The femur (/ËfiËmÉr/) (pl. femurs or femora (/ËfÉmÉrÉ/)), or thigh bone, is the most proximal (closest to the center of the body) bone of the leg in tetrapod vertebrates capable of walking or jumping, such as most land mammals, birds, many reptiles such as lizards, and amphibians such as frogs.
In the mid-1980s, he again obtained success on television as Colonel John Hannibal Smith, the cigar-chomping leader of The A-Team (1983). George Peppard died at age 65 of pneumonia on May 8, 1994 in Los Angeles, California.
By GLENN COLLINS. George Peppard, the actor who played a would-be writer smitten with Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's and was better known to younger generations as the cigar-chomping, tough-guy commander of The A-Team on television, died on Sunday at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center.