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Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck was a celebrated American actor and one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s.

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Gregory Peck is best known for Iconic American actor known for roles in classic films such as 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Roman Holiday'. On Dead or Alive, Gregory Peck is listed in the Oscar Best Actors category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Gregory Peck is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Iconic American actor known for roles in classic films such as 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Roman Holiday'.
Listed under: Oscar Best Actors

About Gregory Peck

He was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck the 12th-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. After studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner, Peck began appearing in stage productions, acting in more than 50 plays and three Broadway productions. He first gained critical success in The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), a John M. Stahl–directed drama that earned him his first Academy Award nomination. He starred in a series of successful films, including romantic-drama The Valley of Decision (1945), Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) and family film The Yearling (1946). He encountered lukewarm commercial reviews at the end of the 1940s, his performances including The Paradine Case (1947) and The Great Sinner (1948). Peck reached global recognition in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing back-to-back in the book-to-film adaptation of Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) and biblical drama David and Bathsheba (1951). He starred alongside Ava Gardner in The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) and Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday (1953). Other notable films in which he appeared include Moby Dick (1956, and its 1998 mini-series), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Cape Fear (1962, and its 1991 remake), The Omen (1976) and The Boys from Brazil (1978). Throughout his career he often portrayed protagonists with "moral fiber".

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