Gregory Peck Movies

Want to know the best Gregory Peck movies?  How about the worst Gregory Peck movies?  Curious about Gregory Peck’s box office grosses or which Gregory Peck movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Gregory Peck movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

A couple of years ago, I decided to watch all the movies that had won Academy Awards® for the major categories. As I worked my way through the Oscar® winners from the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, I started to notice that many of these movies starred Gregory Peck.  Movies like Roman Holiday (Audrey Hepburn Best Actress), Twelve O’Clock High (Dean Jagger Best Supporting Actor), The Big Country (Burl Ives Best Supporting Actor), A Gentleman’s Agreement (Best Picture of the Year and Elia Kazan Best Director), and of course To Kill A Mockingbird (Gregory Peck Best Actor). He also was the star in the following Academy Award® Best Picture nominated movies: 1945 Spellbound, 1946 The Yearling, 1949 Twelve O’Clock High, 1953 Roman Holiday, 1961 The Guns of Navarone , and two movies in 1962 How the West Was Won and To Kill A Mockingbird. After seeing all of this great movies I came to the conclusion that Gregory Peck is one of the most under appreciated actors.

His IMDb page shows 58 acting credits from 1944-1998. This page will rank 53 Gregory Peck movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters were not included in the rankings.

Gregory Peck in 1947's Gentleman's Agreement
Gregory Peck in 1947’s Gentleman’s Agreement

Gregory Peck Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Gregory Peck Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Gregory Peck movies by co-stars of his movies.
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  • Sort Gregory Peck movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Gregory Peck movie received.
  • Sort Gregory Peck movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
  • Use the search and sort buttons to make this a very interactive table. Blue link of title includes a trailer for that movie.
Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in 1953's Roman Holiday
Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in 1953’s Roman Holiday

Flora Breen Robison’s Possibly Interesting Facts About Gregory Peck.

1. Gregory Peck was born Eldred Gregory Peck. His mother named him Gregory after his father and picked Eldred out of a phone book. He only used the name at school. Everyone called him Greg.

2. Gregory Peck was nominated 5 times for an Oscar® and 5 times for a Golden Globe® for his movie roles. For his role as Atticus Finch in 1963’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Peck won his only Oscar® and only Golden Globe®.

3. While attending the University of California-Berkeley, Peck broke discs in his back while stretching in dance class…though the press would later called it a rowing accident to sound more manly. That kept him out of WWII.

4. Gregory Peck was the first Hollywood actor to have a non-exclusive contract with a studio. Because he was 4-F from the war and several actors were off fighting, Peck was in a position to drive hard bargains. He made movies with every major and minor studio during the studio system.

5. Gregory Peck broke his ankle during the filming of 1948’s Yellow Sky when his horse bolted and fell on him. In his haste to return to filming as quickly as possible, the break never healed properly he limped forever afterwards. When watching the film(which was not filmed in sequence)-you can see scenes where Peck limps and doesn’t limp with no logic to the story.

6. When Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall were filming 1957’s Designing Woman, Bacall’s husband Humphrey Bogart passed away. It was Gregory Peck who escorted Bacall to her husband’s funeral.

7. Gregory Peck was married two times in his life. His first marriage was to Greta Kukkonen from 1942-1955. The marriage produced three sons. His second marriage was to Veronique Passani from 1955 until Peck’s death. That marriage produced a son and a daughter. Peck’s daughter Cecilia, played his daughter in the TV movie The Portrait. In the film Cecilia plays an artist determined to paint her parents’ portrait before they die. Peck was reunited with Lauren Bacall as his co-star 36 years after making Designing Woman in 1957.

8. Gregory Peck served many terms on many Board of Directors of several Hollywood associations. These include: He was the first president of the American Film Institute. He was president of the Academy of Motion Pictures from 1967-1970. When Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1967 Peck had the Oscars® postponed.

9. When longtime friend Ava Gardner passed away in 1990. Gregory Peck took in Ava Gardner’s housekeeper and cat.

10.  Check out Gregory Peck’s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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  2. Given MacLean’s undoubted affinity with action yarns the MacLean video must have been a special labour of love for Steve. Anyway it pleased me personally to the tune of a 98% rating and viewing it [3 times already] was a perfect way to start the weekend. Best STILLS/LOBBY CARDS in my view are:

    1/ River of Death
    2/ Caravan to Vaccares
    3/2 for Golden Rendezvous – wow!
    4/Bear Island

    5/ALL for Guns of Navarone-MacLean’s greatest big screen commercial blockbuster credited with an adjusted domestic Cogerson gross of approx $460 million – wow!

    6/ When Eight Bells Toll
    7/ two for The Secret Ways
    8/ALL for Force 10
    9/ 2 for Satan Bug
    10/Death Train
    11/2 for Breakheart Pass
    12/ALL for Ice Station Zebra
    13/ALL for Where Eagles Dare

    As always Steve’s notes that are included the coverage of the movies are very helpful and illuminating. For example I found most interesting the reference to Widmark’s wife’s involvement with The Secret Ways.

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    1. STEVE

      Thanks for the raised links. Ah Jim McKay, what a hero! – and

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  4. Gregory was a phenomenal actor. The stats can say one thing but his work speaks in another way. The characters he brought to life, the hard work to study, to understand the other roles, made any film he made much more greater. Also consider the generations since Gregory and after him, some people don’t understand the value of classic film, the story lines and the portray of characters that sometimes went in depth, dark and mysterious. As an Admirer of Gregory, He cemented himself certainly as Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird, but his work ethic and the man he was spoke volumes to what Hollywood needed. He never let his star status affect the world around him and remained a kind spirit even out of character, he was “A Gentleman of the Cinema”.

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    1. Hey Lauren T. Ritchie…..great comment on Mr. Gregory Peck. I agree with your comment 100%. I especially like the title of “A Gentleman of the Cinema”. That is a great title for him. Good feedback…it is greatly appreciated.

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  5. Great to see Gregory Peck’s page updated to include the chronological table and more trailers and done in the same month as his birthday. I recently re-watched The Great Sinner. More of his films are airing this week on TCM.

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