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Gregory Peck- A Charmed Life

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by Lynn Haney

1946

  Duel in the Sun

  Narrated by Orson Welles. Gregory Peck (Lewt McCanles), Joseph Cotton, Jennifer Jones, Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston.

  Vanguard/Selznick Releasing Organization

  Producer: David O Selznick.

  Director: King Vidor.

  Screenplay: David O Selznick. Suggested by the novel by Niven Busch.

  Cinematography by Lee Garmes, Hal Rosson and Ray Rennahan.

  138 minutes. Color.

  1947

  The Macomber Affair

  Gregory Peck (Robert Wilson), Robert Preston, Joan Bennett, Reginald Denny, Earl Smith, Jean Gillie.

  United Artists

  Producers: Benedict Bogeaus and Casey Robinson.

  Director: Zoltan Korda.

  Screenplay: Casey Robinson and Seymour Bennett from the story ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’ by Ernest Hemingway. Adaptation: Seymour Bennett, Frank Arnold. Cinematography by Karl Strauss.

  89 minutes. Black and white.

  1947

  Gentleman’s Agreement

  Gregory Peck (Phil Green), Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere, June Havoc, Albert Dekker, Jane Wyatt, Dean Stockwell, Nicholas Joy, Sam Jaffe.

  Twentieth Century Fox

  Producer: Darryl F Zanuck.

  Director: Elia Kazan.

  Screenplay: Moss Hart, from the novel by Laura Z Hobson.

  Cinematography by Arthur Miller.

  118 minutes. Black and white.

  1947

  The Paradine Case

  Gregory Peck (Anthony Keane), Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ann Todd, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan, Alida Valli, Leo G Carroll.

  Vanguard/Selznick Releasing Organization

  Producer: David O Selznick.

  Director: Alfred Hitchcock.

  Screenplay: David O Selznick, from the novel by Robert Hichens.

  Cinematography by Lee Garmes.

  132 minutes. Black and white.

  1949

  Yellow Sky

  Gregory Peck (Stretch), John Russell, Richard Widmark, Charles Kemper, Henry Morgan, Robert Adler, Anne Baxter.

  Twentieth Century Fox

  Producer: Lamar Trotti.

  Director: William A Wellman.

  Screenplay: Lamar Trotti. Based on a story by W R Burnett.

  Cinematography by Joe MacDonald.

  98 minutes. Black and white.

  1949

  The Great Sinner

  Gregory Peck (Feodor ‘Fedja’ Dostoyevsky), Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, Ethel Barrymore, Frank Morgan.

  MGM

  Producer: Gottfried Reinhardt.

  Director: Robert Siodmak.

  Screenplay: Ladislas Fudor and Christopher Isherwood, from a story by Fodor and Rene Fulop-Miller. Cinematography by George Foley.

  110 minutes. Black and white.

  1950

  Twelve O’Clock High

  Gregory Peck (General Frank Savage), Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Dean Jagger, Millard Mitchell, Robert Arthur.

  Twentieth Century Fox

  Producer: Darryl F Zanuck.

  Director: Henry King.

  Screenplay: Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay Jr, from their novel.

  Cinematography by Leon Shamroy.

  132 minutes. Black and white.

  1950

  The Gunfighter

  Gregory Peck (Jimmie Ringo), Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell, Jean Parker, Karl Malden, Skip Homeier, Richard Jaeckel.

  Twentieth Century Fox

  Producer: Nunnally Johnson.

  Director: Henry King.

  Screenplay: William Bowers and William Sellers, from a story by William Bowers and Andre de Toth. Cinematography by Arthur Miller.

  84 minutes. Black and white.

  1951

  Only the Valiant

  Gregory Peck (Captain Richard Lance), Barbara Payton, Ward Bond, Gig Young, Lon Chaney Jr, Neville Brand, Jeff Corey, Steve Brodie, Warner Anderson, Michael Ansara.

  Warner Bros

  Producer: William Cagney.

  Director: Gordon Douglas.

  Screenplay: Edmund H North and Harry Brown, from the novel by Charles Marquis Warren. Cinematography by Lionel Linden.

  105 minutes. Black and white.

  1951

  David and Bathsheba

  Gregory Peck (King David), Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore, James Robertson Justice, Jayne Meadows.

  Twentieth Century Fox

  Producer: Darryl F Zanuck.

  Director: Henry King.

  Screenplay: Philip Dunne. Cinematography by Leon Shamroy.

  116 minutes. Color.

  1951

  Captain Horatio Hornblower

  Gregory Peck (Captain Horatio Hornblower), Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, James Robertson Justice, Moultrie Kelsall, Terrence Morgan, Richard Hearne, James Kenney, Ingeborg Wells.

  Warner Bros

  Producer: Gerry Mitchell.

  Director: Raoul Walsh.

  Screenplay: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts and Aeneas MacKenzie from the novels Ship of the Line, Beat to Quarters, and Flying Colors by C S Forester.

  Cinematography by Guy Green.

  117 minutes. Color.

  1952

  The Snows of Kilimanjaro

  Gregory Peck (Harry Street), Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegard Knef, Leo G Carroll, Torin Thatcher, Ava Norring, Helene Stanley.

  Twentieth Century Fox

  Producer: Darryl F Zanuck.

  Director: Henry King.

  Screenplay: Casey Robinson, from a story by Ernest Hemingway.

  Cinematography by Leon Shamroy.

  117 minutes. Color.

  1952

  The World in His Arms

  Gregory Peck (Jonathan Clark), Ann Blyth, Anthony Quinn, John McIntire, Andrea King, Carl Esmond, Eugenie Leontovich.

  Universal-International

  Producer: Aaron Rosenberg.

  Director: Raoul Walsh.

  Screenplay: Borden Chase, from the novel by Rex Beach.

  Cinematography by Russell Metty.

  104 minutes. Color.

  1953

  Roman Holiday

  Gregory Peck (Joe Bradley), Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power, Laura Solari, Harcourt Williams.

  Paramount

  Producer: William Wyler.

  Director: William Wyler.

  Screenplay: Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter and John Dighton, from a story by Ian McLellan Hunter.

  Cinematography by Franz F Planer and Henri Alekan.

  119 minutes. Black and white.

  1954

  Night People

  Gregory Peck (Colonel Steve Van Dyke), Broderick Crawford, Anita Bjork, Rita Gam, Walter Abel, Buddy Ebsen, Hugh McDermott.

  Twentieth Century Fox

  Producer: Nunnally Johnson.

  Director: Nunnally Johnson.

  Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson, from a story by Jed Harris and Thomas Reed.

  Cinematography by Charles G Clarke.

  93 minutes. Color.

  1954

  Man with a Million (The Million Pound Note in the UK)

  Man with a Million (The Million Pound Note in the UK)

  Gregory Peck (Henry Adams), Jane Griffiths, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell,

  Reginald Beckwith, Hartley Power, A E Matthews, Wilfred Hyde-White.

  J Arthur Rank Organization/United Artists

  Producer: John Bryan.

  Director: Ronald Neame.

  Screenplay: Jill Craigie, from the story ‘The Million Pound Bank Note’ by Mark Twain.

  Cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth.

  92 minutes. Color.

  1955

  The Purple Plain

  Gregory Peck (Squadron Leader Bill Forrester), Win Min Than, Bernard

  Lee, Maurice Denham, Ram Gopal, Brenda De Banzie, Lyndon Brook, Anthony Bushell.

  J Arthur Rank Organization/United Artists<
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  Producer: John Bryan.

  Director: Robert Parrish.

  Screenplay: Eric Ambler, from the novel by H E Bates.

  Cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth.

  100 minutes. Color.

  1956

  The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

  Gregory Peck (Tom Rath), Jennifer Jones, Fredric March, Marisa Pavan,

  Lee J Cobb, Ann Harding, Keenan Wynn, Gene Lockhart, Gigi Perreau, Arthur O’Connell.

  Twentieth Century Fox

  Producer: Darryl F Zanuck.

  Director: Nunnally Johnson.

  Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson, from the novel by Sloan Wilson.

  Cinematography by Charles G Clarke.

  153 minutes. Color.

  1956

  Moby Dick

  Gregory Peck (Captain Ahab), Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Orson Welles, James Robertson Justice, Harry Andrews, Bernard Miles, Noel Purcell, Fredrich Ledebur.

  Moulin/Warner Bros

  Producer: John Huston.

  Director: John Huston.

  Screenplay: Ray Bradbury and John Huston, from the novel by Herman Melville.

  Cinematography by Oswald Morris.

  116 minutes. Color.

  1957

  Designing Woman

  Gregory Peck (Mike Hagen), Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray, Sam Levene, Tom Helmore, Mickey Shaughnessy, Jesse White, Chuck Connors.

  MGM Producer: Dore Schary.

  Director: Vincente Minnelli.

  Screenplay: George Wells, from a suggestion by Helen Rose.

  Cinematography by John Alton.

  117 minutes. Color.

  1958

  The Bravados

  Gregory Peck (Jim Douglas), Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva, Kathleen Gallant, Barry Coe, Lee Van Cleef.

  Twentieth Century Fox

  Producer: Herbert B Swope Jr.

  Director: Henry King.

  Screenplay: Screenplay by Philip Yordan, from the novel by Frank O’Rourke.

  Cinematography by Leon Shamroy.

  99 minutes. Color.

  1958

  The Big Country

  Gregory Peck (James McKay), Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford, Alfonso Bedoya, Chuck Connors, Chuck Hayward, Buff Brady.

  United Artists

  Producers: William Wyler and Gregory Peck.

  Director: William Wyler.

  Screenplay: James R Webb, Sy Bartlett, and Robert Wyler, from the novel by Donald Hamilton.

  Cinematography by Franz Planer.

  166 minutes. Color.

  1959

  Pork Chop Hill

  Gregory Peck (Lieutenant Joe Clemons), Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard, James Edwards, Bob Steele, George Shibata, Woody Strode, Norman Fell, Robert Blake, Biff Elliot, Barry Atwater.

  Melville/United Artists

  Producer: Sy Bartlett.

  Director: Lewis Milestone.

  Screenplay: James R Webb, from the book Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Korea, Spring 1953 by Brigadier General S L A Marshall.

  Cinematography by Sam Leavitt.

  97 minutes. Black and white.

  1959

  Beloved Infidel

  Gregory Peck (F Scott Fitzgerald), Deborah Kerr, Eddie Albert, Philip Ober, Herbert Rudley, John Sutton, Karin Booth, Ken Scott, Buck Class.

  Twentieth Century Fox

  Producer: Jerry Wald.

  Director: Henry King.

  Screenplay: Sy Bartlett, from the book by Sheilah Graham and Gerald Frank.

  Cinematography by Leon Shamroy.

  123 minutes. Color.

  1959

  On the Beach

  Gregory Peck (Dwight Towers), Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson, John Tate, Lola Brooks, Guy Doleman, John Meillon, Harp McGuire, Lou Vernon.

  United Artists

  Producer: Stanley Kramer.

  Director: Stanley Kramer.

  Screenplay: John Paxton, from the novel by Nevil Shute.

  Cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno.

  134 minutes. Black and white.

  1961

  The Guns of Navarone

  Gregory Peck (Captain Keith Mallory), David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, James Darren, Anthony Quayle, Irene Papas, Gia Scala.

  Highroad/Columbia

  Producer: Carl Foreman.

  Director: J Lee Thompson.

  Screenplay: Carl Foreman, from the novel by Alistair MacLean.

  Cinematography by Oswald Morris.

  157 minutes. Color.

  1962

  Cape Fear

  Gregory Peck (Sam Bowden), Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam, Jack Kruschen, Telly Savalas, Barrie Chase.

  Melville/Talbot/Universal-International

  Producer: Sy Bartlett.

  Director: J Lee Thompson.

  Screenplay: James R Webb, from the novel The Executioners by John D MacDonald.

  Cinematography by Sam Leavitt.

  105 minutes. Black and white.

  1962

  To Kill a Mockingbird

  Gregory Peck (Atticus Finch), Mary Badham, Philip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Ruth White, Brock Peters, Estelle Evans, Paul Fix.

  Pakula-Mulligan/Brentwood/Universal

  Producer: Alan J Pakula.

  Director: Robert Mulligan.

  Screenplay: Horton Foote, from the novel by Harper Lee.

  Cinematography by Russell Harlan.

  129 minutes. Black and white.

  1963

  How the West Was Won

  Gregory Peck (Cleve Van Valen), [same episode] Debbie Reynolds, Robert Preston, Thelma Ritter. Narrated by Spencer Tracy.

  MGM/Cinerama

  Producer: Bernard Smith.

  Directors: Henry Hathaway (‘The River’, ‘The Plains’, ‘The Outlaws’), John Ford (‘The Civil War’), and George Marshall (‘The Railroad’).

  Screenplay: James R Webb and (uncredited) John Gay. From the Life magazine series How the West Was Won.

  Cinematography by William H Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles Lang Jr, and Joseph La Shelle.

  155 minutes. Color.

  1963

  Captain Newman, M.D.

  Gregory Peck (Captain Josiah Newman), Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert, Bobby Darin, James Gregory, Robert Duvall, Bethel Leslie, Larry Storch, Dick Sargent.

  Brentwood/Reynard/Universal

  Producer: Robert Arthur.

  Director: David Miller.

  Screenplay: Richard L Breen, Phoebe Ephron, and Henry Ephron, from the novel by Leo Rosten.

  Cinematography by Russell Metty.

  126 minutes. Color.

  1964

  Behold a Pale Horse

  Gregory Peck (Manuel Artiguez), Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Mildred Dunnock, Raymond Pellegrin, Paolo Stoppa.

  Brentwood/Highland/Columbia

  Producer: Fred Zinnemann.

  Director: Fred Zinnemann.

  Screenplay: J P Miller, from the novel Killing a Mouse on Sunday by Emeric Pressburger.

  Cinematography by Jean Badal.

  112 minutes. Black and white.

  1965

  Mirage

  Gregory Peck (David Stillwell), Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, Leif Erikson, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Weston, George Kennedy, Walter Abel.

  Universal

  Producer: Harry Keller.

  Director: Edward Dmytryk.

  Screenplay: Peter Stone, from the novel Fallen Angel by Walter Ericson.

  Cinematography by Joseph MacDonald.

  108 minutes. Black and white.

  1966

  Arabesque

  Gregory Peck (David Pollock), Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore, John Merivale, Carl Duering.

  Universal

  Producer: Stanley Donen.

  Director: Stanley Donen.

  Screenplay: Julian Mitchell, Stanley Price
, and Pierre Marton, from the novel The Cipher by Gordon Colter.

  Cinematography by Christopher Challis.

  105 minutes. Black and white.

  1969

  The Stalking Moon

  Gregory Peck (Sam Varner), Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster, Noland Clay, Russell Thorson, Frank Silvera, Lonny Chapman.

  Pakula-Mulligan/National General

  Producer: Alan J Pakula.

  Director: Robert Mulligan.

  Screenplay: Alvin Sargent, from the novel by Theodore V Olsen.

  Cinematography by Charles Lang.

  111 minutes. Color.

  1969

  MacKenna’s Gold

  Gregory Peck (MacKenna), Omar Sharif, Camilla Sparv, Telly Savalas, Keenan Wynn, Julie Newmar, Ted Cassidy, Lee J Cobb, Raymond Massey, Burgess Meredith, Anthony Quayle, Edward G Robinson, Eli Wallach.

  Highroad/Columbia

  Producers: Carl Foreman and Dimitri Tiomkin.

  Director: J Lee Thompson.

  Screenplay: Carl Foreman, from the novel by Will Henry.

  Cinematography by Joseph MacDonald.

  128 minutes. Color.

  1969

  The Chairman

  (The Most Dangerous Man in the World in the UK) Gregory Peck (John Hathaway), Anne Heywood, Arthur Hill, Alan Dobie, Conrad Yama, Zienia Merton.

  Apjac/Twentieth Century Fox

  Producer: Mort Abrahams.

  Director: J Lee Thompson.

  Screenplay: Ben Maddow, from the novel by Jay Richard Kennedy.

  Cinematography by John Wilcox.

  104 minutes. Color.

  1969

  Marooned

  Gregory Peck (Charles Keith), Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant, Nancy Pruett, Mariette Hartley, Scott Brady.

  Columbia

  Producer: M J Frankovich.

  Director: John Sturges.

  Screenplay: Mayo Simon, from the novel by Martin Caidin. Cinematography by Daniel Fapp.

  133 minutes. Color.

  1970

  I Walk the Line

  Gregory Peck (Sheriff Henry Tawes), Tuesday Weld, Estelle Parsons, Ralph Meeker, Lonny Chapman, Charles Durning.

  John Frankenheimer Productions/Edward Lewis Productions/ Halcyon Productions/Columbia

  Producers: Edward Lewis and Harold D Cohen.

  Director: John Frankenheimer.

  Screenplay: Alvin Sargent, from the novel The Exile by Madison Jones.

 

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