Gregory Peck Dies At 87
Oscar-Winner Died Overnight
LOS ANGELES (AP) Gregory Peck, the lanky, handsome movie star whose long career included such classics as "Roman Holiday," "Spellbound" and his Academy Award-winner, "To Kill a Mockingbird," has died, a spokesman said Thursday. He was 87.
Peck died overnight, Monroe Friedman told The Associated Press.
Peck's craggy good looks, lanky grace and measured speech contributed to his screen image as the decent, courageous man of action. From his film debut in 1944 with "Days of Glory," he was never less than a star. He was nominated for the Oscar five times, and his range of roles was astonishing.
He portrayed a priest in "Keys of the Kingdom," combat heroes in "Twelve O'Clock High" and "Pork Chop Hill," Westerners in "Yellow Sky" and "The Gunfighter," a romantic in "Roman Holiday." His commanding presence suited him for legendary characters: King David in "David and Bathsheba," sea captains in "Captain Horatio Hornblower" and "Moby Dick," F. Scott Fitzgerald in "Beloved Infidel," the war leader "MacArthur," and Abraham Lincoln in the TV miniseries "The Blue and the Grey."
Peck's rare attempts at unsympathetic roles usually failed. He played the renegade son in the Western "Duel in the Son" and the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele in "The Boys from Brazil."
Offscreen as well as on, Peck conveyed a quiet dignity. He had one amicable divorce, and scandal never touched him. He served as president of the Motion Picture Academy and was active in the Motion Picture and Television Fund, American Cancer Society, National Endowment for the Arts and other causes.
"I'm not a do-gooder," he insisted after learning of the Academy's Jean Hersholt humanitarian award in 1968. "It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in."
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when he was in To Kill A Mockingbird, he ruined the book for me because my imagination was no longer able to create the perfect Finnegus, he was it. Sad day indeed.
~rougerum
You mean Atticus??
Anyway, to bad about Peck. Good performer.
Quote from: The Gold Trumpetwhen he was in To Kill A Mockingbird, he ruined the book for me because my imagination was no longer able to create the perfect Finnegus,
man u don't know what ur talking about these days.
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oh man, totally.
aww, thats terrible. he was just in that moby dick movie 5 years ago too. he looked good. :cry:
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Sad news
I think Finnegus is a strange backwards amalgamation of the character's full name, Atticus Finch.
Gregory Peck was so great. Hearing this news this morning made me think that perhaps I'd watch To Kill A Mockingbird tonight. Then I remembered some lame fellow I used to work with stole it (along with my first copy of Magnolia).
he will be missed
first we find out about Kubrick , and now this, and yet mesh walks the earth
:: points at god and makes like apollo creed in rocky three :: Whats a matta wit You man !!!!!!!!!!!
goodbye Old gringo Ju will be missed Mang :: puts on a sombrero and takes a swig of tequila::
it's weird, i was JUST watching the omen about 2 weeks ago. i actually think it's the only peck movie i've seen. i must've seen it about a billion times but not in a while, so i took the old vhs out of retirement last week to watch it. sucks.
He was 87! Old people die!
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explain this theory of yours
just cuz old people die doesn't mean you can't feel sad when they're gone. even i see the sadness in death.
if only the top two threads were reversed. then it would truly be a just and fair world.
JENNIFER LOPEZ R.I.P.
GREGORY PECK
Quote from: themodernage02if only the top two threads were reversed. then it would truly be a just and fair world.
JENNIFER LOPEZ R.I.P.
:: gets to work building a statue of her Ass that will stand proudlly in the bronx::
it will be at 1:1 scale and towering over 30 feet high and stretching over 2 1/2 city blocks.
Quote from: themodernage02it will be at 1:1 scale and towering over 30 feet high and stretching over 2 1/2 city blocks.
ya know how morrisons grave has become a shrine, this will be the same. puerto rican girls from all over will come by and drop off pantys :: sheds a tear:: God bless you J lo, and god bless your big sweet huge ass
An essay on Peck by Richard Corliss in the back page of today's Time.
I didn't know that Rock Hudson was the preferred choice for Atticus, nor that Peck was on Nixon's "Enemies" list.[/i]