Actor : Gregory Peck

 Great American Actor : Gregory Peck

My Mother named me after the great American actor Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003). He was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among 25 Greatest Male Stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema, ranking him at No. 12. So I can only rave about this man & his movie career. Peck first gained critical success in The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), a John M. Stahl–directed drama which earned him his first Academy Award nomination. He starred in a series of successful films, including romantic-drama The Valley of Decision (1944), Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), and family film The Yearling (1946). He encountered lukewarm commercial reviews at the end of the 1940s, his performances including The Paradine Case (1947) and The Great Sinner (1948). Notable films of the 50s, 60s & 70s : he appeared in  Moby Dick (1956, and its 1998 mini-series), The Big Country (1958), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Cape Fear (1962, and its 1991 remake), How the West Was Won (1962), The Omen (1976), and The Boys from Brazil (1978). Gregory Peck died in his sleep from bronchopneumonia at the age of 87.

My most favourite film is Roman Holiday a 1953 American romantic comedy film also starring the most beautiful & my most favourite leading lady : Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993). The premise of the story is a princess out to see Rome on her own & Gregory Peck as a reporter. Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance; the screenplay and costume design also won. I will produce a future blog of everything Audrey in the future because she is my ultimate favourite & hero of mine from when I first saw her in a film.