computer repaired and will get it tomorrow though it will be the evening before my daughter can set it up for me. Damn nuisance these people who go to work during the day! She’s in tithe teaching profession and we know from experience on this site what THEY are like!
It will probably be Friday before I send substantive posts but in meantime I,vet very much enjoyed the Spangler and Greg videos and have made notes on them.
At least the computer is repaired Bob, that’s the main thing. And you’ll have the weekend to catch up. Don’t forget p.2 of your Tyrone Power review. Always interested in what you have to say on these videos.
Looking at my previous Gregory Peck video, it only had 4 stills among the posters. The new one has 17, the stills are taking over! 🙂
Hi Steve
Ty power not forgotten and I see that I now have Dickie to add to the list and he’s my all time no 1 fave actor though he chastised The Duke for calling him Dick and not Richard and Big John didn’t like being told off!
Great that all three of us (You, me, and Bruce) are big fans of The Guns of Navarone. I usually respond to your videos on your YouTube channel only, but I just had to talk more about this film. I have seen it many times and sometimes people are surprised that I prefer it over Roman Holiday. Besides it being a great film, when Gregory Peck was getting older, I found it more difficult to watch sentimental films. So I watched mostly war movies. It’s lots of fun.
Hi Flora, one of my first hubs at Hubpages was on Alistair MacLean the author of The Guns of Navarone. One of your favorite actors, Richard Widmark, starred in a couple of MacLean movie adaptations – The Secret Ways and Bear Island.
Steve
The Secret Ways was the last film I watched the night before I went off to join the Royal Airr Force back in 1961 so you can imagine the nostalgia that even mention of the title invokes in me RAM 2
I have seen The Secret Ways before, but not Bear Island. I am a fan of MacLean movies.
HI AGAIN MO
Short post went through again so will await my computer before trying long ones once more
However in meantime am enjoying latest videos and am making notes so some of the work is being done. RAM 2
Bob, at least you make copies of your posts so you don’t have to type everything down again. I hate working on tablets, too small and fiddly and sometimes unresponsive too. Laptops are much better, especially with a mouse connected and nothing beats a good desktop PC.
STEVE
Still waiting for return of my computer and in meantime grappling with tablet
I spent 20 minutes last night and 30 mins this morn trying to get a substantive Greg post through to you but was told each time that my posts may have spam which is rubbish.
It seems that I can get reasonable length posts through to WH but only short ones to you so fingers crossed, here goes “Once more into the breach dear friends. For England!”
Hi Bob, computer repaired? Faster than ever? High definition? Updates updated? Viruses vanquished? Firefox or Chrome?
Looking forward to some trivia-packed reviews from the UMRs resident ‘classics’ expert. Another big favorite of yours due in a few hours at Steve’s Video Shack.
Hi Steve
Peck post on way. Sorry things out of order I will deal with “backlog” Soon,