This is an AUTHENTIC HAND SIGNED ORIGINAL Vintage 8"x 10" B W photo of American actor
GREGORY PECK in the film "CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER" featuring his autograph. Captain Horatio Hornblower (a.k.a.
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. in the UK, "R.N." standing for "Royal Navy") is a 1951 British-American naval
swashbuckling war film in
Technicolor from
Warner Bros., produced by Gerry Mitchell, directed by
Raoul Walsh, that stars
Gregory Peck,
Virginia Mayo,
Robert Beatty and
Terence Morgan. The film is based on three of
C. S. Forester's
Horatio Hornblower novels:
The Happy Return (
Beat to Quarters in the United States),
A Ship of the Line, and
Flying Colours. Forester is credited with the screen adaptation.
Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor. He was one of the most popular
film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. Peck received five nominations for
Academy Award for Best Actor and won once – for his performance as
Atticus Finch in the 1962 drama film
To Kill a Mockingbird. Peck's other Oscar-nominated roles are in
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944),
The Yearling (1946),
Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and
Twelve O'Clock High (1949).
Other notable films in which he appeared include Spellbound (1945), The Gunfighter (1950), Roman Holiday (1953), Moby Dick (1956, and its 1998 mini-series), The Big Country (1958), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Cape Fear (1962, and its 1991 remake), How the West Was Won (1962), The Omen (1976), and The Boys from Brazil (1978). U.S. President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among Greatest Male Stars of Classic Hollywood cinema, ranking him at No. 12.