List of Gregory Peck performances


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 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, a journalist who pretends to be Jewish to write an exposé on American anti-semitism in Gentleman's Agreement, and a brave airman in Twelve O'Clock High.
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 with Audrey Hepburn. During the late 1950s, he portrayed Captain Ahab in Moby Dick, war hero Joseph G. Clemons in Pork Chop Hill, and writer F. Scott Fitzgerald in Beloved Infidel.
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. 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.

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

YearTitleRoleNotes
1944Days of GloryVladimir
1944'
1945'
1945Spellbound / John Ballantyne
1946'
1946Duel in the Sun
1947'
1947Gentleman's Agreement
1947'
1948Yellow Sky
1949'Fedja
1949Twelve O'Clock High
1950'
1951'
1951Only the Valiant
1951David and BathshebaDavid
1951'NarratorDocumentary; anthology film, segment: "Legend of Saint Ursula"
1952'
1952'
1953Roman Holiday
1953Boum sur ParisHimselfFrench film
1954'
1954Night People
1954'
1956'
1956Moby Dick
1957Designing Woman
1958'NarratorDocumentary
1958'
1958'Also producer
1959Pork Chop Hill
1959Beloved Infidel
1959On the Beach
1961'
1962Cape Fear
1962How the West Was Won
1962To Kill a Mockingbird
1963Captain Newman, M.D.
1964Behold a Pale Horse
1964'NarratorDocumentary
1965Mirage
1966Arabesque
1968'
1969Mackenna's GoldMackenna
1969'
1969Marooned
1970I Walk the Line
1971Shoot Out
1972'—Producer
1974Billy Two Hats
1974'—Producer
1976'
1977MacArthur
1978'
1980'
1987Amazing Grace and ChuckPresident
1989Old Gringo
1989'NarratorDocumentary
1991Other People's Money
1991Cape Fear
1994'NarratorDocumentary
1995Wild Bill: Hollywood MaverickHimselfDocumentary
1999'NarratorDocumentary short film
2000'HimselfDocumentary

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1982'Television miniseries
1983'Monsignor Hugh O'FlahertyTelevision film
198557th Academy Awards—Producer
1990'HimselfDocumentary
1991'NarratorDocumentary
1993Television film; also executive producer
1994Baseball / Connie MackVoice, Documentary miniseries
1998Moby DickTelevision miniseries
1999American Prophet: The Story of Joseph SmithNarratorDocumentary

Stage

Radio appearances

YearTitleRoleNotes
1944That They Might LiveDick
1944Screen Guild PlayersEpisode: "Anna Karenina"
1945This Is My BestUnknownEpisode: "Jupiter Laughs"
1945Screen Guild PlayersEpisode: "Romance"
1945'Episode: "Medicine for the Enemy"
1946Theatre of RomanceEpisode: "Intermezzo"
1946Lux Radio TheatreEpisode: "Valley of Decision"
1946Lux Radio TheatreEpisode: "Now, Voyager"
1946Cavalcade of AmericaEpisode: "Young Major Washington"
1946SuspenseEpisode: "The Lonely Road"
1946Hollywood PlayersSullivanEpisode: "Sullivan's Travels"
1946Hollywood PlayersUnknownEpisode: "No Time for Comedy"
1946Hollywood PlayersGregoryEpisode: "All Through the House"
1947Screen Guild PlayersEpisode: "The Yearling"
1947Cavalcade for AmericaEpisode: "School for Men"
1948Duffy's TavernHimself
1948SuspenseEpisode: "Hitchhiker Poker"
1949SuspenseEpisode: "Murder Through the Looking Glass"
1949Screen Directors PlayhouseEpisode: "Yellow Sky"
1949SuspenseBenEpisode: "Nightmare"
1949'Episode: "The Man Who Came To Dinner"
1951Screen Directors PlayhouseEpisode: "The Gunfighter"
1951SuspenseEpisode: "The Truth About Jerry Baxter"
1952Cavalcade of AmericaUnknownEpisode: "A Prisoner Named Brown"
1952Lux Radio TheatreEpisode: "Captain Horatio Hornblower"
1952Stars in the AirEpisode: "The Yearling"