Real Name: Eldred Gregory Peck
Birthdate: April 5,1916
Birthplace: La Jolla, California
Wives:
Greta Rice (1942 - 1955) (divorced)
Veronique Passani (31 December 1955 - present)
Height: 6'3"
Peck's earliest movie memory is of being so scared by Phantom of the Opera, The (1925) at age 9 that his grandmother allowed him to sleep in the bed with her that night.
U.C. Berkeley graduate (BA '39) Oarsman on Cal's JV crew team.
Of his own movies, To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) is Peck's favourite.
Children, with Rice, Jonathan (b. 1944 - d. 1975) Stephen (b. 1945) Carey (b. 1949)
Children, with Passani, Tony Peck (b. 1956), 'Cecilia Peck' (b. 1958)
Recipient - Screen Actor's Award (from the Screen Actor's Guild, for his "outstanding achievement in fostering the finest ideals in the acting profession Recipient - American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award [1989]
Oldest son, Jon, committed suicide by gunshot [1975]
Chairman - Motion Picture & Television Relief Fund [1971]
Recipient - Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nation's Highest Civilian Award, awarded by Lyndon Johnson [1969]
Charter Member - National Council on the Arts [1968-1974]
President - Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences [1967]
Special Academy Award - Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award [1967]
National Chairman - American Cancer Society [1966]
Charter Member - National Council on the Arts [1964-1966]
Chairman - American Film Institute. He was the first Chairman of the AFI. [1967-1969]
Claiming he was worried about the 600,000 jobs hanging on the survival of the Chrysler Corporation, he volunteered to become an unpaid TV pitchman for the company in 1980.
He took in former co-star Ava Gardner's housekeeper and dog after her death in 1990.
Was in the original version of Cape Fear in 1962 playing Sam Bowden. He was later brought back for a part in the 1991 version playing Cady's Attorney.
Honorary chair, Los Angeles Library Foundation (his main interest these days). [1995]
Was President of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences during the late 1960s, and he was the one who decided to postpone the 1968 Oscar ceremony after Martin Luther King's assassination.
Chosen by producer Darryl Zanuck for the epic film David and Bathsheba (1951) because Zanuck thought Peck had a "biblical face."
Paternal grandmother hailed from County Kerry, Ireland.
