American legendary actor, Gregory Peck (1916-2003), was in kinship care as child.

Gregory Peck was born in La Jolla, San Diego, California. His father was a pharmacist.

When he was 5, Peck’s parents divorced & the young Gregory lived with his maternal grandmother in La Jolla. Over the next 5 years he lived only briefly with his mother in St. Louis & with his father in California.

From age 10 to 14, Gregory was sent to St John’s Military Academy, a Catholic boarding school in Los Angeles. While he was at school, his grandmother died.

From the age of 14, Gregory moved back to San Diego where he lived with his father & attended the local high school.

Gregory Peck began his acting career in 1941. He earned his first Oscar nomination for The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) & he won an Academy Award for To Kill Mockingbird (1962).

In 1999, Gregory Peck was named by the American Film Institute as the 12th greatest male screen legend of classic Hollywood cinema, and his portrayal of Atticus Finch in To Kill Mockingbird was voted the #1 greatest movie hero of all time

Photo: Gregory Peck, photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1945. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons