THE LIFE OF GREGORY PECK

April 5, 1916: Born Eldred Gregory Peck in La Jolla

1938: Graduated UC Berkeley, went to New York to study acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner

1941: New York stage debut in George Bernard Shaw’s “The Doctor’s Dilemma”

1942: Broadway debut in Emlyn Williams’ “The Morning Star” 1942: Married Greta Kukkonen 1944: Film debut in “Days of Glory” 1946: Academy Award nomination for “The Keys of the Kingdom”

1947: Academy Award nomination for “The Yearling”

1947: Co- founded La Jolla Playhouse with Mel Ferrer and Dorothy McGuire

1948: Academy Award nomination for “Gentleman’s Agreement”

1950: Academy Award nomination for “Twelve O’Clock High”

1954: BAFTA nomination for “Roman Holiday”

1955: Divorced Kukkonen; married French journalist Veronique Passani

1963: Academy Award for lead actor for “To Kill a Mockingbird”

1967: Elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

1968: Received the academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

1969: Presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Lyndon B. Johnson

1987: American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award

1998: Awarded National Medal of Arts

June 12, 2003: Died in his sleep in

Los Angeles

Universal Pictures THE ACTOR won an Oscar for his work in “Mockingbird.”

20th Centur y Fox PECK, with Dorothy McGuire in “Gentleman’s Agreement.”