As a young stage actor in New York during the 1940s, Gregory Peck made the leap ... director John Huston said of casting Peck as Captain Ahab in his adaptation of Herman Melville’s classic ...

It has the grand spectacle of old-school Hollywood adventure movies, while Gregory Peck brings the appropriate gravitas to Captain Ahab. Moby Dick is the perfect follow-up movie to In the Heart of ...

Gregory Peck, the Oscar- winning star whose roles have ranged from the obsessed Captain Ahab in “Moby Dick” to the honorable Atticus Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” will present “A ...

Academy Award winner Gregory Peck, one of Hollywood’s best ... s son in “Duel in the Sun” (1946), the obsessed Captain Ahab in “Moby Dick” (1956) and Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele ...

If there was one constant to Gregory Peck’s 50-year movie career ... as the monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Stomping around on his peg leg, squinting and aaarrrrghing, and bellowing in that ...

Gregory Peck, a La Jolla native who co-founded the ... In films, Peck took a big gamble as tortured Captain Ahab in John Huston’s “Moby Dick” (1956). In the majority opinion it did not ...

Oscar-winning actor Gregory Peck, the handsome Hollywood leading ... and he played a rare villainous role as Captain Ahab in John Huston’s 1956 movie version at the height of his career.

GREGORY PECK was considered one of Hollywood’s ... No one can forget his chilling performance as Captain Ahab in “Moby Dick” (1956). Originally a Broadway actor and then a contract actor ...