Gregory Peck - biography

“I don’t lecture and I don’t grind any axes.  I just want to entertain.”

“My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln’s convictions, his vision, and his toughness.”

“What did I do in high school?  I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.”

“I met Gary Cooper soon after I came to Hollywood.  He asked how many pictures I’d made: ‘Two.’ He’d made 62.  How then asked how were my pictures.  ‘One good, one bad.’ ‘You’re ahead of the game.’ He went on to say of all his films, two out of every five were good.”

“Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.”

“I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.”

“I never liked the name Eldred.  Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.”

“I’m not a do-gooder.  It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian.  I simply take part in activities that I believe in.”

“Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it’s you, and I think that’s what the audience is really interested in...  you, how you’re going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.”

“People told me I could be Governor of California or the Senator, if I wanted to go that way.  It wouldn’t be the life for me.  They live in a goldfish bowl.”

“There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us.  And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.”

“Tough times don’t last, tough people do, remember?”

Gregory Peck has appeared in the following films:
Days of Glory (1944)
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
The Valley of Decision (1945)
Spellbound (1945)
The Yearling (1946)
Duel in the Sun (1946)
The Macomber Affair (1947)
Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
The Paradine Case (1947)
Yellow Sky (1948)
The Great Sinner (1949)
Twelve O’Clock High (1949)
The Gunfighter (1950)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
Only the Valiant (1951)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
The World in His Arms (1952)
The Million Pound Note (1953)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Night People (1954)
The Purple Plain (1954)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
Moby Dick (1956)
Designing Woman (1957)
The Bravados (1958)
The Big Country (1958)
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
Beloved Infidel (1959)
On the Beach (1959)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Cape Fear (1962)
How the West Was Won (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
Mirage (1965)
Arabesque (1966)
The Stalking Moon (1968)
Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
The Chairman (1969)
Marooned (1969)
I Walk the Line (1970)
Shoot Out (1971)
Billy Two Hats (1974)
The Omen (1976)
MacArthur (1977)
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
The Sea Wolves (1980)
La Hora bruja (1985)
Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
Old Gringo (1989)
Other People’s Money (1991)
Cape Fear (1991)