格里高利派克英文介绍

格里高利·派克(Gregory Peck，1916—2003)，美国著名影星。曾获奥斯卡最佳男主角、五度奥斯卡金像奖提名，美国演员工会奖，美国电影学院终身成就奖等。下面小编为大家整理的格里高利派克英文介绍，希望对大家有用!

格里高利派克英文介绍

June 12—The last time I saw Gregory Peck was at the opening night of “The Scarlet Pimpernel”. He was in the row behind me, and at intermission I went up to him and suggested it was an odd choice for a musical. “Can you imagine ‘Duel in the Sun’ as a musical?” I asked. He grinned and replied, with just the flicker of pretense,“I think we did it as a musical.” And they said Gregory Peck had no sense of humor!Not at all. It was dry and wry and, like lemon juice on paper, had to be held over a flame to materialize. That’s how laid-back, outta-sight it was. He knew comedy worked best when played straight, and what could be straighter than Peck’s supreme comic moment—in “Designing Woman”—telling his longtime fiancée, Dolores Gray, over a lovely Italian meal that he just got married to Lauren Bacall. Gray, drinking in all of this in a seemingly sympathetic spirit, very slowly and very much the lady, reaches across the table and dumps a plate of ravioli into Peck’s lap.His vaguely discontented deadpan masks a yelp usually achieved with dog whistles.“George Burns used to call it the funniest take he ever saw on the screen,” Peck was proud to tell me.Unfortunately, Peck rarely got a chance to play the comedy card. The reason? Well, look at him. It has been said that Gregory Peck—handsome as they ever came—embodied the best in all of us. He gave idealism a good name, made it seem possible in the flawed state of this human condition.

In a very reel way, he was a prisoner of his good works and looks. Whenever he went against type and attempted a baddie—the obsessed Ahab of “Moby Dick”or the crazed Hitler-cloner in “The Boys From Brazil”—he looked a little like Abraham Lincoln with a hot foot. It was as unsettling, and unconvincing, as watching Spencer Tracy attempt Harry Hyde in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”.Basic goodness will out. But an actor must push—or else what’s an envelope for? Peck was up for challenges. He even let it be known, presumably because of his idealism, that he would be open to the “Man of La Mancha” film. “So far,” he said dryly, “they haven’t been breaking down my door.”

The Right Instincts

What Peck did best, he did better than anybody. He came, made to order, from a heroic mold—a leader by right of charisma—fighting the good fight, inspiring men to follow him.In a word: Atticus. It is hard to imagine another actor with the towering integrity and noble bearing that Peck invested in “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Throughout Horton Foote’s screen adaptation of the Harper Lee novel, all focus was on Atticus Finch, the Dixie lawyer who defended a black man unjustly accused of rape by festering white trash. The deck was decidedly stacked, and even Peck said it’s easy to win an Oscar when everyone is saying good things about you. But the truth is Peck made us believe the goodness.It turns out to be a tough quality to make stick, and there are other Atticus antecedents that were only slightly less successful than “Mockingbird” at garnering him the Oscar.To name names: Gen. Frank Savage in “Twelve O’Clock High”, a wing commander who eventually crumbles from the weight of having to send young flyboys to their deaths; Phil Green in “Gentleman’s Agreement”, a freelance journalist getting his story by passing for Jewish (the film dates badly, and Elia Kazan who won an Oscar for it, asks that it be excluded from his retrospectives); Father Francis Chisholm in “The Keys of the Kingdom”, an earnest Catholic missionary in chaotic China, and “Penny” Baxter in “The Yearling”, a warmhearted Florida farmer whose son adopts a disruptive fawn.

Peck always contended that the boy cried too much in “The Yearling”, but later he saw some Finch foreshadowing in that father role. “You could say if circumstances had been different and he had a chance for an education, he might have become an Atticus Finch,”Peck noted. “He had the same instincts—solid American virtues and values, respect for God and country and justice—but, unfortunately, he happened to be an uneducated backwoodsman.”“I felt that way about another character that I played—Johnny Ringo in ‘The Gunfighter’. Basically, this was an intelligent man, but he grew up in a territory where there was little or no law and got into scrapes. Because he had good eye—and hand-coordination, he killed a bunch of guys who would have killed him if he hadn’t killed them first, so he got tagged as a gunslinger. He wanted to put all that behind him.”“But, of course, there’s always some punk who tries to outdraw him. In the end, he gets killed, but I always felt that character, had he had a chance at an education, could have been governor of Texas.”An overlooked masterpiece from director Henry King, “The Gunfighter” contains one of Peck’s finest performances. He thought so much of it that he turned down “High Noon” to do it.

Class act

I have one favorite Peck moment, from his lesser movie—one on the Spanish Civil War battlefield in“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”. Peck is yelling full-out for stretcher-bearers while Ava Gardner dies in his arms.Instinct was one of Peck’s best traits as an actor. He put high value on it and liked to watch it in other actors. Walter Huston, with whom he co-starred in “Duel in the Sun” and “The Great Sinner”, received his greatest scrutiny.“He was kind of my ideal as an American actor,”Peck said. “I thought he was the best. I like to see men act who are men and who are interesting because they are men. I like to watch them behave. I’m not so keen on acting where you completely obliterate yourself in every role. That’s a nice craft—I have a certain admiration for it—I certainly admire somebody like Alec Guinness—but when it comes to watching somebody, I’d much rather watch an interesting man than a versatile actor.”“I like to watch Clint Eastwood. He interests me because of the things that he does, how he copes, how he handles himself. I’m more interested in the man than in the actor.”Gregory Peck, in the last almost-60 years, gave us a lot to watch, and, lucky for us, he left a lot of it on film. Throughout, he remained true to his credo—which was advice that Walter Huston had given him early on:“Give’em a good show, and always travel first class.”That surely was Gregory Peck: a class actor.