Gregory Peck: 9 Facts About Characters and Roles

1. #005

   Gregory Peck's favorite leading ladies were reported to be Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman and Ava Gardner.

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2. #054

   Gregory Peck was the second choice to play Prof. Henry Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), after Sean Connery turned the role down. Harrison Ford has cited Peck as one of his favourite actors and To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) as one of his favourite films.

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3. #072

   One of Peck's greatest heroes since childhood was President Abraham Lincoln. Peck was initially anxious about portraying him in The Blue and the Gray (1982), because at 66 he was ten years older than Lincoln was when he was assassinated. About 17 years later, when director Rod Lurie made him his first choice to play a fictional US President in The Contender (2000), Peck turned the offer down, saying he was "too damn old."

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4. #074

   Valiant (1951) was the only film Peck truly disliked. After starring in The Gunfighter (1950), he felt that taking the western was a step backwards.

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5. #075

   Peck was considered for the role played by Rock Hudson in Ice Station Zebra (1968).

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6. #102

   Orson Welles once hoped to make a film about the DC Comics hero Batman starring Gregory Peck, but the project never came to fruition. It turned out to be a hoax.

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7. #112

   Peck and The Big Country (1958) co-star Charlton Heston both portrayed the notorious Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele: Peck in The Boys from Brazil (1978) and Heston in My Father (2003).

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8. #118

   Peck was set to star in The Proud Ones (1956), but the role was ultimately played by Robert Ryan.

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9. #122

   After making Gentleman's Agreement, Peck and his co-star Dorothy McGuire founded the La Jolla Playhouse in California.

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