Article: PECK'S GOOD BOY THE MAN-OF-VIRTUE IMAGE STICKS TO THE STAR OF `TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD'.(Spotlight)

Byline: Paula Nechak New York Times News Service

Actor Gregory Peck, who has played the dignified, upright leading man in a career that spans nearly 50 years of movies, is humorously - if rightly - bewildered.

The 81-year-old star has just returned home after two weeks in Australia to inquiries from Fox News and the Associated Press regarding his well-being. Peck, who is speaking via phone from Los Angeles, laughs. ``There's a rumor going around that I'm not so fine. I'm in good health, so I don't know how it got started,'' he says.

After losing Robert Mitchum and Jimmy Stewart recently, the world may have reason to be fearful. Peck is truly ...

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