After a childhood marked by the divorce of his parents, who entrusted him to his maternal grandmother, Gregory Peck discovered theater at university, while he intended to become a doctor. His passion was such that he abandoned his studies to conquer Broadway. In 1944, at the age of 28, he made his first film in Hollywood with Jacques Tourneur. From then on, the actor, catapulted to stardom by Alfred Hitchcock’s “The House of Doctor Edwardes”, imposed his deep voice, his humor and his melancholic elegance in around fifty feature films. Incarnation of an ideal of justice and tolerance, Gregory Peck flourishes in committed roles, consistent with his convictions.
Hijacked
“I will never lower myself to making cinema. My place is in the theater. » This is what Gregory Peck wrote to his father when he was starting out on stage in New York. Very quickly, he changed his mind and started in Hollywood with a Frenchman, the director Jacques Tourneur. This offers him the leading role of Glory daysreleased in 1944, where Gregory plays a… Russian resistance fighter.
Attentive
As it spins Roman holidays (1953) in Italy with Audrey Hepburn, completely unknown, the actor called the film’s producers and asked that the young woman’s name be added next to his at the top of the poster. Hepburn will win the Oscar for Best Actress.
Engaged
If he is remembered for Moby-Dickby John Huston, in 1956, this fervent democrat took action against racial segregation and anti-Semitism in the United States, first playing a journalist posing as Jewish in The invisible wall (1947) and, later, a lawyer defending a black man accused of rape in Silence and shadows (1963). This film won him the Oscar for Best Actor.
Gregory Peck, the gentleman actor, Sunday May 5 at 10:40 p.m. on Arte
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