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

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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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  1. I am not a big fan of western movies. It seemed like 8 of 10 movies was a western, I just got sick of them for a long time. However any western starring Gregory Peck I did enjoy. The Gunfighter sad but true, The Big Country, I liked how Peck fought Heston,another favorite of mine, but one 0n one, not in front of an audience.

    I didn’t know Duel at Diablo was the top grossing western, I did hear it was one of the most expensive western films ever. The film crew actually brought in a fully grown tree and transplanted it on set. The investment obviously payed off. Pecks villian was very good.

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    1. Hey Ruff Ryder….you have to admit….Peck put together a pretty impressive collection off westerns…the Peck/Heston fight is an all time classic

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  2. Gregory Peck’s always been one of my favorite actors from that age of film, with some favorites being “To Kill a Mockingbird” (of course) and “Roman Holiday.” Reading your hub, it’s clear to me I have a lot more of his films to see! Thanks for the great overview of his career.

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    1. Hey PaintedSeahorse….glad my movie page has you motivated to see more Peck pages….I like that…lol.

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  3. Can’t believe I missed this one Conanson, one of the all time great Hollywood actors.

    Mockingbird no.1 no surprises there, great film. Atticus Finch was voted no.1 movie hero by the AFI with Indiana Jones at no.2 and James Bond no.3.

    http://www.afi.com/100years/handv.aspx

    I would have put Bond at no.1 🙂

    From your list I count 29 films I’ve seen, not bad.

    Mackenna’s Gold is a guilty pleasure, a bonkers mad western, highly recommended.

    This is the bit where I complain about something – The Yearling is far too high on the list Bruce, so many great films below that, can you place it lower when no one’s looking? 🙂

    Watched Guns of Navarone recently, a bit creaky but still holds up. Peck trying to speak Greek always makes me laugh.

    Boys from Brazil is another film I’ve watched many times, one of the rare times Peck played evil and you can’t get much more evil than Josef Mengele.

    The Omen is one of my favourite horror films and I think I’ve included it on my 100 favourite movies list.

    Enjoyed the page and Flora’s trivia, well done.

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    1. Hey Steve….better late than never…..29 Peck movies seen….let me see where I am at….31….I wonder where you are at now? Thanks for the link…very interesting stuff.

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  4. @Cogerson…”Guns of Navarone”, “To Kill A Mockingbird”, “The Yearling”, “Twelve O’Clock High”, “Roman Holiday”, “Cape Fear”, “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit”, “The Bravados” — all on my shelves, and more.

    He said himself, his favorite role of his career was Atticus Finch. Like Heston, he was one of Hollywood’s old faithfuls.

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  5. One of the reasons he is underappreciated today is because everything looks so natural when he is acting. He got his break because he was 4f during the war-he had broken the disks in his back at university. Because of his looks, height and 4f status he was in high demand during WWII. He was the first actor to have a non-exclusive contract. In another era, he couldn’t have done this, but marketable leading me were scarce. This contract plan allowed him to work at all of the major studios. I do not normally watch war films and westerns, but I will watch them with my favourite actors. And it is impossible to truly consider yourself a Peck fan, and not watch these two genres-together they represent a huge percentage of his career.

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    1. Thanks for the detailed information….seems that I have lost your tally count for his movies….but I bet it is in the 50s.

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      1. Thanks for the byline, Cogerson.

        As I’ve said before somewhere else, there are only 5 titles I’ve not scene including his TV movie The Portrait, and that isn’t included here. Of the titles you listed, I’ve seen 94% of his movies.n 91%. There are some TV guest spots I haven’t seen. They are harder to find.

        I have Behold a Pale Horse and Night People taped and ready for me when I can be assured of quiet (?if?).

        I love to Kill A Mockingbird, of course, but you may be surprised to hear my second favourite is The Guns of Navarone. It’s lot of fun..a fantasy war film with lots of humour. My favourite lines:

        Niven: Sir, I’ve inspected this boat, and I think you ought to know that I can’t swim.

        Peck: I’ll keep that in mind.

        When Peck turned 85, my Gregory Peck fan club sent him a book of letters we wrote along with our pictures. He did indeed get the book We used stationary to reflect our personality. Mine was music notes. We talked about three films. I wrote about about mockingbird, Navarone and Designing Woman, one of the few chances this man who was naturally funny got to show it on screen.

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