Dirk Benedict

Dirk Benedict is an American movie, television and stage actor who played the characters Lieutenant Templeton Faceman Peck in The ATeam television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series. He is the author of Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy and And Then We Went Fishing.

Benedict was born Dirk Niewoehner in Helena, Montana, the son of Priscilla Mella , an accountant, and George Edward Niewoehner, a lawyer. He grew up in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. He graduated from Whitman College in 1967. Benedict allegedly chose his stage name from a serving of Eggs Benedict he had enjoyed prior to his acting career.

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