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To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American coming-of-age legal drama crime film directed by Robert Mulligan starring Gregory Peck and Mary Badham, with Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, James Anderson, and Brock Peters in supporting roles. It marked the film debut of Robert Duvall, William Windom, and Alice Ghostley.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by the American author Harper Lee. It was published in July 1960 and became instantly successful. In the United States, it is widely read in high schools and middle schools. To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize a year after its release, and it has become a classic of modern American literature.
1962: Year that the To Kill a Mockingbird movie was released, starring Gregory Peck and Robert Duvall. 1961: Year that Harper Lee won a Pulitzer Prize for To Kill a Mockingbird. 1960:
Mary Badham (born October 7, 1952) is an American actress who portrayed Jean Louise "Scout" Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. [1]
Premiering in theaters on Dec. 25, 1962, To Kill a Mockingbird was rapturously received by critics and audiences, and went on to earn eight Oscar nominations including a Best Supporting Actress ...
Atticus Finch is a fictional character and the protagonist of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird.A preliminary version of the character also appears in the novel Go Set a Watchman, written in the mid-1950s but not published until 2015.
Richard Thomas stars as Atticus Finch in the national touring company of "To Kill a Mockingbird." But he gets lots of help from a superb cast.
This led to his being cast as Charles Baker "Dill" Harris in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird. The character was based on writer Truman Capote, a childhood friend and later associate of Harper Lee, the author of the original novel. [citation needed]