Which 1962 film featured Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch?

Which 1962 film featured Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch? The answer is To Kill a Mockingbird.

Directed by Robert Mulligan, the film adapts Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Peck plays Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama who defends Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. The story is largely seen through the eyes of Atticus’s young daughter, Scout.

Peck’s performance became inseparable from the character. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and Harper Lee later said that “the man and the part met,” reflecting how closely Peck’s qualities seemed to match Atticus’s moral seriousness. The film also won Oscars for its screenplay and black-and-white art direction.

A common mix-up is confusing the film with the novel: both share the title To Kill a Mockingbird, while the 1962 movie is the screen adaptation. The film was nominated for Best Picture and entered the National Film Registry in 1995. In 2003, the American Film Institute named Peck’s Atticus the greatest movie hero of the 20th century.