55 Gregory Peck Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

Atticus Finch is a conscientious lawyer and father of two kids, Scout and Jem, who are very much intrigued by the reclusive neighbour, the Radleys. When Finch agrees to defend a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman, everyone around is upset. The children face the horrors of racism but in process also learn the value of compassion and courage.

A royal princess Ann, irritated by her regulated lifestyle and duties, escapes from her embassy while in Rome and ends up sleeping at a public bench. She is found by Joe Bradley, an American newspaper reporter who takes her to his apartment for safety. The next morning, when he finds out her real identity, he promises his editor an exclusive and takes Ann on a sightseeing tour.

The Big Country is a Western drama film which revolves around James McKay, who visits the American West to be with Patricia, his fiancée. However, he finds himself caught up in the middle of two warring families.  

Max Cady, released after 8 years of imprisonment for assaulting a woman, vengefully starts stalking the family of lawyer Sam Bowden, who had testified against Cady. Bowden’s dog is poisoned, then his wife and daughter are targeted, yet the police can’t prove anything against Cady. Bowden takes his family to their houseboat in Cape Fear, and waits in hiding, knowing well that Cady will follow. 

The Gunfighter is a western film which tells the story of Jimmy Ringo, a gunfighter who is quite skilled, but his skill always leads him to trouble since other fighters are constantly out to challenge him to put his skills to the test. He tries to reconcile with the woman he loves, although she does not wish to see him again.

Damien is adopted by Robert Thorn and wife Katherine after the death of their biological child. Death and horror surround the family after Robert is appointed as the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom. After the death of Father Brennan, Keith Jennings investigates the mystery surrounding Damien and uncovers the terrifying truth of his identity as the antichrist. 

The Guns of Navarone is a war adventure film, which takes us to the time of the Second World War. The story revolves around a British team of soldiers who are sent to cross-occupied Greek territory to destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key channel. 

Dr. Anthony Edwardes replaces retiring Dr. Murchison as the chief of Green Manors mental asylum. He is drawn towards psychoanalyst Dr. Constance Petersen who realizes that he is an imposter. She discovers that he is an amnesiac who fears that he has killed real Edwardes. Convinced of his innocence, Constance helps him recover his memory and find the killer of Dr. Edwardes.

A group of bank robbers hide out in a town and stumble into a place that appears to be a ghost town where a young woman, Mike, stays with her grandfather. Dude, the cruelest one of them all, discovers that the old man has been mining gold and he plans to rob them. However, things get ugly when Stretch, their gang leader opts out as he falls for Mike. What follows is a violent power struggle and showdown amidst the gang.

Max Cady, who served 14 years in jail for raping and brutalizing a young woman, believes that his defense attorney Sam Bowden deliberately withheld crucial evidence that would have lightened his sentence. He studied law and sculpted his body while in jail, and is now hell-bent on taking revenge by terrorizing the Bowden family.

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship starts narrating how the Captain of his ship had led them all to self-destruction due to his obsession with hunting a white whale.  

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. is an action adventure war film which revolves around the adventures of a British Navy Captain, in the seas of Central America. Along with his crew, he battles a Spanish warship, as well as a group of Central American rebels. He also saves Lady Barbara Wellesley and falls in love with her, but she is unfortunately betrothed to someone else.

Philip Green is a widowed journalist who has just moved to New York City with his son and his mother. When a magazine publisher asks him to write an article on antisemitism, he doesn’t show much interest initially, but soon, he gets inspired to adopt a Jewish identity, so that he can write about his first-hand experiences.

Based on the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, this drama film revolves around the family of Penny Baxter, a Civil War veteran who lives and works on a farm in Florida, along with his wife Orry and his son Jody. Being their only surviving child, Jody longs for companionship, and eventually he befriends an orphaned fawn. Jody tries to convince his parents to let him adopt the animal. While Peter is supportive of his son’s new four-legged friend, his wife Orry is however not, which leads to conflicts.   

On the Beach is a science fiction film which takes us to 1964, where a third World War has caused total destruction of the World’s Northern Hemisphere, where nuclear fallout has eliminated the life of all humans. Meanwhile, survivors in Australia detect a signal coming from the West Cost of the US.  

Veteran Nazi-hunter Ezra Lieberman receives information about a group of former Nazis, led by infamous Dr. Josef Mengele, hatching some sinister plan in South America. Dr. Mengele, who has cloned Hitler 95 times, is raising them in Brazil to create the Fourth Reich. Determined to thwart the dreadful plan, Lieberman tracks down Mengele to confront him in the presence of a Hitler clone.

How the West Was Won is an epic Western film which takes us to the 19th century, and covers several events such as the Gold Rush, the Civil War, as well as the building of the railroads.

After her father is executed for shooting his wife and her lover, a half Native-American girl named Pearl, is sent to live with distant relatives in Texas. Although she is welcomed, she is met with hostility from the ranch-owner. She soon attracts the attention of Lewt, son of the ranch owner, who is lustful and unruly, but despite this, Pearl finds herself drawn physically to him as well.

A US Marshal is kidnapped by a bandit as the latter believes that he knows about the location of a hidden treasure. The US Marshal agrees to lead his gang to the treasure, but things get complicated because other groups are looking for it as well. Meanwhile, the Apache are trying to keep the secret location undisturbed.

While traveling from Moscow, writer Fedya becomes fascinated with gambling addict, the stunning Pauline Ostrovsky. When he abandons his own journey and follows her, he also decides to write a character study on gambling addicts. Unfortunately, his love for Pauline leads him down a path of gambling and crime from which he never recovers. 

Set in British East Africa, the story focuses on a fatal triangle involving an American couple and a British big game hunter. Margaret Macomber despises her husband Francis as much for his display of cowardice during the safari as for his weakness, openly flirting with their guide instead. Then Francis is shot at the back of his head by Margaret. It is now up to the jury to decide why. 

Army Captain Richard Lance is assigned the duty to protect Fort Invincible in the New Mexico territory, from a band of Apache warriors. After the Apache leader Tucsos escapes from captivity, Lance must not only defend the fort but unite the soldiers who have lost trust in him.  

After WWII, a US soldier, an influential US businessman’s son, is kidnapped by Russians from West Berlin and taken to East Berlin. Col. Steve Van Dyke, assigned to investigate the case, runs into complex conspiracies, political pressures, treachery, and dual personalities. As he digs deeper for truth, he is not sure whether he can trust even his dependable associate and ex-girlfriend, Hoffy.

Anthony Keane is an attorney who has agreed to represent Mrs. Paradine, who is being charged of murdering her wealthy husband. Due to her beauty, the lawyer finds himself quite attracted to the woman, although he has been happily married himself for eleven years. He tries to pin the crime of murder on Latour, her servant; however the plan backfires.

Arabesque is an action adventure crime film which revolves around a scheme around Hassan Jena, a prominent Middle Eastern politician. After this scheme is discovered, David Pollock, who is a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is assigned to find information that is believed to be in hieroglyphic code.

A publicly traded company is threatened by a corporate raider who seeks a hostile take-over. The patriarch of the company therefore seeks the help of his stepdaughter, as she is a lawyer, to protect his company. Meanwhile, the raider finds himself attracted to her, and tries to win her heart.  

Based on a memoir by Sheilah Graham, the film depicts the last years of novelist Scott Fitzgerald. By this time, his fame has declined and he has resorted to screenwriting to finance his daughter’s education and his wife’s stay at an asylum. The film focuses on the relationship between Fitzgerald and Graham and how she tries to keep him away from alcohol and inspire him to write his last novel.