Gregory Peck as Dr. Josef Mengele in The Boys From Brazil Gregory Peck felt that Dr. Josef Mengele was the only completely unsympathetic character he ever portrayed.

LOS ANGELES -- Gregory Peck, who embodied saintly fatherhood in "To Kill a Mockingbird" and played a range of real-life figures from Abraham Lincoln to Josef Mengele, died Thursday at 87.

LOS ANGELES — Gregory Peck, who embodied saintly fatherhood in ‘‘To Kill a Mockingbird'' and played a range of real-life figures from Abraham Lincoln to Josef Mengele, died Thursday at 87.