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 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.
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- 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.
| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | Gentleman's Agreement (1947) AA Best Picture Win AA Best Actor Nom |
John Garfield & Dorothy McGuire |
10.50 | 334.7 | 334.70 | 12 | 75 | 08 / 03 | 99.7 | |
| 1 | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Actor Win |
Mary Badham & Robert Duvall |
22.90 | 358.1 | 358.10 | 7 | 90 | 08 / 03 | 99.7 | |
| 5 | Roman Holiday (1953) AA Best Picture Nom |
Audrey Hepburn & Directed by William Wyler |
9.10 | 178.0 | 178.00 | 22 | 89 | 10 / 03 | 99.5 | |
| 5 | Twelve O'Clock High (1949) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Actor Nom |
Dean Jagger & Hugh Marlowe |
9.20 | 250.5 | 250.50 | 13 | 86 | 04 / 02 | 99.4 | |
| 3 | The Guns of Navarone (1961) AA Best Picture Nom |
David Niven & Anthony Quinn |
37.10 | 589.8 | 1,134.20 | 3 | 84 | 07 / 01 | 99.3 | |
| 5 | The Yearling (1946) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Actor Nom |
Jane Wyman & Directed by Clarence Brown |
14.10 | 471.8 | 471.80 | 4 | 81 | 07 / 02 | 99.1 | |
| 6 | How the West Was Won (1962) AA Best Picture Nom |
Richard Widmark & James Stewart |
36.10 | 565.4 | 1,348.80 | 2 | 76 | 08 / 03 | 99.0 | |
| 10 | The Big Country (1958) | Charlton Heston & Burl Ives |
10.60 | 208.4 | 208.40 | 11 | 89 | 02 / 01 | 98.9 | |
| 7 | Spellbound (1945) AA Best Picture Nom |
Ingrid Bergman & Directed by Alfred Hitchcock |
12.50 | 431.0 | 431.00 | 8 | 78 | 06 / 01 | 98.8 | |
| 10 | The Omen (1976) | Lee Remick & David Warner |
86.50 | 477.2 | 477.20 | 5 | 76 | 02 / 01 | 97.0 | |
| 11 | Cape Fear (1991) | Robert DeNiro & Robert Mitchum |
79.10 | 220.7 | 508.80 | 12 | 77 | 02 / 00 | 97.0 | |
| 11 | The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) AA Best Actor Nom |
Vincent Price & Thomas Mitchell |
7.70 | 284.3 | 284.30 | 25 | 73 | 04 / 00 | 96.4 | |
| 15 | Yellow Sky (1948) | Richard Widmark & Anne Baxter |
7.40 | 216.4 | 216.40 | 28 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 95.9 | |
| 12 | The Valley of Decision (1945) | Greer Garson & Donald Crisp |
12.70 | 438.3 | 777.20 | 5 | 73 | 02 / 00 | 95.9 | |
| 13 | On the Beach (1959) | Fred Astaire & Anthony Perkins |
13.60 | 267.2 | 432.80 | 17 | 71 | 02 / 00 | 95.6 | |
| 14 | Duel in the Sun (1946) | Jennifer Jones & Joseph Cotten |
17.80 | 597.9 | 597.90 | 2 | 70 | 02 / 00 | 95.2 | |
| 17 | Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) | Virginia Mayo | 7.40 | 174.4 | 358.10 | 24 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 95.1 | |
| 16 | Moby Dick (1956) | Richard Basehart & Directed by John Huston |
13.70 | 292.3 | 292.30 | 15 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 94.5 | |
| 17 | The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) | Susan Hayward & Ava Gardner |
18.10 | 385.7 | 385.70 | 3 | 64 | 02 / 00 | 93.5 | |
| 21 | The Gunfighter (1950) | Helen Westcott & Karl Malden |
5.60 | 136.4 | 136.40 | 48 | 84 | 01 / 00 | 93.2 | |
| 19 | The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) | Jennifer Jones & Fredric March |
12.40 | 265.5 | 265.50 | 18 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 92.2 | |
| 23 | Night People (1954) | Broderick Crawford & Anita Björk |
6.10 | 156.9 | 156.90 | 53 | 74 | 01 / 00 | 91.9 | |
| 24 | Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) | Robert Duvall & Bobby Darin |
11.40 | 156.1 | 156.10 | 24 | 71 | 03 / 00 | 91.5 | |
| 25 | The Paradine Case (1947) | Charles Laughton & Directed by Alfred Hitchcock |
5.90 | 188.8 | 188.80 | 54 | 62 | 01 / 00 | 91.2 | |
| 26 | The Macomber Affair (1947) | Joan Bennett & Robert Preston |
4.30 | 137.3 | 137.30 | 80 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 89.6 | |
| 26 | David and Bathsheba (1951) | Susan Hayward & Raymond Massey |
13.50 | 316.9 | 316.90 | 5 | 50 | 05 / 00 | 89.5 | |
| 27 | Designing Woman (1957) | Lauren Bacall & Dolores Gray |
6.40 | 134.9 | 229.30 | 35 | 69 | 01 / 01 | 88.2 | |
| 28 | The World in His Arms (1952) | Anthony Quinn & Ann Blyth |
8.20 | 175.1 | 175.10 | 19 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 86.9 | |
| 28 | Cape Fear (1962) | Robert Mitchum & Martin Balsam |
5.00 | 78.3 | 78.30 | 51 | 85 | 00 / 00 | 86.7 | |
| 29 | The Great Sinner (1949) | Ava Gardner & Melvyn Douglas |
5.60 | 151.8 | 151.80 | 44 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 86.6 | |
| 32 | MacArthur (1977) | Dan O'Herlihy & Ed Flanders |
26.20 | 138.0 | 138.00 | 32 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 85.7 | |
| 30 | The Bravados (1958) | Joan Collins & Stephen Boyd |
6.30 | 123.1 | 123.10 | 40 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 85.7 | |
| 33 | Arabesque (1966) | Sophia Loren & Alan Badel |
10.00 | 106.8 | 106.80 | 32 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 82.6 | |
| 34 | The Boys from Brazil (1978) | Laurence Olivier & James Mason |
22.60 | 113.4 | 113.40 | 27 | 62 | 03 / 00 | 82.4 | |
| 36 | Only the Vailiant (1951) | Ward Bond & Gig Young |
5.70 | 134.3 | 134.30 | 44 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 80.0 | |
| 35 | Behold a Pale Horse (1964) | Omar Sharif & Anthony Quinn |
5.10 | 64.3 | 64.30 | 56 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 78.7 | |
| 38 | The Purple Plain (1954) | Bernard Lee & Win Min Than |
3.70 | 94.9 | 94.90 | 88 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 77.6 | |
| 39 | Marooned (1969) | Gene Hackman & Richard Crenna |
12.40 | 102.8 | 102.80 | 25 | 54 | 03 / 01 | 76.7 | |
| 40 | Pork Chop Hill (1959) | Rip Torn & Harry Guardino |
5.60 | 109.1 | 109.10 | 44 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 75.7 | |
| 38 | Mirage (1965) | Walter Matthau & Diane Baker |
4.10 | 46.7 | 46.70 | 67 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 75.6 | |
| 41 | Man with a Million (1954) | Ronald Squire & Jane Griffiths |
2.30 | 58.8 | 58.80 | 114 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 68.8 | |
| 42 | The Stalking Moon (1968) | Eva Marie Saint & Robert Forster |
7.40 | 66.6 | 66.60 | 50 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 67.2 | |
| 44 | MacKenna's Gold (1969) | Edward G. Robinson & Omar Sharif |
8.90 | 73.3 | 73.30 | 31 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 65.6 | |
| 43 | Days of Glory (1944) | Alan Reed & Tamara Toumanova |
1.60 | 57.6 | 93.70 | 126 | 61 | 01 / 00 | 65.5 | |
| 45 | The Chairman (1969) | Anne Heywood & Arthur Hill |
7.10 | 59.1 | 59.10 | 38 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 54.5 | |
| 46 | Other People's Money (1991) | Penelope Ann Miller & Danny DeVito |
25.70 | 71.7 | 71.70 | 49 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 52.4 | |
| 47 | Beloved Infidel (1959) | Deborah Kerr & Eddie Albert |
2.20 | 43.1 | 43.10 | 100 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 46.0 | |
| 48 | Shoot Out (1971) | Patricia Quinn & Robert F. Lyons |
1.80 | 12.8 | 12.80 | 129 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 18.3 | |
| 49 | I Walk The Line (1970) | Tuesday Weld & Estelle Parsons |
1.00 | 7.6 | 7.60 | 145 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 15.3 | |
| 50 | Old Gringo (1989) | Jane Fonda & Jimmy Smits |
3.60 | 10.6 | 10.60 | 122 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 14.0 | |
| 51 | Billy Two Hats (1974) | Jack Warden & Desi Arnaz Jr. |
1.20 | 7.5 | 7.50 | 129 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 13.9 | |
| 52 | The Sea Wolves (1980) | Roger Moore & David Niven |
0.20 | 1.0 | 1.00 | 175 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 12.4 | |
| 53 | Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987) | Jamie Lee Curtis & William L. Petersen |
4.00 | 12.0 | 12.00 | 115 | 34 | 00 / 00 | 3.1 |
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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I grew up at my mothers knee on hot summer nights watching what was called then ‘The Late Movie.’ By around the age of 12 I was hooked. The first Gregory Peck movie I remember seeing was The Keys of The Kingdom. I think it was then that I fell in love with him. I was a Catholic school girl and he was a good Priest. What was not to love? Roman Holiday was my young girls princess story, albeit without the happy ending. When I became older I understood the ending and grew to appreciate it. Then came the one I couldn’t get a grip on…The Yearling. I cried buckets for Jody and still do. Of course the westerns followed interspersed with some comedy…Designing Women and my favorite funny one, Dr. Newman MD. I still revisit all of these films and it is like wrapping myself in my childhood blanket sharing the sofa with my mom. Yes, Gregory Peck is (for me) the ideal man.
Hey Jane. Thanks for sharing your memory of hot summer nights watching The Late Movie. Peck got off to a great start with The Keys of the Kingdom….and amazingly he never really had a terrible string of bad movies in his career. Not many people can make that claim. Roman Holiday is a classic. The Yearling is a tear jerker…no doubt about that. I have not seen Designing Women…I will have to check that one out. Newman M.D. was good….not at all what I was expecting. I appreciate your comment….it was well thought out and very interesting.
My favorites are ‘Roman Holiday’ and ‘Arabesque’.
Hey Vincente M….Roman Holiday is an all-time classic….somehow I have manged not to see Arabesque. Thanks for the comment.
Lauren Bacall’s name in the costar column beside Designing Woman isn’t in blue to link.
Top 8 films Best Picture Nominees. Great new formula
Hey Flora….good catch….still working on some issues with the database….but I like the direction it is going. Added the link for Bacall, Jagger and Huston. His 8 Best Picture nominee movies is very high when looking at all of the actors in the database….so far only Jack Nicholson and Spencer Tracy have more Best Picture Oscar nominated films.
Hi, Bruce!
Wow, thanks for calling the facts page mine-yes, I am absolutely in love with My Darling Greg. That is what I have always called him even though I didn’t meet him.
I did belong to an official Gregory Peck online fan club. The founder had met Peck at one of his speeches. (I noticed you left out the tragic death of his first born. I know you prefer not to include tragedy in your facts and focus on other things.) Because of this, when we decided to make a birthday book when he turned 85, we were able to get it directly to him. I was too devastated when he died to take part in a tribute book that the club did for his widow.
In the last few years of his life, I was unable to watch anything that was even remotely sentimental. That is why I still have not seen the TV movie. His real life daughter playing the daughter made it too sad to watch then. I haven’t found the movie since. Gradually as time has gone on, I have been able to watch all his genres again.
The new formula gives a better idea of what his top 10 movies were.
I recently added Only the Valiant to my seen films. I had to watch it on youtube to see it. It was okay, but the other actors had more to do.
I still haven’t seen Grace and Chuck as his part is a cameo and otherwise the film doesn’t interest me.
I love this page!
Thanks for making this your first page to be overhauled and I am honoured you have included me on this page.
Flora
Hey Flora….well My Darling Greg was the perfect one to start with…as his movie career lasted so long covering 5 decades….that way I could see how the new box office calculations looked over many years. Ok I guess it really would have been perfect if his career started in 1915 and was still going in 2016…lol.
Not sure how many years ago you came up with those interesting facts….all I did was copy and paste….so you deserve by the byline. This page started out at HubPages….moved to Cogerson Movie Score and now lives at UMR.com. Thinking I did not bring over all the comments for some reason. I am sure Peck got more comments in the past.
That is cool about his birthday book….sad about his first born. I had the same thing going on with Paul Newman when he first passed away. I used to watch Butch and Sundance at least once a year….last year was the first time I re-watched that one since his passing…..I just thought watching it too soon….would be sad….and ruin the movie for one. Good news was I enjoyed it very very much.
I like the new formula too….I played around with it many times….each time the box office % went down and the review % went up. On this page The Big Country was the big winner moving from 18th on the old way to 10th the new way. Citizen Kane had a nice jump to …..as it went from 1210th to 889th overall….that was 321 spots better.
Amazing Grace and Chuck was actually on of my Top Films of All-Time…list was made in 1988 when I was 21. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/my-top-50-movies-compiled-in-1988/ I have changed my mind about its greatness….but Peck is good as the President.
Thanks again for your contribution to this page….and all of your comments on all the other pages.
About Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner. Gregory and Veronique Peck took Ava’s housekeeper Carmen and her beloved Corgi DOG Morgan as Miss Ava Gardner’s request.
Very cool information…thanks for sharing…A.M. Faccio
yes, it was her dog, not her cat
Thanks for the correction.