George Peppard | |
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Born | Detroit, Michigan, U.S. | October 1, 1928
Died | May 8, 1994 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 65)
Education | Purdue University Carnegie Mellon University (BFA) |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1951–1994 |
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Children | 3 |
George Peppard (/pəˈpɑːrd/; October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994) was an American actor. He secured a major role as struggling writer Paul Varjak when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and later portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964). On television, he played the title role of millionaire insurance investigator and sleuth Thomas Banacek in the early-1970s mystery series Banacek. He played Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, the cigar-smoking leader of a renegade commando squad in the 1980s action television series The A-Team.[1]