Clean-cut, all-American actor with a stirring voice and a sincere squint, Eldred Gregory Peck (1916-2003) mostly made a career of playing
incorruptible pillars of virtue and wisdom. Best known for his Oscar-winning turn as Atticus Finch in
To Kill A Mockingbird (voted by the American Film Institute as the greatest hero in the history of American film, a week before Peck died), he played similarly admirable characters in films such as
The Yearling,
Gentleman's Agreement,
Twelve O'Clock High,
Other People's Money and
The Big Country. The Gregory Peck Law goes like this:
The frequency with which a character threatens Gregory Peck and his family is inversely proportional with their chances of surviving the movie.
He also liked to occasionally
play way against type, with roles such as bigoted rapist Lewt McCanles in
Duel In The Sun, or Josef Mengele in
The Boys From Brazil. In real life, he had a reputation as a gentleman and was a classical
Nice Guy - which is a key reason he enjoyed playing Atticus Finch so much.
His grandson, Ethan Peck, has a reoccurring role on
Gossip Girl.
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