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Friedman said Peck's wife told him she held his hand as the actor slipped off to sleep and died Jonathan, a TV reporter, committed suicide at age 30 The next year, Peck played a priest in his second film, "Keys to the Kingdom," which brought him his first Oscar nomination "We talked so often about doing a picture together, and I am sad that we never got to do one He served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and was active in the Motion Picture and Television Fund, American Cancer Society, National Endowment for the Arts and other causes He represents integrity, compassion and honesty m With most male stars absent in the war, the studios desperately needed strong leading men Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake of "Cape Fear" cast Peck and Robert Mitchum in a reversal of the good and evil types they played in the 1962 original An English major at the University of California, Berkeley, Peck was lured into acting when the director of the campus little theater accosted him and said he needed a tall actor for a stage version of "Moby Dick " Peck's lanky, gaunt-cheeked good looks, measured speech and courtly demeanor quickly established him as star material in the 1940s He taught me chess between scenes " Among Peck's final roles were playful revisitations of his past films " Finch earned Peck his final Hollywood honor, placing No A Roosevelt New Dealer, Peck campaigned for Harry Truman in 1948 "at a time when nobody thought he had a chance to win He made his film debut in 1944's "Days of Glory," a tale of Russian peasants coping with Nazi occupation " The 1962 classic was based on Harper Lee's novel about widowed lawyer Atticus Finch, who is raising two children amid Southern racial unrest as he defends a black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman "He just sort of ran his course and died of old age Ahab He had one amicable divorce, and scandal never touched him With his wife of 48 years, Veronique, at his side, Peck died about 4 a 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 Scott Fitzgerald in "Beloved Infidel " "One of the dearest I've worked with "Gregory Peck was unique He was shuffled back and forth between them for two years, lived two more years with his maternal grandmother, then was sent at age 10 to a Roman Catholic military school in Los Angeles It was an honor to have worked with him," DeVito said Other films included Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound," the Ernest Hemingway adaptation "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," the corporate-America critique "The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit" and the nuclear-Armageddon tale "On the Beach " "It was an honor to know him " Roles became scarce late in his career "He had just been getting older and more fragile," Friedman said "And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity Born Eldred Gregory Peck on April 5, 1916, in La Jolla, Calif His star shone brightly for a long time, and now it will continue to shine in heaven," said Kirk Douglas , Peck had a disjointed childhood after his parents divorced when he was 6 at his Los Angeles home, spokesman Monroe Friedman said They had two children, Anthony and Cecilia, both actors " Nominated for Academy Awards four times early in his career, Peck finally won the best-actor honor with his fifth and final nomination for "To Kill a Mockingbird S Douglas MacArthur in "MacArthur," Lincoln in the TV miniseries "The Blue and the Grey" and F Three more nominations soon followed: for 1946's "The Yearling," the family classic about a boy and his pet fawn; for 1947's best-picture winner "Gentlemen's Agreement," in which Peck played a reporter posing as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism in America; and for 1949's "Twelve O'Clock High," with Peck as a World War II flight leader coming unglued under the pressures of command " Off-screen as well as on, Peck conveyed a quiet dignity " After his first few films, Peck was soon under non-exclusive contracts to four studios; he refused an exclusive pact with MGM despite Louis B Peck married his first wife, Greta, in 1942 and they had three sons, Jonathan, Stephen and Carey Mayer's tearful pleading "I put everything I had into it â€â€? all my feelings and everything I'd learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children," Peck said in 1989, recalling the role He played writer Ambrose Bierce in 1989's "Old Gringo" and the owner of a company targeted for a hostile takeover in the 1991 Danny DeVito comedy "Other People's Money Oscar Winner Gregory Peck Dies at 87 Jun 12, 4:31 PM EST Gregory Peck, who embodied saintly fatherhood in "To Kill a Mockingbird" and played a range of real-life figures from Abraham Lincoln to Josef Mengele, died Thurday at 87 "He was more than a great man " Peck played Gen After his divorce in 1954, Peck married Veronique Passani, a Paris reporter 1 last week on the American Film Institute's list of top 50 heroes in U " 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 Though he played a handful of villains, including the Nazi doctor Mengele in "The Boys From Brazil," Peck was best known for upright, chivalrous characters in such films as "Roman Holiday" and "Gentlemen's Agreement" or stalwart heroes in "Captain Horatio Hornblower" and "Pork Chop Hill Peck was exempt from service because of an old back injury He was a complete and total gentleman," said Polly Bergen, who played Peck's wife in the 1962 thriller "Cape Fear " Spokesman Friedman said Peck had not been suffering from any particular ailments movies " He continued championing liberal causes, producing an anti-Vietnam War film in 1972, "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine" and helping the campaign against the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court in 1987 In the 1998 TV miniseries "Moby Dick," Peck had a small part as a fire-and-brimstone preacher, a role Orson Welles played in the 1956 movie version in which Peck starred as Capt "He was gentle, sweet and generous The car was stolen off a busy Berkeley street while Penn and his assistant ate lunch at Venus restaurant No one was in the vehicle when it was recovered, and no suspects have been arrested in the case, police said Enos Johnson said Sean Penn's Stolen Car Found, Guns Missing Apr 14, 1:56 PM EST Sean Penn's stolen 1987 Buick Grand National has been recovered by police, but two guns that were inside the car remain missing A loaded 9mm Glock handgun and a The three-time Academy Award nominee had a concealed weapons permit for the guns, police said 38-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver that were left inside the car haven't been found, Richmond police Sgt The car was found Saturday in Richmond, about nine miles from the Berkeley street where it was stolen Tuesday The limited-edition Buick did not appear to be damaged, Johnson said He's expected to begin shooting a new film called "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" in Oakland next month Penn lives in Marin County with his wife, actress Robin Wright Penn, and their two children |
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