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. Hey Flora….went to the Way Back Machine website and found your Possibly Interesting Facts on Gregory Peck….hopefully you will let us use them again….if not let us know and we will remove them. While we on the page…we tweaked so other information…,.getting a decent amount of his trailers (16 so far) on the page. My dad would be pissed that Twelve O’Clock High does not have a trailer yet…lol.

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      1. Hey Flora….it took a little work….but I eventually found the “facts”…..and now they are back….thank you.

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  2. 1 HI AGAIN MO Was there ever a nobler hero than Jim McKay in The Big Country?
    The public seemed to think so for it voted Peck’s Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird the Greatest Screen hero of All Time. That was win-win for me and also because BOTH Greg and The Duke are my idols, but I can almost hear other Wayne fans saying “ouch!” In fact Jim McKay is my OWN personal favourite all time hero along with Laddie’s Shane and Patrick Swayze’s Dalton in the 1989 Roadhouse.

    2 POSTERS ENTRIES 1-25. Boys from Brazil, Pork Chop Hill, Yellow Sky with my Richard, Moby Dick [it seems we can’t get away from Widmark!] Mirage, On the Beach, Spellbound, Cape Fear, Guns of Navarone [with Greg’s Capt Mallory being another upstanding hero-“Somebody’s got to do it!” Peck lecturing a reluctant Niven on taking responsibility for commanding a military operation] To Kill a Mockingbird and The Omen. The foreign language one for Big Country is outstanding.

    3 Greg publicly expressed his relief at the success of 1976’s The Omen conceding that it had been ages since he had had a meaningful box office hit. Bruce’s figures would seem to bear out Peck’s concerns because they show that the 1966 Arabesque was his previous even so-so hit of over $80 million adjusted dollars and today that figure is apparently the bottom line within the film industry for a recognised hit, dependent of course on production and marketing costs being economical.

    4 Pleasing STILLS – (1) – (4) solos of Greg with in turn Bacall, Jennifer Jones, Virginia Mayo and Jean Simmons (5) The Yearling in which Greg took over the role meant for Old Cantankerous Tracy (6) the ensemble from Guns of Navarone (7) Peck as Billy Ringo (8) How the West was Won and (8) The Omen. The 2 lobby cards for Spellbound were superb. That’s Skip Homier squaring off to Greg in Gunfighter. Skip was a regular “punk kid” hothead bad guy in 1950s westerns and regularly got his comeuppance for calling out screen fast-draws like Greg and Randy.

    5 Speaking of Virginia Mayo she had a big part in Capt Horatio Hornblower so I just hope the Work Horse has given her all the credit she deserved for that one! You and he agree on 8 of Greg’s Top 10 best reviewed movies and your video overall was worth a 99% rating to me. Good run of my own faves in recent times.

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    1. Hi Bob, thanks for the review, very generous rating (whoa!), info, trivia and comment, much appreciated. Happy you enjoyed the video’s ‘Peck’torial imagery.

      You’re spoiling me with these ratings, I suppose it helps when the subject is one of your top movie idols. I can’t remember how much you gave Myrna’s video, nearly 2 years ago. Or maybe you skipped that one? 😉

      Jim McKay is my favorite Greg Peck hero and one of my all time favorite movie characters too. Chuck Heston’s character in The Big Country is a good contrast to Pecks, one of Heston’s best roles too. The confrontation with his boss near the end one of the best scenes in one of the all time great westerns.

      Five Greg Peck films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – To Kill a Mockingbird, Roman Holiday, The Big Country, Twelve O’Clock High and On the Beach.

      Mockingbird tops all the charts including Bruce’s UMR and Critics charts, looking at the adjusted grosses chart, Duel in the Sun is his biggest hit, followed by The Guns of Navarone and The Omen.

      I’ve decided to add three more expanded videos next week before resuming our normal programming.

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      1. Thanks for letting us know your plans Steve. I have been enjoying your expanded videos. I look forward to three more 50 plus stars.

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        1. Glad you’re enjoying them Flora. When I was doing Top 30s on these great actors I had to leave some good movies off the final list and always felt bad doing so. Now I have more room to maneuver and I have an excuse to add more stills since you and Bob seem to like them.

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      2. HI MO

        1 I’ve explained to you how I rate your videos by using a scale chart for John McCormack songs, not having the expertise to rate movies in the way you and WH do. Mind you the disc that I’m talking about is called The Best of John McCormack so there are no perceived duds among them.

        2 As Donald Trump would boast “I tell it as it is!” so I don’t think an actor being my idol influences me too much, the quality of the posters and stills themselves and the pleasure they give me being the main thing. Indeed I’ve just completed my “review” of your Widmark extended video and although he is my 1st all time idol and Greg my 2nd Dickie’s video has a marginally lower rating than Eldred’s, but more about Richard tomorrow – and then the Cowboy of the Century on Sunday.

        3 I do think too that these extended videos have given you scope to trot out an even greater number and range of your highest quality posters so if ratings mean anything at all they are bound to reflect that.

        4 By the way what gives with this Work Horse guy? He’s now doing in-depth comments on your videos which didn’t seem to happen before unless he was doing them elsewhere and the old Scrooge was denying his own followers sight of them though he deserves great credit for plugging your work extensively.

        5 Anyway of off now and have a nice weekend. RAM 2

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        1. Bruce makes comments on the videos and then copies and pastes them and Steve’s response to him onto this site. Of course, I make my responses to Steve’s videos on his YouTube channel. I do this for several reasons, mostly because I want his followers to be able to read them right under the videos and see he has a fan and I have usually already commented on the stars here on UMR. I enjoy getting notices that Steve has responded to my comments and it is generally the same day. I don’t know how to copy and paste my responses, sorry. But anyone can go on his youtube channel and read my responses there.

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        2. Bob, Bruce loves reviewing films, that’s what I’ve noticed. There’s a site he goes to where he writes detailed reviews on all the films he’s seen.

          I’m not cut out to be a film reviewer. I don’t mind writing one or two sentences on movies I’ve seen but if I go into more detail I start to bore myself and I sometimes end up spoiling the ending for everyone. The late Roger Ebert was always enthusiastic when writing reviews but even he couldn’t help spoiling parts of the film for first time viewers, he would try and explain that it wasn’t really a spoiler but it was.

          Classic era film critics were notorious for revealing the entire plot of the movie to their readers, including who lives and who dies. They didn’t give a crap about spoilers.

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          1. STEVE & FLORA

            Thanks for your explanations.. That’s all useful to know. You both seem to spend a lot of time contributing to diverse movie sites so well done.

  3. 1 By coincidence I was watching recently an old Audie Murphy movie and the villain in it played by Ted de Corsia was called Spangler and kept referring to himself affectionately as “Ole Spang”. Well OUR “Ole Spang” although he was out first will have to wait a day or two because NOBODY comes before my Greg or Richard.

    2 Gregory Peck is my 2nd all-time movie star [after Widmark] and is generally recognised as one of the very Greatest of movie stars and a massive ticket seller. Yet he apparently led such a respectable and stable life for a Hollywood actor that one can never learn or impart very much “trivia” about him.

    3 Of course the logical conclusion from that situation is that unlike some stars his great fame and success rested not on hyperbole or gimmicks but on personality and talent and of course he was fabulously good-looking in a sophisticated way. I can recall queuing for Duel in the Sun and girls behind me swooning at the cinema wall poster with Greg in it.

    4 Best POSTERS for me were 50-26. Shootout, The Chairman, David and Bathsheba, Night People, The Purple Plain, MacArthur, Arabesque, The World in his Arms, The Stalking Moon, Captain Newman, The Bravados and Beloved Infidel. Originally the latter was designed as a vehicle for Audrey Hepburn and her husband Mel Ferrer and when that fell thru the role of “Scotty” was offered to Monty Clift before Greg was signed with Debs as his Sheila Graham. However apparently Greg hated his performance in that movie.

    5 My notes record only 4 STILLS in Part I but they were all impressive to me – (1) the trio in Macomber Affair (2) Greg with Susan Hayward in 1952’s Snows of Kilimanjaro who I think was his Bathsheba in David and Bathsheba the year before unless that was Angela Lansbury? (3) and (4) fine, nostalgic lobby cards of Greg with Loren in Arabesque and him in The Bravadoes with Brit Joan Collins. I see that among your poster selection is a “rogue” giving Loren 1st billing over Peck in Arabesque. Never happened! – and kindly refrain from such Work Horse type stunts in future.

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    1. Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing the first half of my expanded Greg Peck video, it is appreciated. Glad you liked the pictorial content. Only 4 stills eh, it’s front heavy again.

      Sophia billed ahead of Greg, oh dear, that’s not on now is it? I’m assuming the Arabesque poster is Italian or Spanish, they practically worship La Loren in those countries.

      Regarding your previous post on your hidden identity, were you swooning at posters of Greg too, Bob? Come on out with it. [cue Bob blushing] 😉

      Looking forward to p.2 of your review on Mr. Peck.

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      1. HI STEVE

        Some actors are so popular and striking in appearances that EVERYBODY admires their looks. It was said of Rock that at the height of his popularity when he was producing hit-after-hit and virtually owned the Quigley Top 10 “even dogs followed him about barking”!

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  4. Hi Steve,
    I\’m also a Gregory Peck fan, so I appreciated your expanded video covering 50 films, of which I have seen 27. Nice stills of the team in The Guns of Navarone, a memorable scene from The Gunfighter, Peck and Virginia Mayo in Captain HH, with Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun, Peck alone in 12\’Clock High. Among my favorite posters were the ones for David and Bathsheba, (although none of the 3 drawings of Peck look like him!), Moby Dick (French poster), The Guns of Navarone (both), The Night People (Agente Secreto poster), and the glittering McKenna\’s Gold.

    There are few Gregory Peck movies that I did not like (though I have only seen a couple of your bottom dozen), but if I\’m to pick the top 5, they would be: The Gunfighter, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Moby Dick, The Guns of Navarone, and On the Beach. But of course, he has made many other great films. I was glad to see Mirage among the relatively high rated movies. It\’s not one of his most known films and did not do well at the box office, but it\’s also an old favorite of mine.

    Peck was perhaps the most successful movie star to come out of the post-war era (a period that also saw the emergence of Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas and Montgomery Clift), and it\’s amazing to think that from 1944 to 1949, he was nominated 4 times for Best Actor and had 7 huge box office hits. Your video does justice to his long and impressive career.

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    1. Hi Phil, thanks for checking out my Greg Peck Vid, it is appreciated.

      I noticed when making these videos that Hollywood action heroes Flynn, Power and Taylor did not get a single Oscar, Globe or BAFTA nomination… those snooty buggers!

      Peck was a highly respected and well liked actor. But I did think Peter O’Toole deserved to win the Oscar that year for his mesmerising portrayal of T.E. Lawrence. And he deserved to win for playing Henry II (again) in The Lion in Winter, but lost to Cliff Robertson.

      What was Peck’s best ever acting role? Gentleman’s Agreement? Keys of the Kingdom? To Kill a Mockingbird? He was very good in that but it wasn’t much of a stretch for the actor. He tried hard as Captain Ahab but wasn’t he miscast for the role? I thought he was good as Dr. Mengele, the most evil character he played. My favorite Peck role was Jim McKay in The Big Country.

      By the way did you have to enter a Captcha word before submitting the post? those slashes before each apostrophe in your comment also happen to me when I have to use a captcha before I could post.

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      1. Hi Steve,
        Well at least John Wayne got an Oscar, and even though he was not a swift young man by that time, I think he could still be considered an action hero 🙂 But I know what you mean.

        I think Gregory Peck created a unique and memorable characterization in To Kill a Mocking Bird, even if the role did not involve many highly dramatic moments. O’Toole lost the Oscar to him, but received a BAFTA for best British Actor, while Burt Lancaster received a BAFTA for best Foreign Actor for Birdman of Alcatraz. All very different performances, but all 3 were equally deserving in my view. In the end, only one individual can win these awards and I guess the final selection is often debatable.

        I would probably rate Atticus Finch as one of Peck’s best, if not his best performance. Other ones that come close for me are his roles in The Gunfighter and Gentlemen’s Agreement. I had not thought of The Big Country, but I agree he was in great in that one as well. It’s often been said that Peck was miscast in Moby Dick, but here again I think he did fine turn, effectively conveying the crazed obsession of Ahab. However, I never read the book, so I can’t say whether his portrayal was loyal to the novel. So generally, I like Peck in any-thing. We usually think that Peck’s screen persona is that of the comforting, thoughtful hero who is full of integrity, but when you look at this career, you see that he was able to take on many other personas.

        Yeap, I’ve been having to enter words to show I’m not automaton before each of my last comments get posted. As if a computer could write my posts! 😉

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      2. I thought Peck was at his best in “Boys From Brazil”,and funnily enough,I enjoyed him as Ahab in Moby Dick.

        “Gentleman’s Agreement” would have been quite controversial when it was released,but the highlight for me,was having the underrated John Garfield in it.

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  5. Hello,
    I am a big fan too for the Guns of Navarro and i saw it a lot and i am always excited like a kid whit the moment of the elevator and the bombs;
    I like very much this actor specially in the 40 with films like Spellbound but Moby Dick stay a very good film in my memory and in the mean time every time i saw this film i am for The whales not for him….
    A plus
    Pierre

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