Peck's rare attempts at villainous roles were not acclaimed. Early on, he played the renegade son in the Western "Duel in the Sun", and, later in his career, the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele in "The Boys from Brazil" co-starring Laurence Olivier. In the 1980s, Peck moved to television, where he starred in the mini-series "The Blue and the Gray", playing Abraham Lincoln. He also starred with Christopher Plummer, John Gielgud, and Barbara Bouchet in the television film "The Scarlet and The Black", about Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a real-life Catholic priest in the Vatican who smuggled Jews and other refugees away from the Nazis during World War II.