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West-German postcard by Netter's Starverlag, Bad Münder / Bakede. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
American actor Gregory Peck (1916-2003) was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. Peck received five nominations for Academy Award for Best Actor and won once – for his performance as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). He almost always played courageous, nobly heroic good guys who saw injustice and fought it. Among his best known films are Spellbound (1945), The Yearling (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Roman Holiday (1953), The Guns of Navarone (1961), and Cape Fear (1962).
Eldred Gregory Peck was born in 1916 in La Jolla, California (now in San Diego). His parents were Bernice Mary (Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, a chemist, and druggist in San Diego. His parents divorced when he was five years old. An only child, he was sent to live with his grandmother. He never felt he had a stable childhood. His fondest memories are of his grandmother taking him to the cinema every week and of his dog, which followed him everywhere. Peck's father encouraged him to take up medicine. He studied pre-med at UC-Berkeley and, while there, got bitten by the acting bug and decided to change the focus of his studies. He enrolled in the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and debuted on Broadway after graduation. His debut was in Emlyn Williams' play 'The Morning Star' (1942). By 1943, he was in Hollywood, where he debuted in the RKO film Days of Glory (Jacques Tourneur, 1944). Stardom came with his next film, The Keys of the Kingdom (John M. Stahl, 1944), for which he was nominated for an Oscar. Tony Fontana at IMDb: "Peck's screen presence displayed the qualities for which he became well known. He was tall, rugged and heroic, with a basic decency that transcended his roles." He appeared opposite Ingrid Bergman in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) as an amnesia victim accused of murder. In The Yearling (Clarence Brown, 1946), he was again nominated for an Oscar and won the Golden Globe. He was especially effective in Westerns and appeared in such varied fare as David O. Selznick's critically blasted Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, 1946), the somewhat better received Yellow Sky (William A. Wellman, 1948), and the acclaimed The Gunfighter (Henry King, 1950). He was nominated again for the Academy Award for his roles in Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan, 1947), which dealt with anti-Semitism, and Twelve O'Clock High (Henry King, 1949), a story of high-level stress in an Air Force bomber unit in World War II. In 1947, Peck, along with Dorothy McGuire, David O'Selznick, and Mel Ferrer, founded the La Jolla Playhouse, located in his hometown, and produced many of the classics there. Due to film commitments, he could not return to Broadway but whet his appetite for live theatre on occasion at the Playhouse, keeping it firmly established with a strong, reputable name over the years.
With a string of hits to his credit, Gregory Peck made the decision to only work in films that interested him. He continued to appear as the heroic, larger-than-life figures in such films as Captain Horatio Hornblower (Raoul Walsh, 1951) with Virginia Mayo, and Moby Dick (John Huston, 1956) with Richard Basehart. He worked with Audrey Hepburn in her debut film, Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953). While filming The Bravados (Henry King, 1958), he decided to become a cowboy in real life, so he purchased a vast working ranch near Santa Barbara, California - already stocked with 600 head of prize cattle. In the early 1960s, he gave a powerful performance as Captain Keith Mallory in The Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson, 1961) opposite David Niven and Anthony Quinn. The film was one of the biggest box-office hits of that year. Peck finally won the Oscar, after four nominations, for his performance as lawyer Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962). He also appeared in two darker films than he usually made, Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson, 1962) opposite Robert Mitchum, and Captain Newman, M.D. (David Miller, 1963) with Tony Curtis, which dealt with the way people live. The financial failure of Cape Fear (1962) ended his company, Melville Productions. After making Arabesque (Stanley Donen, 1966) with Sophia Loren, Peck withdrew from acting for three years in order to concentrate on various humanitarian causes, including the American Cancer Society. In the early 1970s, he produced two films, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Gordon Davidson, 1972) and The Dove (Charles Jarrott, 1974), when his film career stalled. He made a comeback playing, somewhat woodenly, Ambassador Robert Thorn in the horror film The Omen (Richard Donner, 1976) with Lee Remick. After that, he returned to the bigger-than-life roles he was best known for, such as MacArthur (Joseph Sargent, 1977) and the infamous Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele in the huge hit The Boys from Brazil (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1978) with Laurence Olivier and James Mason. In the 1980s, he moved into television with the miniseries The Blue and the Gray (Andrew V. McLaglen, 1982) in which he played Abraham Lincoln, and The Scarlet and the Black (Jerry London, 1983) with Christopher Plummer and John Gielgud. In 1991, he appeared in the remake of his 1962 film, playing a different role, in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991). He was also cast as the progressive-thinking owner of a wire and cable business in Other People's Money (Norman Jewison, 1991), starring Danny DeVito. In 1967, Peck received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He was also been awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom. Always politically progressive, he was active in such causes as anti-war protests, workers' rights, and civil rights. In 2003, Peck's portrayal of Atticus Finch was named the greatest film hero of the past 100 years by the American Film Institute, only two weeks before his death. Atticus beat out Indiana Jones, who was placed second, and James Bond who came third. Gregory Peck died in 2003 in Los Angeles, California. He was 87. Peck was married twice. From 1942 till 1955, he was married to Greta Kukkonen. They had three children: Jonathan Peck (1944-1975), Stephen Peck (1946), and Carey Paul Peck (1949). His second wife was Veronique Passani, whom he met at the set of Roman Holliday. They married in 1955 and had two children: Tony Peck (1956) and Cecilia Peck (1958). The couple remained together till his death.
Sources: Tony Fontana (IMDb), and IMDb.
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British postcard. Broadwest.
Gregor Scott was a popular stage and screen actor, born 1879 but the year of his death unknown. While starting out at London Film in 1914, initially in a string of short films, he became a lead in features from late 1914 onward, at London Film and Neptune Film, in films by Percy Nash a.o. From 1917 to the early 1920s he worked at Walter West's company Broadwest, in films often with Violet Hopson, Stewart Rome, and Clive Brook, while he also acted at Hopson's own production company.
"Gregory Scott born Gregory Scott Frances in Sandy, Bedfordshire in 1879. Popular stage actor from 1898. Good-looking, smart, well mannered matinee idol who starred in around 50 drama films, first under the direction of Harold M. Shaw in 'Lawyer Quince' co-starring Charles Rock at the London Film Company in 1914, perhaps best remembered as Lord Hilhoxton in 'Kissing Cup Race' directed by Walter West and playing opposite the beautiful Violet Hopson in 1920 and also as Philip Trent in the crime thriller 'Trent's Last Case' directed by Richard Garrick and co-starring Pauline Peters at Broadwest Film Company in 1920. He semi-retired from the screen after 1922's 'A Rogue in Love' a romantic/drama co-starring Ann Trevor, four years later he made a comeback appearing in character roles in a series of short comedies starring George Bellamy, [after which] he was never seen on screen again." (Paul Rothwell-Smith on IMDB)
The Most Rev. Gregory Michael Aymond, Archbishop of New Orleans, gave his talk, “Catholic Education: Gifts and Challenges in 2012 and Beyond” on September 20, 2012 as part of the Presidential Centennial Guest Series.
During the lecture, Archbishop Aymond explored issues facing Catholic education today and invited response and commentary from an esteemed panel of Catholic higher education leaders, including Loyola University President Kevin Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., Xavier University of Louisiana President Norman Francis, J.D. '55, Ph.D., H '82, and Our Lady of Holy Cross College President Ronald Ambrosetti, Ph.D.
Author Gregory Loew in Atherton, CA. Photographed for InMenlo. Lighting: Paul C Buff Einstein with 53' reflecting umbrella and diffuser camera leftt. Fired with Cybersync.
I saw Gregory Lake in 2007 as stinky, garbage floating lake. But today it’s clean and make a breathtaking view also reminds me Europe. It is happy thing to me as a nature lover!
Edward McKnight Kauffer was one of the best 20th century's graphic artists and designers - imagine being able to commission a christmas card from him!
Today's story and sketch "by me" is in the 939th year of the second millennium, (1939) this being the year we see
Gregory Gofish piloting his Anion hyper drive glider here on Howland Island in the Pacific.
You see Gregory had just rescued his long time friend Amelia Earhart. Yes Rescued. And yes life long friends.
There friendship began, on a farm in Kansas when Amelia was around twelve years old. When one day she
was out wandering along a creek bed. She came upon an alien space craft and got closer to investigate it.
Amelia had no idea what it was but she was always a daring, and curious lass. As she approached the craft,
she noticed Gregory walking up from the creek with a jug of water, the second thing she noticed was that
Gregory was four foot tall and had very large black eyes, and had no clothes and was a pasty grey color.
Not being shy Amelia introduced herself, Gregory did the same, and invited Amelia to stay for a picnic
moon pie lunch. Gregory had a speech impediment as do many gofish aliens, (very small mouth has problems
with certain words) he could not say Amelia, well it came out Meeley, which stuck and became her nickname.
And that Rod Blog friends was the day they became life long friends. And was also the day
Amelia became an aviator. After there picnic lunch Gregory took, (no abduction was perpetrated on Amelia)
It was just two friends doing a low Earth Orbit around Kansas and surrounding countries. Gregory left and
returned home to Lippo his home moon, (The Blue Moon). But did return occasionally to see his friend Amelia.
(Meeley), Gregory was always excited to hear about Amelia's adventures. Until the day, he could not find her.
This trip to Earth he could not locate Meeley, she was nowhere to be found, he discovered she was missing
in her model ten Electra, which she was piloting across the Pacific Ocean. Gregory as frantic as he had ever
been, shot out over the Pacific ocean himself, using his (Whaawanttofindsomeone meter), got a reading she was
close by when he reached this Island (Howland Island), Amelia had crashed landed the Electra,
into the ocean just beyond an outer reef, but managed to swim to shore and was in a banana plantation
storage shack, (the one you see in today's sketch). Amelia had been in the shack about a week, recovering
from some scrapes and bruises, when Gregory landed outside the shack. Amelia heard the sound she recognized,
that being the Anion Hyper drive Whirring sound. Gregory rescued Meeley, took her with him to Lippo, where
she would not grow old, and not do any harm to herself, and they are still happily married. Taa ta the Rod Blog
LAKE Gregory, also known as the Isis Balancing Storage or simply as the "Duckpond" is a small impoundment between Bundaberg & Childers. It is a mere 200 ha in area with an average depth of 3.1 meters & holds just over 6000 ML of water at full capacity.
Officially stocked with only Bass & Silver Perch, several captures of Saratoga & Tarpon have been reported. Being a shallow lake, weed beds dominate the fringes and can be a menace to anglers although there are some deeper sections up to 30 feet.
A Stocked Impoundment Permit (SIP) is required to fish Lake Gregory.
In Kennedy Space Center's Vertical Processing Facility (VPF), the STS-82 crew members familiarize themselves with some of the hardware that they plan to be handling on the second servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which took place in 1997. Looking over the Flight Support System (FSS) Berthing and Positioning System (BAPS) ring are astronauts Joseph R. Tanner (far left), Mark C. Lee (third from left), and Gregory J. Harbaugh (fourth from left), along with several HST processing team members. Tanner, Lee, and Harbaugh, along with Steven L. Smith, performed spacewalks to service HST. The telescope was deployed in 1990 and was initially serviced in 1993.
Credit: NASA