Academy Award Best Actor · birth-card coordinate

Gregory Peck's Birth Card: The 3 of Spades

1963 Best Actor — To Kill a Mockingbird

Born April 5, 1916

Died June 12, 2003

The Sorrowful Truth

A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Academy Award.

In the record

Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for April 5 is the 3 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1963 Best Actor — To Kill a Mockingbird win.

Academy Award record

The 3 of Spades coordinate

Gregory Peck's birthday maps to the 3 of Spades (The Sorrowful Truth). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on Gregory Peck. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue.

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Gregory Peck in the public record

He was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck the 12th-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. After studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner, Peck began appearing in stage productions, acting in more than 50 plays and three Broadway productions. He first gained critical success in The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), a John M. Stahl–directed drama that earned him his first Academy Award nomination. He starred in a series of successful films, including romantic-drama The Valley of Decision (1945), Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) and family film The Yearling (1946). He encountered lukewarm commercial reviews at the end of the 1940s, his performances including The Paradine Case (1947) and The Great Sinner (1948). Peck reached global recognition in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing back-to-back in the book-to-film adaptation of Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) and biblical drama David and Bathsheba (1951).

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Gregory Peck (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 9 of Hearts

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Gregory Peck, and not a forecast of an Oscar.

Cards in Gregory Peck's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.

You stay kind without picking up what is not yours. You're wired for a love that extends beyond the personal—compassion for people, causes, and the world. You feel others' pain as your own and are moved to ease it. At your best, you carry deep wisdom about what to hold and what to release.

9♥ — Life Spread — Mercury, fixed to the 3♠, from the published 9 of Hearts meaning

In 1983 he starred opposite Christopher Plummer in The Scarlet and The Black as Hugh O'Flaherty, a Catholic priest who saved thousands of escaped Allied POWs and Jewish people in Rome during the Second World War.

Paired on shared wording: people, world. This line comes from the Mercury position of the 3♠'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

  1. He starred alongside Ava Gardner in The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) and Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday (1953).
  2. Other notable films in which he appeared include Moby Dick (1956, and its 1998 mini-series), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Cape Fear (1962, and its 1991 remake), The Omen (1976) and The Boys from Brazil (1978).
  3. Throughout his career he often portrayed protagonists with "moral fiber".
  4. Gentleman's Agreement (1947) centered on topics of antisemitism, whilst Peck's character in Twelve O'Clock High (1949) dealt with the challenges of military leadership and post-traumatic stress disorder during World War II.

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FAQ

What is Gregory Peck's birth card?
The 3 of Spades. April 5 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict an Oscar?
No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
Where do Gregory Peck's dates come from?
Birth date 1916-04-05 is the day-precision date on Gregory Peck's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: Oscars.org (AMPAS ceremony record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Best Actor list, Best Actress list, Gregory Peck) + Wikidata CC0 (Q108366). Birth date 1916-04-05 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).