# Gregory Peck on screen, stage, and radio

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Gregory Peck (1916–2003) was an American actor who had an extensive career in film, television, radio, and on stage. Peck's breakthrough role was as a Catholic priest who attempts to start a mission in China in the 1944 film The Keys of the Kingdom, for which he received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In the same year, he played Count Vronsky in a radio adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. He followed this by starring in Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Spellbound (1945) with Ingrid Bergman. In the late 1940s, Peck received three more nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles as a caring father in The Yearling (1946), a journalist who pretends to be Jewish to write an exposé on American antisemitism in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and a brave airman in Twelve O'Clock High (1949).
Peck co-founded the theatre company La Jolla Playhouse in 1947 with Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer. He starred in productions of Angel Street and The Male Animal for the company. In 1951, he played Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower in the eponymous film, David in the biblical epic David and Bathsheba with Susan Hayward, and a soldier in the western Only the Valiant with Barbara Payton. Two years later, Peck appeared as a journalist who falls in love with a princess in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953) with Audrey Hepburn. During the late 1950s, he portrayed Captain Ahab in Moby Dick (1956), war hero Joseph G. Clemons in Pork Chop Hill (1959), and writer F. Scott Fitzgerald in Beloved Infidel (1959).
He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Atticus Finch, a lawyer attempting to exonerate a black man wrongly accused of rape in courtroom drama To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). The role topped the AFI's 50 Greatest Screen Heroes. Seven years later, he appeared in the title role of the western Mackenna's Gold, and as a spy in The Chairman. In the late 1970s, Peck played General Douglas MacArthur in the eponymous 1977 film and Nazi doctor Josef Mengele in The Boys from Brazil (1978).
Peck made his television debut in 1982 by appearing as President Abraham Lincoln in the miniseries The Blue and the Gray. He followed this with the television film The Scarlet and the Black where he portrayed Catholic priest Hugh O'Flaherty who helped Jews and prisoners of war to hide in World War II-era Rome. For his appearance as Father Mapple in the 1998 miniseries Moby Dick, he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and a nomination for a Primetime Emmy.

## Film

| Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes | Ref(s) |
| 1944 | Days of Glory | Vladimir | | |
| 1944 | The Keys of the Kingdom | Father Francis Chisholm | Best Actor Oscar nomination | |
| 1945 | The Valley of Decision | Paul Scott | | |
| 1945 | Spellbound | Dr. Anthony Edwardes / John Ballantyne | Best Picture Oscar nomination | |
| 1946 | The Yearling | "Penny" Baxter | Best Picture Oscar nomination Best Actor Oscar nomination | |
| 1946 | Duel in the Sun | Lewt McCanles | | |
| 1947 | The Macomber Affair | Robert Wilson | | |
| 1947 | Gentleman's Agreement | Philip Schuyler Green | Best Picture Oscar award Best Actor Oscar nomination | |
| 1947 | The Paradine Case | Anthony Keane | | |
| 1948 | Yellow Sky | James "Stretch" Dawson | | |
| 1949 | The Great Sinner | Fedya | | |
| 1949 | Twelve O'Clock High | Brigadier General Frank Savage | Best Picture Oscar nomination Best Actor Oscar nomination | |
| 1950 | The Gunfighter | Jimmy Ringo | | |
| 1951 | Captain Horatio Hornblower | Captain Horatio Hornblower | | |
| 1951 | Only the Valiant | Captain Richard Lance | | |
| 1951 | David and Bathsheba | David | | |
| 1951 | Pictura: An Adventure in Art | Narrator | Documentary; anthology film, segment: "Legend of Saint Ursula" | |
| 1952 | The World in His Arms | Jonathan Clark | | |
| 1952 | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Harry Street | | |
| 1953 | Roman Holiday | Joe Bradley | Best Picture Oscar nomination Best Actress Oscar award | |
| 1953 | Boum sur Paris | Himself | French film | |
| 1954 | The Million Pound Note | Henry Adams | | |
| 1954 | Night People | Colonel Steve Van Dyke | | |
| 1954 | The Purple Plain | Squadron Leader Bill Forrester | | |
| 1956 | The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | Tom Rath | | |
| 1956 | Moby Dick | Captain Ahab | | |
| 1957 | Designing Woman | Mike Hagen | | |
| 1958 | The Hidden World | Narrator | Documentary | |
| 1958 | The Bravados | Jim Douglas | | |
| 1958 | The Big Country | James McKay | Also producer | |
| 1959 | Pork Chop Hill | Lieutenant Joe Clemons | Also executive producer | |
| 1959 | Beloved Infidel | F. Scott Fitzgerald | | |
| 1959 | On the Beach | Dwight Towers | | |
| 1961 | The Guns of Navarone | Captain Keith Mallory | Best Picture Oscar nomination | |
| 1962 | Cape Fear | Sam Bowden | Also executive producer | |
| 1962 | How the West Was Won | Cleve Van Valen | Best Picture Oscar nomination | |
| 1962 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Atticus Finch | Also executive producer Best Picture Oscar nomination Best Actor Oscar award | |
| 1963 | Captain Newman, M.D. | Capt. Josiah J. Newman | Also executive producer | |
| 1964 | Behold a Pale Horse | Manuel Artiguez | Also executive producer | |
| 1964 | John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums | Narrator | Documentary | |
| 1965 | Mirage | David Stillwell | | |
| 1966 | Arabesque | David Pollock | | |
| 1968 | The Stalking Moon | Sam Varner | | |
| 1969 | Mackenna's Gold | Mackenna | | |
| 1969 | The Chairman | John Hathaway | | [46] [47] |
| 1969 | Marooned | Charles Keith | | |
| 1970 | I Walk the Line | Sheriff Henry Tawes | | |
| 1971 | Shoot Out | Clay Lomax | | |
| 1972 | The Trial of the Catonsville Nine | — | Producer | |
| 1974 | Billy Two Hats | Arch Deans | | |
| 1974 | The Dove | — | Producer | |
| 1976 | The Omen | Robert Thorn | | |
| 1977 | MacArthur | General Douglas MacArthur | | |
| 1978 | The Boys from Brazil | Josef Mengele | | |
| 1980 | The Sea Wolves | Colonel Lewis Pugh | | |
| 1987 | Amazing Grace and Chuck | President | | |
| 1989 | Old Gringo | Ambrose Bierce | | |
| 1989 | Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren | Narrator | Documentary | |
| 1991 | Other People's Money | Andrew "Jorgy" Jorgenson | | |
| 1991 | Cape Fear | Lee Heller | | |
| 1994 | The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann | Narrator | Documentary | |
| 1995 | Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick | Himself | Documentary | |
| 1999 | The Art of Norton Simon | Narrator | Documentary short film | |
| 2000 | A Conversation with Gregory Peck | Himself | Documentary | |
| 2024 | The First Omen | Robert Thorn | Archival footage | |

## Television

| Year(s) | Title | Role(s) | Notes |
| 1982 | The Blue and the Gray | Abraham Lincoln | Television miniseries |
| 1983 | The Scarlet and the Black | Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty | Television film |
| 1985 | 57th Academy Awards | — | Producer |
| 1990 | Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret | Himself | Documentary |
| 1991 | Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days | Narrator | Documentary |
| 1993 | The Portrait | Gardner Church | Television film; also executive producer |
| 1994 | Baseball | Kid Gleason and Connie Mack | Voice, Documentary miniseries |
| 1998 | Moby Dick | Father Mapple | Television miniseries |
| 1999 | American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith | Narrator | Documentary |

## Stage

| Year(s) | Title | Role | Theatre | Notes |
| 1942 | The Morning Star | Cliff Parrilow | Morosco Theatre | September 14 – October 3 |
| 1942–1943 | The Willow and I | Kirkland Todd and Robin Todd | Windsor Theatre | December 10, 1942 – January 2, 1943 |
| 1943 | Sons and Soldiers | Andrew Tadlock | Morosco Theatre | May 4–22 |
| 1947 | Angel Street | Mr. Manningham | La Jolla Playhouse | August 26–31 |
| 1948 | The Male Animal | Tommy Turner | La Jolla Playhouse | August 24–28 |
| 1949 | Light Up the Sky | Unknown | La Jolla Playhouse | July 26–31 |
| 1991–1993 | The Will Rogers Follies | Mr. Ziegfeld (voice) | Palace Theatre | May 1, 1991 – September 5, 1993 |

## Radio

| Year(s) | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1944 | That They Might Live | Dick | |
| 1944 | Screen Guild Players | Count Vronsky | Episode: "Anna Karenina" |
| 1945 | This Is My Best | Unknown | Episode: "Jupiter Laughs" |
| 1945 | Screen Guild Players | Thomas Armstrong | Episode: "Romance" |
| 1945 | The Doctor Fights | Dr. Harry Joseph | Episode: "Medicine for the Enemy" |
| 1946 | Theatre of Romance | Holger Brandt | Episode: "Intermezzo" |
| 1946 | Lux Radio Theatre | Paul Scott | Episode: "Valley of Decision" |
| 1946 | Lux Radio Theatre | Jerry Durance | Episode: "Now, Voyager" |
| 1946 | Cavalcade of America | George Washington | Episode: "Young Major Washington" |
| 1946 | Suspense | Steve Gare | Episode: "The Lonely Road" |
| 1946 | Hollywood Players | Sullivan | Episode: "Sullivan's Travels" |
| 1946 | Hollywood Players | Unknown | Episode: "No Time for Comedy" |
| 1946 | Hollywood Players | Gregory | Episode: "All Through the House" |
| 1947 | Screen Guild Players | Pa Baxter | Episode: "The Yearling" |
| 1947 | Cavalcade for America | Jim Davenport | Episode: "School for Men" |
| 1948 | Duffy's Tavern | Himself | |
| 1948 | Suspense | Ridge Fowler | Episode: "Hitchhiker Poker" |
| 1949 | Suspense | Jeffrey Bruno | Episode: "Murder Through the Looking Glass" |
| 1949 | Screen Directors Playhouse | James "Stretch" Dawson | Episode: "Yellow Sky" |
| 1949 | Suspense | Ben | Episode: "Nightmare" |
| 1949 | The Hotpoint Holiday Hour | Burt Jefferson | Episode: "The Man Who Came To Dinner" |
| 1951 | Screen Directors Playhouse | Jimmy Ringo | Episode: "The Gunfighter" |
| 1951 | Suspense | Mr. MacIntyre | Episode: "The Truth About Jerry Baxter" |
| 1952 | Cavalcade of America | Unknown | Episode: "A Prisoner Named Brown" |
| 1952 | Lux Radio Theatre | Captain Horatio Hornblower | Episode: "Captain Horatio Hornblower" |
| 1952 | Stars in the Air | Pa Baxter | Episode: "The Yearling" |