Talk:Gregory Peck

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Contents 1 So Fix It 2 Armenian? 3 Maddox referance 4 Pecks real birth date 5 pic 6 Screwy chronology

[edit] So Fix It

"The Trial of the Catonsville Nine" is by Daniel Berrigan, not Philip. Fixed it. --151.199.16.234 00:56, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

I dropped this about his death:

...died at his Los Angeles home, with his second wife, Veronique, at his side."

If that is put back in it needs a source. I have read that Peck and Veronique had been quietly separated for many years - and even that she attended his funeral with her current companion. If I can find a source I'll cite it and note the article accordingly. Ellsworth 18:43, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Armenian?

There is a story from the IMDB that Peck had some distant Armenian ancestry (which even if true would still not qualify him for Armenian-Americans, the ethnicity-American categories include only people 1/4 or more of that ethnicity). A couple of websites reposted that exact same IMDB quote (including adherents.com). But there is nothing else on the net to support this and the IMDB is complete, utter, absolutely undisputed crap when it comes to bio details like that. I've read a book bio of Peck and it didn't mention anything about any Armenian roots. Does anyone have a good source or know for sure? Vulturell 00:08, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Good point....but i keep hearing it by the Armenian community...once a story is told it sort of sticks and becomes fact...I think he has no link to Armenia although he did learn the language, maybe thats why the confusion arizes..

Actually he is listed as an Aromanian, not an Armenian.

The only information about his ancestry we got is the imdb page, Armenian forums and fan biography pages. I'm guessing the majority of this articles information was copied from those fan pages. [1] Vartanm 01:44, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I definitely think it should be taken out--the probability that Gregory Peck's grandfather, born around 1865 in the USA, would have any Armenian ancestry is virtually zero. There is no reputable source supporting this, and as far as I can tell, none of the many intrepid celebrity genealogists on the internet even know the parentage of Samuel Peck. I'm taking it out. TMiscia 04:30, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maddox referance

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=real_men Is this a relevant enough link to put on the page? Jackpot Den 02:54, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Of course it is. Karatloz 01:30, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

I do not believe it is

[edit] Pecks real birth date

Can 1916 be the correct year of Peck's birth? Actors often fudge this. My dad, Samuel G. Harter, went to San Diego High School with Peck and mentioned that he knew him. I know this to be the case because I looked in his copy of the Grey Castle (as it was called) yearbook and saw both Eldred Peck and my father in it. My father was born in 1910, so the annual (which I haven't seen lately) could have been for around 1927 or 1928 perhaps. If San Diego High then included freshmen through seniors, I suppose Peck could have been four years younger than my dad. If, however, it included grades now thought of as junior high or middle school, 1916 could be correct. George Weinberg-Harter 16:35, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] pic

I think we should remove the picture of the 2003 photo of Peck. First of all, no one remembers him well as a long, white-haired man with a mustache and sunglasses. I myself have never seen a recent photo of him, and remember him only as the prominent actor in "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Guns of Navarone." We should replace the picture with a photo of him during his time of acting. Oyo321 03:47, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

That's ridiculous. This is an article about the man; the 2003 photo is no less Gregory Peck (it's worth mentioning that he did speaking tours around the world in his last years). Rhombus 07:16, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Screwy chronology

The article currently reads: "After graduating, Class of 1942 from Berkeley with a BA degree in English, Peck dropped the name "Eldred" and headed to New York City to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse. He was often broke and sometimes slept in Central Park. He worked at the 1939 World's Fair and as a tour guide for NBC's television broadcasting.

He made his Broadway debut as the lead in Emlyn Williams' The Morning Star in 1942. His second Broadway performance that year was in The Willow and I with Edward Pawley. Peck's acting abilities were in high demand during World War II, since he was exempt from military service owing to a back injury suffered while receiving dance and movement lessons from Martha Graham as part of his acting training. Twentieth Century Fox claimed he had injured his back while rowing at university, but in Peck's words, "In Hollywood, they didn't think a dance class was macho enough, I guess. I've been trying to straighten out that story for years."

So what is it? How do you graduate UC Berkeley in 1942 but debut on Broadway all while sleeping in Central Park? Did he go to New York in 1939? Something doesn't add up. Rhombus 07:16, 2 February 2007 (UTC)