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Gregory Peck Dies at 87
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Gregory Peck Dies at 87
Thu, Jun 12, 2003, 11:06 AM PT

HOLLYWOOD (Zap2it.com) -- Academy Award-winner Gregory Peck, the handsome star who's one of the last actors from Hollywood's Golden Age of the '40s, died Wednesday night (June 11) at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. with his wife, Veronique, at his side. He was 87.

"She was with him, holding his hand, and he just went to sleep," says longtime friend Monroe Friedman to The Associated Press. "He had just been getting older and more fragile. He wasn't really ill. He just sort of ran his course and died of old age."

For the past decade, as his film career wound down, he attended many charity events and leant his name to altruistic causes such as the American Cancer Society, the American Film Institute, National Endowment for the Arts and AIDS causes.

He often attributed his longevity to his wife, Veronique, who has been married to him for 48 years and with whom he has two children, including actor Tony Peck. Veronique, was a reporter from Paris who met him at an interview. He also has three children to a previous marriage to Greta Rice. Peck's son Jon, a TV reporter, committed suicide in 1975.

Peck toyed with political aspirations, but never ran for office, except for as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences which he led in 1967, and he made the decision to delay the Oscars the next year when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

Peck is known for his charm with Audrey Hepburn's debut in "Roman Holiday," his machismo in films like "Moby Dick" and his diversity, playing roles in the 1962 scary film "Cape Fear" and later in a cameo of the 1991 version.

But, his appeal was as an Everyman character who would find himself in incredible situations, such as the amnesia victim accused of murder in Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound," the man discriminated against for wrongly being labeled Jewish in the Oscar-winning 1947 film "Gentleman's Agreement" and his best actor win as lawyer Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mocking Bird."

Nominated five times for an Oscar, he also received the Academy's Jean Hersholt humanitarian award in 1968 and insisted, "I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in."

His career began in "Days of Glory" in 1944 and he has played roles as different as Abraham Lincoln in the TV series "The Blue and the Grey," Nazi doctor Josef Mengele in "The Boys from Brazil" and King David in "David and Bathsheba.

He bounced between romances and family films such as "The Yearling" to action war films such as "Twelve O'Clock High."

The 6-foot-3 actor last appeared in a TV version of "Moby Dick" in 1998.

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