This classic star of Hollywood's Golden Era is cherished for his portrayal of a progressive southern lawyer. Can you remember his name?

One of the all-time Hollywood greats, Gregory Peck (1916-2003) represented for many the ideal of a morally courageous yet masculine everyman (in a matinee idol package). He is remembered most of all for his beloved, Oscar-winning portrayal of Atticus Finch in the film adaptation of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (1962), which the American Film Institute named the greatest film hero of the past 100 years in 2003. Peck, who had said that the part of Finch was "the closest to the real me" he ever played, died two weeks after receiving the honor. Peck's own decency earned him the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and the US Presidential Medal of Freedom. Politically progressive, he took an active part in anti-war protests, workers' rights and civil rights movements.

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