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Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor who was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. Peck continued to play major film roles until the late 1970s. His performance as Atticus Finch in the 1962 film ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. He had also been nominated for an Oscar for the same category for ''The Keys of the Kingdom'' (1944), ''The Yearling'' (1946), ''Gentleman's Agreement'' (1947) and ''Twelve O'Clock High'' (1949). Other notable films he appeared in include ''Spellbound'' (1945), ''The Paradine Case'' (1947), ''Roman Holiday'' (1953), ''Moby Dick'' (1956) (and its 1998 miniseries of the same name), ''The Guns of Navarone'' (1961), ''Cape Fear'' (1962) (and its 1991 remake of the same name), ''How the West Was Won'' (1962), ''The Omen'' (1976) and ''The Boys from Brazil'' (1978). President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among Greatest Male Stars of Classic Hollywood cinema, ranking at No. 12. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1983.〔(''Vanity Fair'' )〕 ==Early life== Eldred Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916 in the San Diego, California neighborhood of La Jolla, the son of Gregory Pearl Peck, a New York-born chemist and pharmacist, and his Missouri-born wife Bernice Mary "Bunny" (née Ayres).〔http://www.americanancestors.org/assortment-famous-actors/〕 His father was of English (paternal) and Irish (maternal) heritage,〔Freedland, Michael. ''Gregory Peck: A Biography''. New York: William Morrow and Company. 1980. ISBN 0-688-03619-8 p.10〕〔United States Census records for La Jolla, California 1910〕 while his mother had English and Scottish ancestry.〔United States Census records for St. Louis, Missouri – 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910〕 Peck's father was Roman Catholic, while his mother converted to Roman Catholicism when she married his father. Through his Irish-born paternal grandmother Catherine Ashe, Peck was related to Thomas Ashe, who took part in the Easter Rising less than three weeks after Peck's birth and died while on hunger strike in 1917. Peck's parents divorced by the time he was six years old; his maternal grandmother raised him for the next few years.〔 Freedland, pp. 12–18〕 Peck attended a Catholic military school, St. John's Military Academy, in Los Angeles at the age of 10. His grandmother died while he was enrolled there, and his father again took over his upbringing. At 14, Peck attended San Diego High School and lived with his father.〔Freedland, pp. 16–19〕 When he graduated, he enrolled briefly at San Diego State Teacher's College, (now known as San Diego State University), joined the track team, took his first theatre and public-speaking courses, and joined the Epsilon Eta fraternity. He stayed for just one academic year, thereafter obtaining admission to his first-choice college, the University of California, Berkeley.〔Thomas, Tony. ''Gregory Peck''. Pyramid Publications, 1977, p. 16〕 For a short time, he took a job driving a truck for an oil company. In 1936, he declared himself a pre-medical student at Berkeley, and majored in English. Standing , he rowed on the university crew. The Berkeley acting coach saw Peck as perfect material for university theater. Peck developed an interest in acting and was recruited by Edwin Duerr, director of the university's Little Theater. He appeared in five plays during his senior year. Although his tuition fee was only $26 per year, Peck still struggled to pay, and had to work as a "hasher" (kitchen helper) for the Gamma Phi Beta sorority in exchange for meals. Peck would later say about Berkeley that, "it was a very special experience for me and three of the greatest years of my life. It woke me up and made me a human being."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Gregory Peck comes home", ''Berkeley Magazine'', Summer 1996 )〕 In 1997, Peck donated $25,000 to the Berkeley rowing crew in honor of his coach, the renowned Ky Ebright. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gregory Peck」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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