A Passing

Gregory Peck has died, reports The Hollywood Reporter.

He will probably be best remembered as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, but let's not forget Cape Fear, and of course, The Omen (a flick I first saw in church youth group, when they tried letting the teenagers take turns "teaching").

Any one else have a strong favorite Gregory Peck role or movie, other than TKAM?

Comments

[Anonymous]

Well, there was this movie I seen one time,
About a man riding 'cross the desert and it starred Gregory Peck.
He was shot down by a hungry kid trying to make a name for himself.
The townspeople wanted to crush that kid down and string him up by the neck.

Well, the marshal, now he beat that kid to a bloody pulp
as the dying gunfighter lay in the sun and gasped for his last breath.
Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square,
I want him to feel what it's like to every moment face his death.

Well, I'm standin' in line in the rain to see a movie starring Gregory Peck,
Yeah, but you know it's not the one that I had in mind.
He's got a new one out now, I don't even know what it's about
But I'll see him in anything so I'll stand in line.

There was a movie I seen one time, I think I sat through it twice.
I don't remember who I was or where I was bound.
All I remember about it was it starred Gregory Peck, he wore a gun and he was shot in the back.
Seems like a long time ago, long before the stars were torn down.

[B.P.]

The Guns of Navarrone, man. A great WWII action film. R.I.P....

[Jade Monk]

Peck was great in everything he did, but his villainous role "The Boys From Brazil" is second to none. I've heard that it was Peck's fav too.

[Ray Eckhart]

Scary Nazi in Boys from Brazil.

[Warren]

Peck's role was weak but "Other Peoples Money" is one of the great unsung films.

[Peter]

"The Gunfighter" (1950, Henry King) -- Peck played Jimmy Ringo, in the role memorialized by Bob Dylan in "Brownsville Girl" on the Knocked Out Loaded CD:
"There was this movie I seen one time, about a man riding across the desert and it starred Gregory Peck . . ."

[joe]

I'd have given anything to BE Greg Peck in Roman Holiday. Audrey Hepburn! (sigh).

[stooey]

Moby Dick.

[David]

"Designing Woman" with Lauren Bacall...1957. Hilarious.

[mike]

Boys From Brazil.
Cool Evil
great comparison to Olivier in Marathon Man

[tim]

Nobody representin' for David and Bathsheba? When Peck intones, "Sit Uriah at the front of the hottest battle, and withdraw from him... that he may be smitten... and die," that's just, uh, well... Actually it sucks, but it's a pretty memorable reading.

[holger viking]

Love at first bite. definitely a great film. no, wait. that was george hamilton.

[Bern]

Sweet Sweetback's Baddass Song.

[G.Cooper]

TAKE YOUR PICK. Greg Peck was good
at everything he did, not only in films,
but in the dignified, decent and moral way
in which he worked and lived.

Days of Glory, 1944
The Keys of the Kingdom, 1945
The Valley of Decision, 1945
Spellbound, 1945
The Yearling, 1946
The Macomber Affair, 1947
Duel in the Sun, 1947
Gentleman's Agreement, 1947
The Paradine Case, 1948
Yellow Sky, 1948
The Great Sinner, 1949
Twelve O'Clock High, 1950
The Gunfighter, 1950
Only the Valiant, 1951
David and Bathsheba, 1951
Captain Horatio Hornblower, 1951
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 1952
The World in His Arms, 1952
Roman Holiday, 1953
Night People, 1954
The Man With a Million, 1954
The Purple Plain, 1954
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, 1956
Moby Dick, 1956
Designing Woman, 1957
The Bravados, 1958
The Big Country, 1958
Pork Chop Hill, 1959
Beloved Infidel, 1959
On the Beach, 1959
The Guns of Navarone, 1961
To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962
Cape Fear, 1962
How the West Was Won, 1962
Captain Newman M.D., 1964
Behold a Pale Horse, 1964
Mirage, 1965
Arabesque, 1966
The Stalking Moon, 1969
Mackenna's Gold, 1969
The Chairman, 1969
The Most Dangerous Man in the World, 1969
Marooned, 1969
I Walk the Line, 1970
Shoot-Out, 1971
Billy Two Hats, 1974
The Omen, 1976
MacArthur, 1977
The Boys from Brazil, 1978
The Sea Wolves, 1980
The Blue and the Gray (TV), 1982
The Scarlet and the Black (TV), 1982
Amazing Grace and Chuck, 1987
Old Gringo, 1989
Other People's Money, 1991
Cape Fear, 1991
The Portrait (TV), 1993
Moby Dick (TV), 1998

(We'll surely miss 'em.)

[Joy]

Roman Holiday, definitely!