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	Gregory Peck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born Eldred Gregory Peck in La Jolla, California, he was the son of Bernice Ayres (a Missouri-born convert to Catholicism) and Gregory Peck (a chemist/pharmacist of Irish-Catholic maternal descent and English paternal ancestry).
		Gregory's paternal grandmother, Catherine Ashe, was related to the Irish patriot Thomas Ashe, who took part in the Easter Rising in the year of Peck's birth and died while on a hunger strike in 1917.
		Peck's acting abilities were in high demand during World War II, since he was exempt from military service owing to a back injury suffered while receiving dance and movement lessons from Martha Graham as part of his acting training.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gregory_Peck (1542 words)

	Gregory Peck - MSN Encarta
		Peck enjoyed greater freedom in his choice of roles because, unlike most motion-picture actors of the time, he did not sign an exclusive contract with any individual motion-picture studio.
		Peck costarred with actor Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday (1953), appeared as a downed war pilot in The Purple Plain (1954), and had the role of Captain Ahab in Moby Dick (1956), which was directed by John Huston.
		Peck won the 1962 Academy Award for best actor for his performance in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), in which he played Atticus Finch, a small-town Southern lawyer of quiet courage and unimpeachable moral convictions.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579662/Gregory_Peck.html (370 words)

	American Masters . Gregory Peck \| PBS
		Eldred Gregory Peck was born in 1916, and spent most of his early life in and around La Jolla, California.
		For Peck, life as a father and as a public figure have been inseparable-; he was simultaneously a major voice against the Vietnam war, while remaining a patriotic supporter of his son who was fighting there.
		Gregory Peck passed away on June 12th, 2003, at the age of 87.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/peck_g.html (958 words)

	Tribute to Gregory Peck
		Gregory Peck became a star with his second feature film, unlike other survivors from the era like Kirk Douglas and Charlton Heston whose careers did begin in the later 1940's but whose real star periods were later.
		Peck's first big acting role on stage was in Moby Dick, which he said he was bad in though he caught the acting bug once and for all while by doing it.
		Peck is critically wounded on a safari and spends a night, which could be his last, reflecting on his life in flashbacks and searching for the meaning of life, which is tied up in the riddle of Mount Killimanjaro in Africa.
	www.ez-entertainment.net /features/Gregory_Peck.htm (2745 words)

	Gregory Peck Biography
		Born on April 5, 1916 in La Jolla, California, US While studying for pre-med, Peck got the acting bug and decided to change the focus of his studies.
		Peck's screen presence would display the qualities for which he would become well known.
		Peck would appear in Westerns with Duel in the Sun (1946), Yellow Sky (1948) and The Gunfighter (1950).
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/4400/gpeckbio.htm (503 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Gregory Peck - the 'decent man of Hollywood'
		Gregory Peck, described as "the most decent man in Hollywood", rose to stardom at a time when dignity and fair play made a hero.
		Peck was the most visible and successful of the actors after the Second World War who dominated American films until the mid-1960s.
		Peck majored in English at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was asked by the director of a campus theatre to appear in an adaptation of Moby Dick.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/13/wpeck13.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/06/13/ixportaltop.html (656 words)

	Oscar-winner Gregory Peck dies at 87 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Gregory Peck, who won an Academy Award for best actor for his portrayal of Atticus Finch in 1962's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and was nominated for an Oscar four other times, died Thursday in Los Angeles.
		Gregory Peck was the first chair of the AFI at its founding in 1967, and...
		Peck was born April 5, 1916, in La Jolla, Calif., and originally intended to become a physician, enrolling in pre-med studies at UC Berkeley.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1913515 (1533 words)

	Gregory Peck - Armeniapedia.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Born Eldred Gregory Peck in La Jolla, California, he was the son of a Missouri mother and a chemist called Gregory Peck, whose mother Catherine Ashe was an Irish immigrant from County Kerry.
		Peck was sent to a Roman Catholic military school in Los Angeles at the age of 10.
		Peck's acting abilities were in high demand during World War II, since he was exempt from military service due to a back injury suffered while receiving dance and movement lessons from Martha Graham as part of his acting training.
	www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Gregory_Peck (982 words)

	Movie star Gregory Peck dies at 87 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Gregory Peck, yesteryear Hollywood star who won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of upright lawyer Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird has died, CNN reported today.
		Born on April 5, 1916, in La Jolla, California, Eldred Gregory Peck, the only child of a San Diego druggist, became one of the biggest stars in Hollywood from the 1940s through the 1960s.
		Peck had a certain magnetism despite the fact that he was fairly wooden in his acting.
	www.rediff.com /movies/2003/jun/12peck.htm (425 words)

	Stars mourn Gregory Peck - smh.com.au
		Peck's greatest movie role, that of the right-minded southern lawyer Atticus Finch in 1962's racially-charged To Kill a Mockingbird - for which he won the best actor Oscar - was a focus of many of the speakers.
		Mahony said Peck had taken on the role of Finch, in which his character defended a fl man - played by Peters - unjustly accused of rape in the racially divided South, because of the importance of the movie's message.
		"Gregory Peck is one of the few who truly and deeply lived out all of the beatitudes," he said.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/06/17/1055815312146.html (659 words)

	AMCTV.com - Gregory Peck Biography
		The 6'3" Peck didn't set out to become an actor; he was pre-med at UC Berkeley when he was recruited by the director of the drama department, which was suffering from a shortage of tall men that year.
		Truly one of Hollywood's leading citizens, Peck had long been an active participant in the film community and worker for charitable institutions (serving as National Chairman of the American Cancer Society.) In 1969 he was presented with the nation's highest civilian award, The Presidential Medal of Freedom.
		Gregory Peck died on June 12, 2003 at the age of 87, leaving behind a body of work that will inspire many for years to come.
	www.amctv.com /article/0,,1107-1--0-9-EST,00.html (347 words)

	Library Foundation of Los Angeles - Ways to Help - Gregory Peck Literary Endowment Fund
		Peck to thank him for his tireless work on behalf of the Library and to recognize his unwavering commitment to preserving the tradition of oral reading of fine literature.
		Peck will be greatly missed, but his legacy will live on through the Endowment and through the efforts of his wife, Veronique, and his children, all of whom are committed to ensuring the future of his beloved reading series.
		Donors who give $10,000 or more to the Gregory Peck Literary Endowment Fund receive permanent recognition on floor tiles inscribed with their names in the Gregory Peck Donor Walk at the entrance to the Mark Taper Auditorium in the downtown Central Library.
	www.lfla.org /involve/peckendowment.php (552 words)

	The Ireland Funds : News : People - Gregory Peck
		Gregory Peck was born on April 5th, 1916 in La Jolla, California and grew up hearing stories of his father’s Irish childhood.
		Peck was best known for roles of dignified statesmen and people who followed a strong code of ethics: a magazine reporter confronting anti-Semitism in “Gentleman’s Agreement” (1947, a best picture Oscar winner) and a military officer in “The Guns of Navarone”; (1961).
		The mellifluous and sonorous voice of Gregory Peck was matched by the simple charm of his personality and that of his most elegant wife, Veronique.
	www.irlfunds.org /news/people/peck_04w.asp (681 words)

	Gregory Peck
		Peck was born in 1916, in La Jolla, Calif., as Eldred Gregory Peck.
		Peck headed East, where he studied acting and took acting work wherever he could get it, slowly developing a reputation in summer stock theater and small roles.
		Peck was exempt from service in World War II because of an old back injury.
	www.mst3kinfo.com /rolodex/Peck.html (618 words)

	NBC5.com - Entertainment - Legendary Actor Gregory Peck Dies
		Peck made the headlines as late as last week, when his "To Kill a Mockingbird" character, Atticus Finch (pictured, left), was named the top movie hero of all time by the American Film Institute.
		Peck, who was born Eldred Gregory Peck on April 5, 1916, in La Jolla, Calif., made his film debut in "Days of Glory" in 1944.
		Peck 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.
	www.nbc5.com /entertainment/2266331/detail.html (742 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Gregory Peck
		Peck fulfilled the same paternal function for countless Americans who grew up watching the weary but principled Atticus Finch fight for the rights of the poor, the marginalized, the voiceless in Robert Mulligan’s timeless adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
		No dummy, Peck knew well enough that fathers could easily become monsters — see his turn in The Omen for more on that — and that the line between good and evil (he matched up brilliantly with another icon, Sir Laurence Olivier, in Brazil) they continually reinscribed shifted back and forth all the time.
		Gregory Peck, in what may have been divine justice (if you believe in that sort of thing — I don’t) died comfortably in his sleep, old age finally having caught up with him.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /41/peck.htm (983 words)

	CNN.com - Oscar winner Gregory Peck dies at 87 - Jun. 13, 2003
		Actor Gregory Peck -- handsome, lanky, talented, versatile -- was a leading man's leading man. He has died at 87.
		Peck was best known for roles of dignified statesmen and people who followed a strong code of ethics: a magazine reporter confronting anti-Semitism in "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947, a best picture Oscar winner), a military officer in "The Guns of Navarone" (1961), the president of the United States in "Amazing Grace and Chuck" (1987).
		Peck's life was as dignified as his most notable film roles.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/12/obit.peck (1175 words)

	USATODAY.com - Gregory Peck's days of glory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Gregory Peck will always be identified with one role above all others during a six-decade career.
		Peck took the best-actor Academy Award for playing the principled Southern father/lawyer who defended a railroaded fl man in the classic 1962 screen adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
		Peck conducted his life with dignity, and we got used to seeing his characters — far more often than not — do the same on screen.
	www.usatoday.com /life/2003-06-12-peck-obit-usat_x.htm (835 words)

	Gregory Peck/Super Star, Best Actor - MovieActors.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Gregory Peck's defining role was as a small town lawyer in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, for which he won the Best Actor Oscar.
		Gregory Peck, late in his career played the role of a Nazi doctor in THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL, one of his rare villains.
		Gregory Peck is often the producer or co-producer of some of his films, including: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and CAPTAIN NEWMAN.
	www.movieactors.com /60stars/peck.htm (228 words)

	Gregory Peck @ Filmbug
		Born Eldred Gregory Peck in La Jolla, California, Peck was sent to a Roman Catholic military school in Los Angeles at age 10.
		Peck's acting abilities were in high demand during World War II, since he was exempt from military service due to a back injury suffered in college.
		Peck won the award for his fifth nomination, playing the role of lawyer Atticus Finch in the film adaptation of the Harper Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
	www.filmbug.com /db/1283 (511 words)

	JEWSWEEK - Remembering Gregory Peck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Gregory Peck's recent death at age 87 triggered many stories about the screen role that earned the actor his lone Academy Award for acting: Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird.
		Peck's portrayal of a principled lawyer who defends a fl man falsely accused of raping a white woman became a model for many real-life Southern attorneys and judges.
		Off-screen, Peck was a lifelong progressive in politics and a vigorous advocate of nuclear disarmament.
	www.jewsweek.com /bin/en.jsp?enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article^l469&enZone=Opinions&enVersion=0& (909 words)

	Katharine Hepburn, Gregory Peck and American filmmaking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Peck belonged to the group of leading men—including Burt Lancaster, John Garfield, Glenn Ford, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and William Holden (one might also mention Richard Widmark, Sterling Hayden and the slightly younger Montgomery Clift)—who dominated postwar American movies until the explosive entry of Marlon Brando in the early 1950s.
		Peck had the misfortune to appear in two of Hitchcock’s weaker efforts, Spellbound (1945) and The Paradine Case (1947), which he was not able to salvage.
		Peck is perhaps not capable of plumbing the depths of Ahab’s madness, but he brings to the character some much-needed humanity.
	wsws.org /articles/2003/jul2003/hepb-j16.shtml (4348 words)

	USATODAY.com - Oscar-winner Gregory Peck dies at age 87 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mitchum, the vengeful ex-con who terrorized Peck and his family in the original, played a sympathetic policeman in the new version, while Peck played the ex-con's vile lawyer in the remake.
		Born Eldred Gregory Peck on April 5, 1916, in La Jolla, Calif., Peck had a disjointed childhood after his parents divorced when he was 6.
		Peck appeared in five more plays his last year at college, then went to New York City, where he studied with Sanford Meisner and Martha Graham, did summer stock and made his Broadway debut with the lead in Emlyn Williams' Morning Star.
	www.usatoday.com /life/2003-06-12-peck-obit_x.htm (1023 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Gregory Peck
		From his very first year in Hollywood through five decades of making motion pictures, Gregory Peck has been to audiences around the world the quintessential Hollywood leading man: tall, dark, and handsome looks complemented by an overwhelming sense of moral and physical strength.
		Peck received four Oscar nominations within six years (The Keys of the Kingdom, The Yearling, Gentleman's Agreement, and Twelve O' Clock High) and then, in 1962, he starred in one of the best-loved films of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird, and finally won the award.
		Before long he was in the enviable and extremely rare position (for that time) of being able to pick his own roles, refusing to be tied down to a single studio or to sign a long-term contract.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3784&source_type=A (351 words)

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