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11 unusual facts about Gregory Peck


Battle of Pork Chop Hill

A 1959 movie, Pork Chop Hill, based on S.L.A. Marshall's account of the battle, presented a semi-fictional account of the engagement, in which Lt. Clemons was portrayed by Gregory Peck and Lt. Russell by Rip Torn.

Blood Alley

Wayne took over the lead after Gregory Peck turned the film down and Humphrey Bogart requested a large amount of money to assume the role.

Cornel Lucas

Cornel Lucas photographed many movies stars in the late forties and fifties including Marlene Dietrich, David Niven, Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Brigitte Bardot, Diana Dors (in a gondola in Venice).

Greta Kukkonen

Greta Peck (née Eine Matilda Kukkonen; January 25, 1911, Helsinki, Finland – January 19, 2008, Beverly Hills, California) was a Finnish-American real estate broker and first wife of Hollywood actor Gregory Peck.

Jackson Gillis

After returning to the United States, he performed with the Barter Theatre in Virginia, together with Gregory Peck.

James Leasor

Leasor's 1978 book, Boarding Party, about an incident from the Second World War that until that time was secret, was turned into a film, The Sea Wolves, starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven.

John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums

The film, containing both color and black-and-white footage, is narrated by Gregory Peck, and features extensive excerpts from President Kennedy's speeches, including color footage of his swearing in and inaugural address.

Richard Donner

The film was a violent and popular supernatural thriller that starred Gregory Peck as a wealthy American ambassador to England whose adopted son, born of a Jackal, turns out to be the Antichrist.

Robert Thorn

Robert Thorn is portrayed by both Gregory Peck in the 1976 version and Liev Schreiber in the 2006 version of The Omen movies in the same manner (a few minor details about their action changes).

Sonny Seiler

The firm's office, Armstrong House, as well as other locations in Savannah, were also featured in the original 1962 version of the film Cape Fear starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum.

Thomas Ashe

He was also a relative of Catherine Ashe, the paternal grandmother of American actor Gregory Peck, who emigrated to the United States in the 19th century.


Amazing Grace and Chuck

Amazing Grace and Chuck is a 1987 film starring Gregory Peck, Jamie Lee Curtis and William Petersen.

Calcutta Light Horse

The Hollywood film The Sea Wolves based on the book was made in 1980, with actors David Niven, Gregory Peck, Trevor Howard and Roger Moore.

Chasen's

Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Richard Nixon, James Stewart, Don Rickles, Milton Berle, Kirk Douglas and Ronald Reagan were still regulars, along with newer celebrities such as John Travolta, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, and Mel Gibson.

City Pier A

The pier was briefly featured in the 1965 thriller Mirage with Gregory Peck and Diane Baker.

Colleen Later

There she met Bud Later from Beverly Hills, California who had been an actor in many movies, mainly as a double or extra, working with many famous actors like Bing Crosby, Spencer Tracy, Gregory Peck, and Shirley Temple.

Conrad Yama

Yama's film credits include playing the title role, an unnamed Mao Zedong opposite Gregory Peck in The Chairman, as well as a number of small and supporting roles in film and made for TV movies.

Crumlin, Caerphilly

Even while demolition work was in progress, scenes for the film Arabesque which starred Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck were being shot on it.

Elsinore Theatre

It continued to raise money for its operational costs through fundraising in the community and was graced by appearances from many stars at the turn of the millennium, most notably by actors James Earl Jones and Gregory Peck.

Empire Ranch

Around the same time, the ranch was featured in several Western films starring many actors, such as John Wayne, Gregory Peck and Steve McQueen.

Family Theater

In its ten-year run, well-known actors and actresses, including James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Irene Dunne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Shirley Temple, Barbara Whiting Smith, Raymond Burr, Jane Wyatt, Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Gene Kelly, Kate Smith, William Shatner and Chuck Connors, appeared as announcers, narrators or stars.

For Earth Below

The unmistakable cover of the album is clearly visible in the film The Omen in the scene where Lee Remick tells Gregory Peck she wants an abortion.

Jerry London

He has also directed ten other miniseries, including the acclaimed The Scarlet and The Black with Gregory Peck, Ellis Island with Richard Burton, and Chiefs with Charlton Heston.

Josephine Griffin

These included: The House of the Arrow (1953), The Weak and the Wicked (1954), The Purple Plain (1954, as Gregory Peck's wife), The Crowded Day (1954), an episode of the television series Fabian of the Yard (1955), Room in the House (1955), The Extra Day (1956) and On Such a Night (short; 1956).

Lori Martin

In 1962, Martin won the role of Nancy Bowden in the film Cape Fear which also starred Gregory Peck, Polly Bergen, and Robert Mitchum.

R. C. Gorman

His famous friends and collectors of his work included Elizabeth Taylor, Danny DeVito, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barry Goldwater, Gregory Peck, Erma Bombeck, Lee Marvin, Jackie Onassis and fellow artist Andy Warhol, who silk-screened a portrait of Gorman that hung in a hall of his home surrounded by photos of Gorman's celebrity and other personal friends.

Ranald MacDougall

He saw greater potential across the street in Rockefeller Center, where he was hired as a page, working alongside Gregory Peck.

Reid's Palace Hotel

Famous guests over the years have included General Fulgencio Batista, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, David Lloyd George, deposed emperor Karl von Habsburg, Roger Moore, Gregory Peck, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, the missionary Albert Schweitzer, and dramatist George Bernard Shaw.

Robert Rietti

During the next 15 years most of Robert's acting was confined to TV and film with his most memorable performances in The Crooked Road (1965) with Robert Ryan and Stewart Granger, Hell Is Empty (1967) produced by his brother Ronald and co-starring French actress Martine Carol (who died before the end of shooting the film), The Italian Job (1969) and The Omen (1976) with Gregory Peck.

Stevens Center

It was renovated by the School of the Arts using $9.6 million in state bond money and opened on April 22, 1983 with a star-studded gala featuring the UNCSA symphony Orchestra with Leonard Bernstein conducting and Isaac Stern as soloist, and Gregory Peck as the master of ceremonies.

The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling

A 1966 Mirisch Productions World War I war film with the title starring Gregory Peck and Ian McKellen, directed by David Miller with a screenplay by Roald Dahl was abandoned after 5 weeks filming in Switzerland.

The Keys of the Kingdom

The book was made into a 1944 film The Keys of the Kingdom starring Gregory Peck as Father Francis Chisholm and Vincent Price as Anselm "Angus" Mealey.

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

The novel was made into a movie in 1956, starring Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones as Tom and Betsy Rath, with Fredric March, Lee J. Cobb, Keenan Wynn and Marisa Pavan in supporting roles.

University of North Carolina School of the Arts

The gala opening of the Stevens Center featured the school's symphony orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein, with Isaac Stern as soloist and Gregory Peck as the Master of Ceremonies.