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American actor Gregory Peck had an extensive career in film, television, radio, and on stage. His breakthrough role was as a Catholic priest who attempts to start a mission in China in the 1944 film The Keys of the Kingdom, for which he received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In the late 1940s, Peck received three more Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, for his roles as a caring father in The Yearling (1946), a journalist who pretends to be Jewish to write an exposé on American antisemitism in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and a brave airman in Twelve O'Clock High (1949). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Atticus Finch (pictured), a lawyer attempting to exonerate a black man wrongly accused of rape, in the courtroom drama To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). The role topped the AFI's 50 Greatest Screen Heroes. Peck made his television debut in 1982 by appearing as President Abraham Lincoln in the miniseries The Blue and the Gray. (Full list...)