As a young stage actor in New York during the 1940s, Gregory Peck made the leap into making movies not for fame, but for family. “I was in debt somewhat; I’d gotten myself married [to Greta Kukkonen]; ...

Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor and one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck the ...