Gregory Peck played Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird.
Atticus Finch is a widowed lawyer and father who raises Scout and Jem in the fictional Alabama town of Maycomb. He agrees to defend Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused of assaulting a white woman, despite intense local hostility.
Peck’s performance made Atticus an enduring screen image of principled parenthood and moral courage. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role, and the film received three other Oscars, including Best Adapted Screenplay.
The movie was adapted from Harper Lee’s 1960 novel. The film’s Atticus is widely discussed as a father figure, although modern readers and critics also debate the limits of his perspective and the story’s treatment of race and justice.