Atticus Finch was no simple hero, it's Gregory Peck who made him look like one The Atticus of To Kill a Mockingbird is far more complex than the Atticus of the film version, when you account for ...

Last Thursday, Gregory Peck, the actor who played Atticus, died at the age of 87. Atticus Finch is the widowed small-town lawyer who defends a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in To ...

“Is Atticus Finch a racist?” USA Today asks in a headline for the review of “Go Set a Watchman.”Answer: No, he’s a fictional character who went through a rewrite process.The version of ...

Gregory Peck's "To Kill a Mockingbird" script sold for $84,375 at auction on Feb. 23. Peck portrayed lawyer Atticus Finch in the movie adaptation of the bestselling Harper Lee novel, for which he ...

Gregory Peck played beloved father Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, and according to his children, the Oscar-winning actor wasn’t too far off the mark in real life. “Of all the children in the ...

Gregory Peck played beloved father Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, and according to his children, the Oscar-winning actor wasn’t too far off the mark in real life.

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in the 1962 film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird Universal Studios via Getty Images. For decades, the late actor Gregory Peck has captivated audiences with his ...

Gregory Peck played beloved father Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, and according to his children, the Oscar-winning actor wasn’t too far off the mark in real life.

It did so, however, in a matter quite conventional: Atticus Finch was the white savior, a good white liberal whose ethics and values compelled him to defend a black man who had been falsely ...