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1、Gregory Deck-An American MasterContentsEarly yearsCareerPoliticsPersonal lifeDeathAwards and filmsEarly years:Peck was born Eldred Gregory Peck in San Diego, Californias seaside community of La Jolla, the son of Missouri-born Bernice Mae Bunny Ayres and Gregory Pearl Peck, who was a chemist and phar

2、macist. Peck was of English and Irish heritage,. Pecks father was a Catholic and his mother converted upon marrying his father. Pecks Irish-born paternal grandmother, Catherine Ashe, was related to Thomas Ashe, who took part in the Easter Rising fewer than three weeks after Pecks birth and died whil

3、e on hunger strike in 1917. Pecks parents divorced by the time he was six years old and he spent the next few years being raised by his maternal grandmother.CareerAfter graduation Peck head for New York with $195 in his pocket.He studied with Sanford Meisner and Martha Graham , worked as a barker at

4、 the 1939 worids Fair and as a tour guide at the television network NBC. He made his broadway debut leading in Emlyn Williams morning star.The play flopped , but Pecks performance brought interest from Hollywood.PoliticsIn an interview with the Irish media, Peck revealed that former President Lyndon

5、 Johnson had told him that, had he sought re-election in 1968, he intended to offer Peck the post of U.S. ambassador to Ireland a post Peck, due to his Irish ancestry, said he might well have taken, saying It would have been a great adventure.10 Author Michael Freedland, in his biography of Peck, su

6、bstantiates the report and says that Johnson indicated that his presentation of the Medal of Freedom to Peck would perhaps make up for his inability to confer the ambassadorship.He was outspoken against the Vietnam War, while remaining supportive of his son, Stephen, who was fighting there. In 1972,

7、 Peck produced the film version of Daniel Berrigans play The Trial of the Catonsville Nine about the prosecution of a group of Vietnam protesters for civil disobedience. Despite his initial reluctance to portray the controversial General Douglas MacArthur on screen, he did so in 1977 and ended up wi

8、th a great admiration for the man.In 1987, Peck did the voice over on television commercials opposing President Ronald Reagans Supreme Court nomination of conservative jurist Robert Bork. Borks nomination was defeated. Peck was also a vocal supporter of ridding the world of nuclear weapons.In 1947,

9、while many Hollywood figures were being blacklisted for similar activities, he signed a letter deploring a House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of alleged communists in the film industry.President Richard Nixon placed Peck on his enemies list due to his liberal activism.A lifelong su

10、pporter of the Democratic Party, Peck was suggested in 1970 as a possible Democratic candidate to run against Ronald Reagan for the office of Governor of California. Although he later admitted that he had no interest in being a candidate himself for public office, Peck encouraged one of his sons, Ca

11、rey Peck, to run for political office. Carey was defeated both times he tried for Congress, in 1978 and in 1980, by Republican Congressman Robert K. Dornan, both times by slim margins.A story about Gentlemans AgreementIn 1947,Gentlemans Agreement, in which Peck played a magazine writer who poses as

12、a Jew to expose anti-Semitism, was considered a daring film in its time.Peck commented in 1971 that his agent cautioned him: “Youre just establishing yourself, and a lot of people will resent the picture. Anti-Semitism runs very deep in this country.”Peck ignored his advice. Gentlemans Agreement pro

13、ved a moneymaker and won the Oscar as best picture.“I put everything I had into it all my feelings and everything Id learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children,” he remarked in1989,And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity.” nti:semitiz()m反猶太分

14、子 /k:n 警告/ nkwlti: 不平等Awards Peck was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning once. He was nominated for The Keys of the Kingdom (1945), The Yearling (1946), Gentlemans Agreement (1947) and Twelve OClock High (1949). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Atticus Finch in the 196

15、2 film To Kill a Mockingbird. In 1968, he received the Academys Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.In 1998, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.17In 2000, Peck was made a Doctor of Letters by the National University of Ireland. He was a founding patron of the University College Dublin School of

16、Film, where he persuaded Martin Scorsese to become an honorary patron. Peck also became chair of the American Cancer Society for a short time.For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Gregory Peck has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6100 Hollywood Blvd. In November 2005, the star

17、was stolen. It has since been replaced.Theres a video about he won the award in OSCAR.oscar.avi1941年 在紐約出演第一部舞臺劇醫(yī)生的困境 1941年 出演舞臺劇旁奇和朱莉亞 1942年 出演舞臺劇浮生若夢 1942年 首次亮相百老匯，在晨星中擔任主角 1943年 進入好萊塢，拍攝第一部影片光榮的日子（Days of Glory） 1944年 拍攝王國的鑰匙（The Keys of The Kingdom），并因此被提名奧斯卡最佳男主角 1944年 拍攝空谷芳草（The Valley of Deci

18、sion），并因此被提名奧斯卡最佳男主角 1945年 拍攝愛德華大夫（Spellbound） 1946年 拍攝太陽浴血記（Duel in The Sun） 1946年 拍攝鹿苑長春（The Yearling），并因此被提名奧斯卡最佳男主角1947年 拍攝麥康伯桃色案（The Macomber Affair） 1947年 拍攝君子協(xié)定（Gentlemans Agreement） 1947年 拍攝帕拉亭案件（The Paradine Case） 1949年 拍攝金沙鎮(zhèn)（Yellow Sky） 1949年 拍攝絕代艷姬（The Great Sinner） 1949年 拍攝晴空血戰(zhàn)史（Twelve O

19、 Clock High），并因此被提名奧斯卡最佳男主角 1950年 拍攝黑天鵝（The Gunfighter） 1951年 拍攝只有勇士（Only The Valliant） 1951年 拍攝大衛(wèi)王和王妃（David and Bathsheba） 1951年 拍攝士海蛟龍（Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.） 1951年 拍攝擁抱世界（The World in His Arms） 1952年 拍攝乞力馬扎羅的雪（The Snows of Kilimanjaro） 1952年 拍攝羅馬假日（Roman Holiday） 1953年 拍攝百萬英鎊（The Million

20、 Pound Note） 1954年 拍攝巴黎香水（Boum and Paris）1954年 拍攝柏林間諜戰(zhàn)（Night People） 1955年 拍攝紫色平原（The Purple Plain） 1955年 拍攝白鯨記（Moby Dick） 1956年 拍攝穿法蘭絨外套的人（The Man in The Gray Flannel Suit） 1957年 拍攝風流記者（Designing Woman） 1958年 監(jiān)制錦繡大地（The Big Country） 1958年 拍攝殲虎屠龍（The Bravados） 1959年 拍攝豬排山（Pork Chop Hill） 1959年 拍攝海濱（On the Beach） 1959年 拍攝癡情恨（Beloved Infidel） 1960年 拍攝納瓦隆大炮（The Guns of Navarone） 1960年 拍攝恐怖角（Cape Fear） 1961年 拍攝殺死一只知更鳥（To Kill a Mockingbird），并因此榮獲奧斯卡最佳男主角獎1962年 拍攝西部開拓史（How the West was Won） 1963年 拍攝紐曼軍醫(yī)（Captain Newman, M.D.） 1964年 拍攝十面埋伏擒蛟龍（Behold a Pale Horse）