The Omen: Gregory Peck’s Charcoal Pinstripe Suit

Gregory Peck in The Omen (1976) Vitals Gregory Peck as Robert Thorn, American diplomat Rome, June 6, 1970 and London, June 1975 Film: The Omen Release Date: June 6, 1976 Director: Richard Donner Wardrobe Supervisor: Tiny Nicholls WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background The Omen was released fifty years ago today on June 6, 1976—a date intentionally selected to mirror the film’s opening on June 6th at 6 a.m., when American ambassador Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) rushes through Rome to reach his wife Katherine (Lee Remick). Robert arrives to learn that the child Katherine has just delivered died moments after birth, but hospital chaplain Father Spiletto (Martin Benson) convinces him to secretly adopt a newborn orphan and raise the boy as their own without Katherine’s knowledge. Unfortunately for Robert, Katherine, and the world at large, that boy is Damien—the Antichrist—but I suppose you’ll have that when someone’s birth is the infamous 6-6-6: the “Number of the Beast” described in the Book…