Gregory Peck(1916-2003)

In 1996 veteran character actor Richard Jaeckel, Peck's co-star in The Gunfighter (1950), was diagnosed with cancer, and his wife had Alzheimer's disease. The Jaeckels had lost their Brentwood home and were over $1 million in debt, leaving them basically homeless. His family tried unsuccessfully to place him in the Motion Picture and Television Country Home and Hospital. Once Peck lobbied for Jaeckel's admittance, he was treated within three days. Jaeckel stayed in the hospital until his death on 6/14/97.

[when he discovered that his second wife, French journalist Veronique Peck, had passed up an opportunity to interview Albert Schweitzer at a lunch hosted by Jean-Paul Sartre in order to go out on a date with Peck] You made the right choice, kiddo!