Gregory Peck won Best Actor for To Kill a Mockingbird, and Atticus Finch has since been named the greatest hero in American film, which says as much about the culture as about the performance.
The interesting work is where the decency cracks. Twelve O’Clock High is about a commander breaking down under the weight of sending men to die, and The Gunfighter plays a legend who cannot escape his own reputation.
He was nominated five times, produced several of his own films, and served as president of the Academy. Roman Holiday shows a light comic touch the reputation obscures.
Billie WhitelawAn American diplomat learns his adopted son may be the Antichrist as people around the boy die in supernatural accidents. The Omen is Richard Donner's 1976 American horror film depicting an American diplomat who learns that his adopted son may…
Audrey Hepburn
Gregory PeckThe Blue and the Gray is a CBS miniseries from 1982 that tried to do for the Civil War what Roots had done for slavery a few years earlier. Stacy Keach plays Jonas Steele, a Pinkerton operative.
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