Gregory Peck, Oscar winner as 'Mockingbird's' Finch, dies at 87

Friday, June 13, 2003

LOS ANGELES -- Gregory Peck, who embodied saintly fatherhood in "To Kill a Mockingbird" and played a range of real-life figures from Abraham Lincoln to Josef Mengele, died Thursday at 87.

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