# Gregory Peck has passed on

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gregory-peck-has-passed-on/181400>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 12, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gregory-peck-has-passed-on/181400 "2003-06-12T18:25:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gregory-peck-has-passed-on/181400/1 "2003-06-12T18:25:02Z")

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I’m so sad…

[http://abcnews.go.com/sections/entertainment/WorldNewsTonight/peck030612.html](http://abcnews.go.com/sections/entertainment/WorldNewsTonight/peck030612.html)

It is a dark day in American movie history.

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gregory-peck-has-passed-on/181400/2 "2003-06-12T18:54:09Z")

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I see.

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=190340](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=190340)

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**Author:** ![dal\_timgar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@dal\_timgar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dal_timgar)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gregory-peck-has-passed-on/181400/3 "2003-06-12T20:02:44Z")

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I recently saw a TV program of the top 100 movie heroes and villains. He won #1 hero for Aticus in TO KILL A MOCKINGBRD.

Until next time.

I think the system works on reincarnation.

Dal Timgar

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gregory-peck-has-passed-on/181400/4 "2003-06-12T20:27:07Z")

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Predictable, but very sad nonetheless.

We just watched Mockingbird on DVD the other night for the umpteenth time. T’was just as good as the first. I expect TCM or some station will air a collection of his stuff soon. He will be missed.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gregory-peck-has-passed-on/181400/5 "2003-06-12T22:04:11Z")

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To me, he was the epitome of what it meant to be a real man; low key and hard as a rock underneath. I imagine that he’d be one of very few people who could convince me to believe just about anything he wanted, by the passion of his own conviction and that voice out of the bottom of a well.

I clearly remember wanting him to be MY dad when I was a kid.