“It woke me up and made me a human being.” He tired of chemistry and physics, switched majors to English literature, ran track, and set the tempo as stroke on the university's crew. “Berkeley became home to me,” Peck told Berkeley Magazine many years later. He accepted his father's challenge to better himself and got good grades at San Diego State before transferring to the University of California at Berkeley in the fall of 1936 as a premedical student. Peck drove an oil truck, made some money, and bought himself a Ford Roadster. “I was pretty much on my own,” he later told a Chicago Tribune interviewer. Living from age fourteen with his father, who worked nights, Peck was a poor student at San Diego High School. At one point he considered the priesthood but “recovered from it” ( Conversation). John's Military College, a Catholic boarding school in Los Angeles.
Peck remembers “finding family” in actors and “the stories they told.” It was an antidote to “loneliness” ( Gregory Peck: His Own Man).Īt age ten Peck was trundled off to St. There Kate Ayres introduced her grandson to his lifelong love for the movies. For four years young Peck “bounced about” among his mother's rooming house in Saint Louis, Missouri, his father's apartment in San Diego, and his maternal grandmother's home in La Jolla. The couple argued over Peck's reluctance to push customers for unpaid bills, separated when their son was two, and divorced when he was six. Later explaining his name “Eldred,” which he disliked, Peck commented that his mother, “looking for something different, picked my name from a phone book, and found it” ( A Conversation with Gregory Peck).
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Peck, Gregory ( 05 April 1916–12 June 2003), movie actor, was born Eldred Gregory Peck in the La Jolla section of San Diego, California, the son of Gregory Pearl Peck, a pharmacist of Irish descent, and Bernice Ayres Peck.
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