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 (...